Creative online bots

Want to learn more about friendly, creative online bots ? Check out Botwiki (here’s my author page) and Botmakers!

My bots Botwiki.org Botmaking guide Botmakers.org

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.

๐Ÿ“… 2 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.

๐Ÿ“… 9 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.

๐Ÿ“… 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.

๐Ÿ“… a year 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.

๐Ÿ“… a year ago

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

Visualizing data with bots.

๐Ÿ“… a year 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.

๐Ÿ“… a year ago

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Twitter shutting down free access to their API on February 9 article

2015 sure feels like a long time ago.

๐Ÿ“… a year ago

A tinted collage showing bots featured in the article.
Exploring the bots people make and follow in the fediverse article

A follow-up to my article on the most popular Twitter bots.

๐Ÿ“… a year ago

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

Visualizing data with Twitter bots.

๐Ÿ“… 2 years ago

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