Hi all, I’m not sure where I should post.

The mod team at mma@kbin.social uses this account to run a bot found here: https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt

What this bot does, it is uses karma criteria on reddit, to grab the links of the best breaking news in the MMA world and automatically post it on here.

It allows our users to catch all the breaking news without having to use Reddit.

We are now getting an incorrect_login error. The previous bot maker is MIA and has left the project.

We lost almost all of our users the last time lemmy prevented this account from posting in some kind of bot purge or something. We got posting privileges back awhile back, but now we are afraid we are going to lose the rest of our users.

Having the bot being able to post breaking news is absolutely crucial for us. Can anyone help?

  • MMARefugee@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    After suggested change:

    PS C:\Users***********\Botlt> npm install

    npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

    npm ERR! path C:\Users********\Botlt/package.json

    npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected token ““” (0x201C) in JSON at position 976 while parsing near “… "lemmy-js-client": “^0.19.0”,\r\n "lin…”

    npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse JSON data.

    npm ERR! JSON.parse Note: package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.


    I went back in and changed it to:

    "lemmy-js-client": "^0.19.0-rc.1",
    

    It will now run again, but same incorrect_login error.

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      9 months ago

      I think that’s part of the solution, I skimmed some of the forks and found one that updated the lemmy-js-client to 0.19.2-alpha.3 but they made some code changes too to the authentication code. So maybe trying that fork is worth a shot: https://github.com/thepaperpilot/BotIt

      Last changes were last month on that fork

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        9 months ago

        Thanks so much for your help.

        I am not programmer, and I didn’t even realize there was a fork. Let me root around in there and see what I can find out tomorrow.

        Thanks again.