Blue Bots, Done Quick!

@bluebotsdonequick.com

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Information and updates about Blue Bots, Done Quick! - a free tool that allows you to easily build your own Bluesky bot using Tracery code. Make your own at https://bluebotsdonequick.com! (Created by @olafmoriarty.no)

Screenshot from bluebotsdonequick.com. Posting frequency How often do you want the bot to post? (Unselected option) At a regular interval (Selected option) At custom times Type (dropdown menu): Daily Time (dropdown menu): 08:30, UTC+02:00 Tracery rule (text input): Don't forget to hug someone today! If you leave this field blank, #origin# will be posted. Icon: trashcan Button: Add another row... Note: Bots that post frequently will be less accurate than bots that post less frequently. Bots that are set to post every ten minutes may realistically only post every 15-20 minutes, while a bot that posts weekly will normally post on time every week.
Screenshot of the "Posting frequency" box on bluebotsdonequick.com. Posting frequency How often do you want the bot to post? Radio button: At a regular interval Radio button (selected): At custom times Type Dropdown menu set to "Daily" Time A text field containing "13:50" UTC+02:00 Tracery rule An input field with placeholder text #origin# If you leave this field blank, #origin# will be posted. Button: Add another row... Note: Bots that post frequently will be less accurate than bots that post less frequently. Bots that are set to post every ten minutes may realistically only post every 15-20 minutes, while a bot that posts weekly will normally post on time every week.
A box with the header "Posting frequency". Under the question "How often do you want the bot to post?", you can pick "At a regular interval" or "At custom times", and "At custom times" is selected. Below, three yellow boxes each contain a "Type" dropdown, set to "Daily", "Weekly" and "Monthly" respectively. The Weekly row has checkboxes to select days of the week, the Monthly row has an input field to enter dates, e.g. "7" or "7,14,21,28" (as described in a help text below the input). Each row also has a Time field to enter a value in UTC+02:00, a field for entering a Tracery rule, and a trashcan icon to delete the row. At te bottom there's a green "Add another row..." button.
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How to get your BBDQ bot up and running again Open your browser’s Dev Tools. In most browsers, you can do this by pressing F12. A new sidebar will open (in Chrome and Edge it opens in the right part of the window, in Firefox it opens at the bottom of the window. Find the «Network» tab and click on it. If you see a row of buttons like the one pictured here (“All”, “Fetch/XHR”, “Doc” etc.), click Fetch/XHR. (This step is not required but makes the next steps easier.) Open Bluesky (https://bsky.app). Log in to your bot account, or switch to your bot account. You’ll notice that as data is loading, new entries are added to the list of rows in the Network tab. Click on one that begins in app.bsky. and click it.
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Screenshot from bluebotsdonequick.com. In a box titled "Replies" a dropdown menu is set to "Post a custom reply". A large yellow box (a tab on top is titled "Editor view", the other tab possible is "JSON view") contains a list of input fields, containing: "If message contains" dinner "Reply with" My dinner suggestion for today is: #dinnerSuggestion# "Else if message contains" ice cream "Reply with" My current favorite ice cream flavor is #iceCreamFlavors# "Else if message contains" (the input field is blank) "Reply with" (the input field is blank) "For all other messages: Reply with" Ask me about dinner or ice cream! At the bottom of the yellow box, it says "Keyword fields are case-insensitive and can contain regular expressions." Below the yellow box, there is a "Reply preview" header (with a link to reroll it), and an input field labeled "Input (change this to see how the bot will respond to different user messages):", containing lorem ipsum text. And then there's a preview of a bluesky post, saying "Ask me about dinner or ice cream!".
{ "origin": [ "[nameA:#name#]#nameA# is the same name as #nameA#" ], "name": [ "Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta" ] }
The editor window of bluebotsdonequick.com. next to the editor view and json view tabs there are two icons, a question mark and a cog.
{label}: Add a label to suggestive images Use {label [label-name]} to add a label to your post, declaring that it contains adult content. [label-name] can be one of the following values: porn - for adult content sexual - for what BlueSky calls "less intense sexual content" nudity - for non-sexual nudity graphic-media - for violence / gore Other values than one of these four, as far as I know, will not work. The label will only be attached to the post if it contains images (including SVGs). { "origin": [ "{img https://bluebotsdonequick.com/image.png An oil painting of a naked man attacking a Tesla with a battle mace.}{label nudity}" ] }
{ "origin": [ "{item #deborahTimes# {hour}}" ], "deborahTimes": [ "#deborahNight#", "#deborahNight#", "#deborahNight#", "#deborahNight#", "#deborahNight#", "#deborahEarlyMorning#", "#deborahEarlyMorning#", "#deborahEarlyMorning#", "#deborahMidMorning#", "#deborahMidMorning#", "#deborahMidMorning#", "#deborahAroundNoon#", "#deborahAroundNoon#", "#deborahAroundNoon#", "#deborahAfternoon#", "#deborahAfternoon#", "#deborahAfternoon#", "#deborahAfternoon#", "#deborahEvening#", "#deborahEvening#", "#deborahEvening#", "#deborahLateEvening#", "#deborahLateEvening#", "#deborahNight#" ], "deborahEvening": ["This message will only be displayed between 6 PM and 8:59 PM (UTC, so adapt to your timezone!)."] }
{date}, {hour}, {month}, {monthName}, {weekday}, {weekdayName}: Date and time Add the current time or date to your output, or use it to generate output. All given times are UTC. Use {date [php date format]} to insert any date, where the attribute is a PHP datetime format: { "origin": [ "Today is {date F jS, Y}." ] } For simplicity I've also added shortcodes for a couple of the most common date strings: {hour} returns the current hour in UTC time on a 24-hour clock as a two digit number between 00 and 23. {month} returns the current month as a two digit number between 01 and 12. {monthName} returns the current month, January-December. {weekday} returns the current day of the week as a number between 0 (Sunday) and 6 (Saturday). {weekdayName} returns the current day of the week, Sunday-Saturday. Dates are parsed before the Tracery code runs, so it can be used in tag names: { "origin": [ "{weekdayName} is a #rhyme{weekday}#" ], "rhyme1": "bon day", "rhyme2": "blues day", "rhyme3": "Heaven's day", "rhyme4": "worse day", "rhyme5": "bi day", "rhyme6": "latter day", "rhyme0": "fun day" } While this is possible, in most cases it would probably be a better idea to use the {item} tag.
The editor view on Bluebotsdonequick.com. The origin box contains the text "KEEP CALM\nAND\n#something#". Under the textbox there's a "something" button.
JSON: { "origin": [ "{weekdayName} is a {item #rhymes# {weekday}}." ], "rhymes": [ "fun day", "bon day", "blues day", "Heaven's day", "worse day", "bi day", "latter day" ] } { "origin": [ "{n} is an {item #parity# {n}} number." ], "parity": [ "even", "odd" ] }
JSON: { "origin": [ "{weekdayName} is a #rhyme{weekday}#" ], "rhyme1": "bon day", "rhyme2": "blues day", "rhyme3": "Heaven's day", "rhyme4": "worse day", "rhyme5": "bi day", "rhyme6": "latter day", "rhyme0": "fun day" }
JSON: { "origin": [ "{img https://bluebotsdonequick.com/image.png An oil painting of a naked man attacking a Tesla with a battle mace.}{label nudity}" ] }
An editor window containing a JSON object with syntax highlighting.
The same editor, but there is now a button on top to go back to origin, and the editor window is labeled "adjective" instead of origin and contains the contents of the adjective rule.
The new BBDQ editor window, which looks more like a textarea with text than a JSON object. Also it has syntax highlighting. Under the textarea are clickable buttons, one for each Tracery rule referenced in the textarea.
The "Posting frequency" dropdown. The top option is now "Never".
The header "Post preview", followed by what looks like a bluesky post from "Wanna feel old? (bot)" with the text "Sarah Michelle Gellar is the same age in 2024 that Mark Hamill was in 1998."