6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby lavengro » Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:27 pm

As there are at least a couple of us who likely won't be recording time on the bot, should we post here, and if so, only at the end of the six week period or on an ongoing cumulative fashion or in some other fashion?

While I will not be posting to the bot (I do not have a Twitter account: I don't like asking for things in life, so I am waiting for Elon to ask me to join up, and he hasn't yet), I see that I am already tied for last place, which is humbling but also not entirely unexpected.

I am blaming a bad time zone draw: other than Alaskans and fish and whales and such in the eastern half of the Pacific Ocean, I am in the one of the last time zones. That, and laziness.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby MarxistPigeon » Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:53 am

I’ll be joining for Chinese. Not looking to use the bot to track it right now. I may not be able to get far but I’ve got plenty of time left in my life to continue learning Chinese, this will just be a start. :lol:
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby CDR » Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:08 pm

smallwhite wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:

More about the Challenge here

Looks like Twitter is terminating the public/free API on February 9th. :cry: to move to a paid model only. They have not released a price structure yet.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/

I assume this is going to take down our beloved 6WC bot?
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby CarlyD » Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:41 pm

CDR wrote:
smallwhite wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:

More about the Challenge here

Looks like Twitter is terminating the public/free API on February 9th. :cry: to move to a paid model only. They have not released a price structure yet.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/

I assume this is going to take down over beloved 6WC bot?


I know nothing about tech stuff, but the page linked below says up to 500 requests a month (would that be each of our tweets during the challenge?) would be $149.99 a month.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing/search-30day
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby CDR » Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:49 pm

CarlyD wrote:
CDR wrote:
smallwhite wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:

More about the Challenge here

Looks like Twitter is terminating the public/free API on February 9th. :cry: to move to a paid model only. They have not released a price structure yet.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/

I assume this is going to take down over beloved 6WC bot?


I know nothing about tech stuff, but the page linked below says up to 500 requests a month (would that be each of our tweets during the challenge?) would be $149.99 a month.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing/search-30day


You can get up to 500 tweets per request, so at best it's 250000 tweets per month. I don't really know how the bot works however, so I don't know how many requests it might generate. This pricing/product is only for searching tweets however, not for replying to them. Additionally, I think this was the pre-existing pricing scheme, I am not sure if they are going to continue with this, or do something new.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby smallwhite » Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:15 am

CDR wrote:
CarlyD wrote:
CDR wrote:
smallwhite wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:

More about the Challenge here

Looks like Twitter is terminating the public/free API on February 9th. :cry: to move to a paid model only. They have not released a price structure yet.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/

I assume this is going to take down over beloved 6WC bot?


I know nothing about tech stuff, but the page linked below says up to 500 requests a month (would that be each of our tweets during the challenge?) would be $149.99 a month.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing/search-30day


You can get up to 500 tweets per request, so at best it's 250000 tweets per month. I don't really know how the bot works however, so I don't know how many requests it might generate. This pricing/product is only for searching tweets however, not for replying to them. Additionally, I think this was the pre-existing pricing scheme, I am not sure if they are going to continue with this, or do something new.

We've been needing a different score tracker, a generic customisable one that all LLorg challenges can use. We have many challenges yet only us 6WCers, the lucky bunch, have a bot (I think) (ours must be the best anyway!)

Would be great if our tech savvy members could help create something. I can easily create a scoring spreadsheet, just that I don't think spreadsheet would be good or preferred by members.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby rdearman » Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:13 am

smallwhite wrote:We have many challenges yet only us 6WCers, the lucky bunch, have a bot (I think) (ours must be the best anyway!)

Actually there is also one for the Super Challenge. This bot is opensourced and available for modification on git hub: https://github.com/language-learners/superchallengebot

I've forked the source for that bot, and I'm going to try and start modifying it to work with the Mastodon API. Obviously this could be forked and modified to work with a variety of challenges, should anyone wish.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby smallwhite » Sat Feb 04, 2023 11:37 am

rdearman wrote:
smallwhite wrote:We have many challenges yet only us 6WCers, the lucky bunch, have a bot (I think) (ours must be the best anyway!)

Actually there is also one for the Super Challenge. This bot is opensourced and available for modification on git hub: https://github.com/language-learners/superchallengebot

I've forked the source for that bot, and I'm going to try and start modifying it to work with the Mastodon API. Obviously this could be forked and modified to work with a variety of challenges, should anyone wish.

Can we have bots that are not tied to Twitter etc?
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby rdearman » Sat Feb 04, 2023 11:48 am

smallwhite wrote:
rdearman wrote:
smallwhite wrote:We have many challenges yet only us 6WCers, the lucky bunch, have a bot (I think) (ours must be the best anyway!)

Actually there is also one for the Super Challenge. This bot is opensourced and available for modification on git hub: https://github.com/language-learners/superchallengebot

I've forked the source for that bot, and I'm going to try and start modifying it to work with the Mastodon API. Obviously this could be forked and modified to work with a variety of challenges, should anyone wish.

Can we have bots that are not tied to Twitter etc?

Well.... you could simply have an email drop box. This was fairly typical back in the ancient days of computing. (circa 2000). Honestly, the easiest and probably the best way is to simply have a webpage where people input the various items, and it goes straight into a database.

Probably the best way is to allow multiple points of entry. Web-page, Email, Mastadon toot, sms text message, or even WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.

It is a good point. I will have a think about it. Email might be the easiest way to start. I will start discussion (of bots) over to a new thread in the Dev Area.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - 2023

Postby Mista » Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:03 pm

I'm in with Russian (again)
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