Adding a new bot

Adding a new bot:

In lemmy-directory

• Modify scripts/directory_to_json.py
  • Add an output for the new file with the section names

In Lemmy

• Create a new bot account
  • Ensure it is marked as a bot
• Verify email
  • Yawn while waiting for application to be accepted 🥱
  • (you can continue at this point, as long as it is accepted before the bot runs!)

In Google Cloud

• Add a secret for the bot account
• Switch to Permission and add the compute service account (search for "compute") as "Secret Accessor"
  • Click View by Roles
  • Click Grant Access
  • Type "compute" and select the service account
  • Click Role and type "acce" - select the Secret Accessor role
  • Click Save

(google cloud > console > security > secret manager)

In bestofbot

• Switch to the community-update branch
• Add a new line to deploy.sh, replacing the job name, title, bot account, and secret names
• Merge the PR "[automated] Community updates"

In Google Cloud

• Go to Cloud Run Jobs
• Add a trigger to run the job

In TheGood.Cloud

• Add entry for the bot to the bestofbots calendar (@chris-y will need to do this)

In Lemmy

• Set the bot as mod after it has posted once (this allows the bot to lock the post - may change this to use a different account to avoid lots of bots being mods)