Automate publications

[Hysst]

Hello,

I am trying to create a bot or simply automate the uploading of posts to my forum.

At the moment I don't really know how to start or where to start because I see that SMF doesn't have an API as such to help me with this and I don't know if any other user has already achieved this or knows of any API that has already been created for this purpose.

I appreciate your help in advance and I look forward to your answers.

[Kindred]

Well, if you write your bot in php, then you can use the functions in SSI.php.

The old API that was written for smf is deprecated at this point and no one was interested enough to modernize it

[Hysst]

Well, if you write your bot in php, then you can use the functions in SSI.php.

The old API that was written for smf is deprecated at this point and no one was interested enough to modernize it

Yes, my idea is to do it in PHP.
Could you give me a little more information about this file you indicate?

It would be nice to know which functions are predefined to try to do what I'm looking for or if I would have to build them myself.

[Kindred]

Look at yoursite.com/ssi_examples.php

Or just start scrolling through the code in SSI.php on your server.

I don't think that ssi allows creating a post... but by loading sdi, you can then call for the standard smf files/functions like createPost

[Hysst]

Look at yoursite.com/ssi_examples.php [nofollow]

Or just start scrolling through the code in SSI.php on your server.

I don't think that ssi allows creating a post... but by loading sdi, you can then call for the standard smf files/functions like createPost

If it doesn't allow you to create posts I'm back to square one....
I've seen some forums with SMF that had automated posts and that's why I was curious...
I think it's going to be a lot more complex than I imagined.

[Doug Heffernan]

I've seen some forums with SMF that had automated posts and that's why I was curious...

I vaguely remember to have seen such a mod at our mods database section, but I am not really sure.

[Kindred]

The automated posts mods that you have seen are probably thinks like the RSS import to post mod...
Which is internal to smf, not an external service... it uses rss to pull data and then uses internal software functions to create the posts based on the contents of the rss feed

[Doug Heffernan]

The automated posts mods that you have seen are probably thinks like the RSS import to post mod...
Which is internal to smf, not an external service... it uses rss to pull data and then uses internal software functions to create the posts based on the contents of the rss feed

That must have been it.

[Hysst]

The automated posts mods that you have seen are probably thinks like the RSS import to post mod...
Which is internal to smf, not an external service... it uses rss to pull data and then uses internal software functions to create the posts based on the contents of the rss feed

Could you tell me where I can find that mod you're talking about? So I can see what I can do with it.

[vbgamer45]

https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=624

[live627]

Here's code to create ten topics

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require_once('./SSI.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Post.php');
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
{
$msgOptions = [
'body' => 'Automated Topic #' . $i,
'id' => 0,
'subject' => 'Automated Subject #' . $i,
];
$topicOptions = [
'id' => 0,
'board' => $board_ids[$i],
'mark_as_read' => false,
];
$posterOptions = [
'id' => $members[$i],
];
createPost($msgOptions, $topicOptions, $posterOptions);
$topics[$i] = $topicOptions['id'];

echo "Created topic $i\n";
}https://github.com/live627/SMF2.1/blob/0986e7c488e3c25926420f787b17ee66ee770831/tests/env/Populate.php#L66-L85

[Hysst]

Here's code to create ten topics

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require_once('./SSI.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Post.php');
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
{
$msgOptions = [
'body' => 'Automated Topic #' . $i,
'id' => 0,
'subject' => 'Automated Subject #' . $i,
];
$topicOptions = [
'id' => 0,
'board' => $board_ids[$i],
'mark_as_read' => false,
];
$posterOptions = [
'id' => $members[$i],
];
createPost($msgOptions, $topicOptions, $posterOptions);
$topics[$i] = $topicOptions['id'];

echo "Created topic $i\n";
}https://github.com/live627/SMF2.1/blob/0986e7c488e3c25926420f787b17ee66ee770831/tests/env/Populate.php#L66-L85 [nofollow]

I will try the code you have proposed to see if I can achieve my purpose with it.
Thank you!

[m4z]

There's also this python script, but it doesn't allow "timed" posting (and might not work with the current SMF version; haven't tested).