In this case, this was me in the AI Coding thread (https://meincmagazine.com/civis/threads/adventures-coding-with-ai.1501554/) and hanser had posted an interesting pattern with samples of how he was doing things. I wanted to point to it and go "go look at this post, grab the info, let's talk about how I can use this".
More so that I didn't know if simply copy & paste (unstructured wall of text) would be efficiently able to have the real data extracted. It's at least semi-structured in the forum at a minimum, including code blocks, etc. Which isn't there in copy & paste.So ... you want to go to a post, copy the URL to it, and then go to your chatbot and paste the URL and tell it to look at it, instead of just ... copying the post and pasting it? And to do that you think you're saving a bunch of extra/wasted effort/work, and expect us to do that extra/wasted effort/work?
That is definitely not happening.
But thanks for explaining.
Could you simply link to the specific post and let your little robot parse it?
I'd probably just quote and copy the BBCode to pass to it. But that's simpler for me than any of that other stuff so
yeah. I guess, given the use case described, I am failing to see why the bot would need user access to the forums when they are publicly accessible already.I'd probably just quote and copy the BBCode to pass to it. But that's simpler for me than any of that other stuff so
That's what I tried, but it said Arstechnica said no. I don't know if it was a "return an error" or the "no bots scraping file" that was obeyed, I didn't ask what was the block though.
The one on the left is giving you The Stare, though – doesn't like Churus I guess? ;-)
