Introducing Soutaku! - A source bot to help with including the sauce for content you post/find on Lemmy

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨meta@ani.social⁩

Hello!

I’ve made a simple source bot and named it Soutaku. The account is @saucechan@ani.social. It can be summoned with a mention, either by the author of a post or anyone in the comments.

Consider this a beta, functionality is extremely simple so there’s not a lot that can go wrong, but I’ve also not done much testing.

Mentions should work reliably, and make the bot respond no matter what. But Soutaku will also attempt to detect posts that do not include source or artist credit, and comment on these automatically.

Only images linked in the post URL currently work, so trying to summon the bot to find the source for images embedded in the post body or in a comment, won’t work. For now.

I have whitelisted Soutaku for the following communities, feel free to contact me if you’d like any additional communities added.

!fitmoe@lemmy.world
!murdermoe@lemmy.world
!fangmoe@ani.social
!cybermoe@ani.social
!kemonomoe@ani.social
!midriffmoe@ani.social
!streetmoe@ani.social
!thiccmoe@ani.social
!officemoe@ani.social
!meganemoe@ani.social
!anime_art@ani.social
!helltaker@sopuli.xyz
!overlord@sopuli.xyz
!killlakill@lemmy.world
!dungeonmeshi@ani.social

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pinging some peeps to whom this might be of interest: @Toes@ani.social @hitagi@ani.social @wjs018@ani.social @JoShmoe@ani.social

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- hitagi@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is great! Thank you for making this!
  
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wjs018@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Question, what sources does saucechan use? I think it might not be too useful for something like !anime@ani.social where most of the images posted are of new visuals that came from twitter or official websites rather than pixiv or booru. I welcome artwork on !manga@ani.social, but similarly, most of it comes from authors’ or publishers’ twitter accounts.

Seems like a fun project though. I have thought of doing something similar for the communities I mod to enable people to provide quick links for a series by mentioning the title, but haven’t looked at it too hard yet. Instead, I have been working on the new, (hopefully) improved version of a bot that can post episode discussion threads.

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s “mostly whatever saucenao finds” but I’ve also written some custom parts using pixiv’s and danbooru’s APIs regarding finding a good artist name, as well as some stuff to translate/romanize artist names.
  
  I plan to add the ability for it to find “uncropped” versions of an image, likely by interacting with google images, as saucenao tends to not get matches if an image has been cropped.
  
  This does mean that Soutaku inherits saucenaos ability to recognize manga pages (though mangadex or other manga sites wont get parsed into the response atm). Art and promo content that originates on twitter should work.
  
  Currently it will link ArtStation, DeviantArt, Pixiv, Twitter, and Danbooru, if it finds them.
  
  Adding some functionality for detecting mentions of series and providing MAL/Anilist/AniDB/Kitsu links would be cool.
  
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  - wjs018@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just tried out saucenao for a handful of visual posts from both communities and nothing was found. Do you have code published anywhere? I would need to figure out how to interface with lemmy to listen in on comments before I could make a links bot. I am not a dev by trade, so I usually heavily rely on existing code as a starting point.
    
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TokyoCaramel@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thank you for your hard work! I’ve been lurking here a while and see you’re contributing so much content, awesome 😄

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you for the appreciation!
  
  If you’re a fan of trigger/dungeon meshi, join me and others over on !dungeonmeshi@ani.social for a more interactive community than the moe art ones.
  
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  - TokyoCaramel@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I like what I’ve seen so far of Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon, 4 eps or so. Marcille’s reactions are priceless! Subbed 😄
    
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JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would like to create a community focused on Spaceship Art. Is that okay here?

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think that would technically be against ani.social’s rules.
  
  But you should be asking hitagi in a DM.
  
  Also, there is already !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world. Soutaku could work there as well, as it already does on other off-instance communities, as long as the mods of the community agree to it.
  
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  - JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s crazy. I remember subscribing, but I don’t get any posts from them.
    
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JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is there a tsundere thread?

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you mean?
  
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  - JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Is there a thread to post images directly related to the concept of a Tsundere?
    
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