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hello i am nora reed

you may know me from all the bots i have made. they live on nora.zone now. i also run an abortion resources page at abortion.cafe and have a jewelry store at nora.jewelry.

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does anyone know how to connect cohost to Zapier?

bit of a longshot, but if there was a way to do that i'd be able to put bots on here

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i don't know anything about computers. given that, is this kind of thing the kind of thing i'd be able to put code from cohost.py into? or is there another thing i can use for this?

basically: i have RSS feeds of bots that i would like to make cohost posts as well as rss. i am already using Zapier to do this with tumblr. is this possible to do without expensive infrastructure? i do have a Glitch account if it can be used for this kind of thing. i am aware that cohost does not have a public API yet.

if it helps, i want to do this because i have a bot that generates sandwiches and i want it to post sandwiches on here. i have other bots too but that's the one i really want to do.

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years ago I was interviewing for a position at Zapier, and ended up doing a bunch of testing with it, didn't get the job, etc

but I do remember that it's based on accessing site APIs directly, and that's something that according to various cohost staff folks is not currently stable. like, there's a cohost API, but it's not officially available yet, so anything you do with it may end up experiencing a breaking change. IIRC it's one of their priorities, along with the thousand other priorities, you know how it is. so you could probably connect Zapier to it by creating a custom integration but I'm not sure if it's worth doing before the API is locked down

you might instead have a look at cohost.py, an unofficial Python library, and also jae's post here about how they'd like bots to look. and there's also a #cohost api tag for ongoing talk and communications

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so uh, the issue is just that cohost doesn’t have a public api. all the current api tools are libraries that have managed to hack together some sort of usable interface out of semi-private api stuff. you could prolly use those libraries directly using some python code or something but i don’t think you can really connect it to zapier or ifttt until there’s a public api. but it is on roadmap! i hope that helps. idk if you know python but i feel confident that you could learn enough to make something that works similar to cheap bots done quick but for yourself on cohost :eggbug-smile-hearts:

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It looks like Zapier doesn't let you import third party code, but it does have requests, so you could probably copy-paste the parts of cohost.py that you need into Zapier with some decent chance of success.

I'd be happy to help debug if you need a hand (though I'll be on parental leave soon so I can't guarantee what my response time might be 😅).

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