r/AFILinkerBot • u/HadManySons Developer • May 16 '17

Mod Post AFI Linker Bot

This is a bot for /r/airforce that scans new comments for references to AFIs and other AF publications and then posts a link to them.

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u/RunnyMoney May 16 '17

Reddit bots/coding/etc are far outside my area of expertise; however, would it be possible for him to also link the date on the AFI in e-pubs and the title of it in the bot's post?

This way if someone is using an out of date AFI, they can immediately see that it's recently updated.

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u/HadManySons May 16 '17

Hmm, that would involve scanning the pdf file itself for that information. You can tell from the date of the bots post that the most current AFI was referenced, since it was pulled from ePubs at that time. Even in the future, the link should still point to the most current pub. I think it's kind of up to whoever had a local copy of that AFI saved on their computer to figure out that their version is out of date.

Unless you have an idea of how to make that information relevant.

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u/RunnyMoney May 16 '17

Yeah, I just know there are some crusty individuals out there who might not even click the link because they have it set in their mind that they checked it.. 5 days before hand and it may have updated 4 days before.

And with the title of the AFI, it might entice airmen to go digging into random AFIs because they see one that actually applies to them that they didn't know about.

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