Game Deals @compuverse.uk Cameron @compuverse.uk 1y ago

Plans - Deal Bot

For new subscribers to this community, I plan to write a bot which will automatically find and post deals (likely using the fantastic resource that is https://isthereanydeal.com!)

So hopefully we'll soon have awesome deals being posted here automatically :D

EDIT: The bot is live: /u/gamedealsbot!

At present, this is pulling data from yesthereisadeal.com

I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!

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Any chance you'd publish your bot code? I'd like to do similar with she content relevant to some other interests.
- The bot code is SUPER nasty right now, lots of hardcoded URLs and stuff atm.
  
  I plan to generalise it and then I'll likely throw it on my GitHub! https://github.com/CameronRedmore
  
  I'll let you know once it's up there :)
  
  Given the majority of your repo are in Java, I guess your bot is written in Java as well? As a Java guy, I'd love to help! Cheers 👍🏻
  
  That would be great, thanks :)
Oh this is awesome. Losing /r/GameDeals is one of the things I'll miss most about Reddit.

This group here will help soffen that blow :)
Love this idea, would be much appreciated. Thanks!
- The first version of this bot is now live! I've got many more plans for it in future, but I think I've got a good proof of concept working now :)
  
  I saw that! I dig it so far. Not even sure if this is possible but I was wondering if there was a way to put the Metacritic or Opencritic score on the post and add filtering by score?
  
  I saw you were able to snag when the game was historic low which was pretty cool too. Filtering for those things would be really neat.
BTW, are there any plans to provide prices in USD/EUR too?
- This is a great point! At present I'm using a UK dataset, but I could likely cross reference with the datasets from other regions and try to find the price in those too. Maybe give prices like [£5/$6/€5.50] or something!
  
  I'll have a look and see what I can do :)
  
  Wow, I noticed the prices in different currencies. Fantastic work!
  
  I've got one question: since the community is rather small, would it be possible to enable the downvote button? I'm not certain if this is a site-wide setting or not.
  
  This would allow us to weigh "good deals" vs "okay deals" vs "shovelware"... which means more relevant deals will rise to the top and would probably attract more people (creating a positive feedback loop)
Sounds wonderful! Take a look at Wario64’s twitter page. The deals he posts are always super fast.
Another random thought: Can we increase the title limit (200 characters)?

I'd posted a "low effort" (bundle) [https://beehaw.org/post/577245], but needed to cut some content in the title due to the 200 character limit.
- I don't know if this is something that is possible to do unfortunately. It's not something I've seen available in any of the settings and such I'm afraid :(

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