Update: To add or remove women’s game’s, you now need to add -w
to the command. E.g. -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool
or -remove -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool
This is due to edge cases where men’s and women’s team share name and play against the same opponent on the same day. Women’s match thread will also be marked with [Women’s game] in the title.
As some of you may have seen, the community now has a match thread bot to help with automating creation and updating match threads.
The bot takes a request in the format -football football@lemmy.world Barcelona - Real Madrid
and will look up to 6 days ahead for an upcoming match and add it to a queue. ~15 minutes before kick off it will make a post that it will continuously update with available score, stats and commentary.
To make a request you can either tag the bot or reply to one of the bot’s comments. See the comments for an interaction example.
The bot will work in any community federated with lemmy.world so if you want to create a live thread in e.g. c/gunners you could make a request like this -football gunners@lemmy.world Arsenal - Tottenham Hotspur
Do note that the bot requires approval from a mod or admin to post in a community. So unless you’re a mod/admin, you’ll need to ask them to approve the bot via -mod_action whitelist gunners@lemmy.world
or become a trusted user that can bypass the block -mod_action trust username
.com gunners .world
For a more detailed and technical overview of the bot’s capabilities, please check the readme in the gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/UlrikHD/lemmy-match-thread-bot
Example output of a live thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/18633476
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‘No live game found, wrong team names?’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Biggleswade fc Away Team: Canvey island
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
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‘No live game found, wrong team names?’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Man city Away Team: Brighton
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Swansea City - Bristol City
Please don’t spam football requests as we don’t want to drown the sub with inactive live threads. If you make a request, you should preferably be active in the live thread.
Sorry. I was curious as to what it could pick up match wise. Did not mean any harm.
It’s fine, just nipping it in the bud before it gets too much.
The bot can cover all games that espn covers here: https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Ipswich Town - Aston Villa
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football AS Monaco - Montpellier HSC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Match-up Date Women’s game norwich city - leeds united 2024-10-01T18:45:00Z False -queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Match-up Date Women’s game ipswich town - aston villa 2024-09-29T13:00:00Z False swansea city - bristol city 2024-09-29T14:00:00Z False manchester united - tottenham hotspur 2024-09-29T15:30:00Z False norwich city - leeds united 2024-10-01T18:45:00Z False
@[email protected] -football Bologna - Atalanta
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Barnsley - Stockport Country FC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
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‘No live game found, wrong team names?’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Norwich city Away Team: Hull city
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
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‘Derby county - Norwich city is more than 2 hours old.’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Derby county Away Team: Norwich city
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Norwich city - Leeds United
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Osasuna - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue
Unknown request, please reply with
-help
for a list of available commands.Reason given:
No arguments were given for queue command.
This is a really neat bot, I hope c/football has enough traffic to create some good discussion in the match threads!
Great, thanks!
I like how we’re the example and I didn’t even know about this bot till now. Might consider using this. Does it do women’s football as well?
If the game is casted on espn it is supported, which should be most professional leagues.
Hmmm, don’t see our next UWCL game on there. Maybe cuz it’s qualifiers still.
This is their espn page https://www.espn.com/soccer/team?id=19973
I can see they got a game lined up 22. September, close to the bottom of the score page
Edit:
yeah, no, we’ve a game on Wednesday too.