Today I welcome a new bot into our little world.

Have you ever had the need to write "did you google it" before?

@lmgtfy will turn your comment into a lmgtfy search.

Just tag @lmgtfy and any text afterwards will be added to a search term. (Excluding emojis - because reasons)

So @lmgtfy how do I do my python homework? 🙏

@C0D4
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Beautiful.

@Stuxnet is going to have a field day with this

This inspires me to bring face detection to devRant as a bot.

@sweetnothings 🤔that would be easy to add, but do we really want a SO bot?

@AleCx04 him and @Jilano will enjoy it.

Awaits @rutee07's creative comments

@Stuxnet
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@AleCx04 you fuckin right I will lol

Saves me the effort of having to do it myself lmao

@Stuxnet

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

@rutee07
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@rutee07
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@rutee07
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@rutee07
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@lmgtfy is @rutee07 pushing you hard enough?

@C0D4
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@rutee07
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@lmgtfy a

@lmgtfy b

@lmgtfy c

@rutee07
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https://lmgtfy.com/?q=&ovr=1&pp=1p;ovr=1&pp=1

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=c&ovr=1&pp=1p;ovr=1&pp=1

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=b&ovr=1&pp=1p;ovr=1&pp=1

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=a&ovr=1&pp=1p;ovr=1&pp=1

@C0D4
No, no we do not. 😆 The "programming via SO" cancer needs a cure, not a cult.

@lmgtfy @lmgtfy lmgtfy

@SortOfTested
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@SortOfTested i didnt test that 👌

and you're right, SO belongs in SO.

@C0D4
Turns out, you're as good as you thought you were 😋

@Jilano
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@C0D4
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This one is kinda dumb. Just does string concatenation and parameter encoding? Big deal.

But everyone knows I'm not a big fan of bots so what do I matter

@sweetnothings ah... that went straight over my head. But do we really need a bot for that?

@AlgoRythm its nothing special no, it just takes the effort out of making a link for lmgtfy, not everyone will have a use for it and that's fine, it was more for me to mess with the API's and to stop making links.

@sweetnothings I don't think that's a gif 🤔I'll have to have a look when I'm on my laptop again.

I have a suggestion. Could a keyword like @OP take the original rant as the input so it's easy to find out where it was copied from.

Now how about a non-Google version...

@linuxxx 😅lmddgtfy?

@C0D4 I know something like this exists already yeah....

@linuxxx apparently not, but I'm sure I can convince @lmddgtfy to play nicely.

@C0D4 Oh no it does, I've used it; https://lmddgtfy.net ;)

@linuxxx oh, they have their own 🤷‍♂️
Suppose I can port most of this code into a wrapper and build on top for 2 bots.

Lmgtfy has a DDG version too.

https://lmgtfy.com//...

@rutee07 she'll play later.

@rutee07 my hero

@sweetnothings not without bringing in some screen capture and going from there.

I like the idea, but taking this to something like selenium to be able to record the screen seems overkill.

@lmgtfy do you still work?

@C0D4
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@lmddgtfy are you here with us too?

@C0D4
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@linuxxx now has a friendly bot at his disposal.

@C0D4
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@C0D4
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Where are all these bots hosted btw?

@billgates at the moment they are running on my RPI while I keep tabs on them, I'll migrate the code up to my VPS through the week when i'm satisfied they can handle the mayhem this place will probably create using them over the next few days.

For the sake of transparency the only data collected from the apis is the comment body, the username, the rant and comment id's for reposting back to the correct rant.

Everything else is ignored.

@C0D4 so you anyway have a cloud server like AWS? or like @linuxxx personal servers running 24/7?

@billgates I have a Rpi running 24/7, but I do a have cloud based vps.

Test @lmgtfy gay

@FuckTS
https://lmgtfy.com//...

@MarcoCeccon
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@MarcoCeccon you're into some kinky shit right there.

@lmgtfy ⠇⠕⠇⠕⠅ ⠛⠁⠽

@010001111
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doesn’t work

@lmgtfy ⠥⠝⠊⠉⠕⠙⠑ will not defeat me 😎

@C0D4
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@010001111 thanks for playing.

@lmgtfy hello @lmgtfy goodbye

@nnee
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@lmgtfy @lmddgtfy @lmgtfy @lmddgtfy

@eeee
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@eeee
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@Ranchu
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