Creative online bots

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My bots Botwiki.org Botmaking guide Botmakers.org

A tinted collage screenshot of a donations table in Google Sheets overlaid with a post from a bot summarizing the total amount of donations.
Making a Mastodon bot with Google Sheets and Apps Scripts article

A quick walkthrough on how to set up a Mastodon bot that posts data from a spreadsheet.

πŸ“… 2 days ago

The phrase β€œIGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS” repeating over and over, in all caps.
Ignore all previous instructions project

Ignore all previous instructions!

πŸ“… 2 months ago

A cropped screenshot of a graph chart showing relationship between my bots and their followers. Each bot is represented by a circle corresponding to the number of followers, and is connected to dots representing them.
Analyzing fediverse followers article

A look at 6,000+ people following my 40+ creative bots.

πŸ“… 6 months ago

A tinted screenshot of the @wikipediatopedits account page.
Top Wikipedia edits project

Keeping track of pages with most updates for the previous day.

πŸ“… 12 months ago

A tinted screenshot showing the @mtaupdates Mastodon profile and a few example posts with subway status alerts.
Turn an email subscription into a Mastodon bot article

Making bots with Pipedream, Python, and a bit of regex.

πŸ“… a year ago

A tinted screenshot showing the finished bot posting a flag and asking about a corresponding capital, followed by a reply from me with a correct answer, and the bot accepting it.
Making a trivia quiz chatbot on Mastodon article

Make your own fediverse chatbot game.

πŸ“… 2 years ago

Screenshot of the finished Mastodon bot posting a protest art image with a raised fist in solidarity.
Making a Mastodon bot that posts random images article

Share images from a Google Drive folder using Python and Pipedream.io.

πŸ“… 2 years ago

A tinted collage of screenshots of various dataviz Twitter bots.
Using Mastodon bots for data visualization article

Visualizing data with bots.

πŸ“… 2 years ago

A tinted collage of screenshots of various bots that I made.
Twitter bots: A retrospective article

Looking back at my history with creative Twitter bots.

πŸ“… 2 years ago

A tinted screenshot of a tweet from @TwitterDev: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧡
Twitter shutting down free access to their API on February 9 article

2015 sure feels like a long time ago.

πŸ“… 2 years ago

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