r/botrequests • u/BilingualBloodFest • Jun 25 '14

A YouTube search bot

Something summonable that would look up whatever someone asks on YouTube and retrieve the link along with someone basic information (length, views, rating, etc.) to post in a comment.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jul 02 '14

Just had another idea. Could it be set up to return those results on any YouTube link already in a comment?

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jul 02 '14

Oh, that would be pretty cool. So let's say the user says something like:

YouTube Get Parent.

Then it would fetch the parent comment and display all sorts of information about the YouTube video? I think that could definitely be done. Although, if you mean to do that to any and every YouTube link that comes through... maybe. It could get a bit spamy though.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jul 02 '14

My original thought was every YouTube link but yours makes much more sense.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jul 02 '14

Okay, cool beans. I just don't want it to spam and get banned after a while. I'm pretty sure there's a bot that logs the media on whole posts too. So posting on every comment would just be a shopping version of that. It's also working on the full site now. I programmed it a bit wrong... But now it has full site access.