¡ǝǝs puɐ op oʇ ɥɔnɯ os s,ǝɹǝɥʇ 'ʇol ƃuᴉʞɹɐd sɐɔɔɐW ɐ uᴉ sǝᴉɥƃnop ƃuᴉop puɐ uooƃ uo pǝssᴉd ƃuᴉʇʇǝƃ ɹo 'sʞɹɐd lɐuoᴉʇɐu ƃuᴉuunʇs ɹno ƃuᴉɹoldxǝ 'sʎɐʍǝuɐl ƃuᴉɯɹɐɥɔ ʎuɐɯ s,ǝuɹnoqlǝW ɟo ǝuo uᴉ ǝǝɟɟoɔ ɐ ƃuᴉʞuᴉɹp 'ǝsnoH ɐɹǝdO ʎǝupʎS ɔᴉʇsǝɾɐɯ ǝɥʇ ƃuᴉʇᴉsᴉʌ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ - uoᴉʇɐuᴉʇsǝp lǝʌɐɹʇ ʇxǝu ɹnoʎ sɐ ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ ɹǝpᴉsuoɔ ǝsɐǝlԀ

˙uoᴉʇᴉsod ʍǝu sᴉɥ ʇɔǝlɟǝɹ ɹǝʇʇǝq oʇ ɹǝpɹo uᴉ spuodsǝɹ ǝɥ ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ ƃuᴉƃuɐɥɔ ǝq oslɐ llᴉʍ ǝɥ 'ǝɹnʇlnɔ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ pɐǝɹds ƃuᴉdlǝɥ oʇ uoᴉʇᴉppɐ uI ¡ɹopɐssɐqɯɐ lɐɹnʇlnɔ ɐ sɐ ᴉƃɐɹoqoᴚ pǝʇɔǝlǝs sɐɥ ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ ɯsᴉɹno┴ 'uƃᴉɐdɯɐɔ ʍǝu ɹᴉǝɥʇ ɟo ʇɹɐd sɐ ʇɐɥʇ ǝɔunouuɐ oʇ pǝsɐǝld ʎɹǝʌ ɯ,I 'uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ pnoɹd ɐ s∀

¡llɐ ollǝH

Thanks to /u/dashwav's suggestion, I was able to jury-rig Roboragi into generating MAL links again. This comes with a few caveats:

• MAL's API is still totally busted, and most of the other 3rd-party apps are still up a certain creek without a paddle.

• I'm getting the MAL ID from Anilist, which means that if Anilist doesn't have a series and MAL does, Roboragi's not going to be able to help.

• Until I have a more permanent solution, Roboragi is going to be a little less accurate. The more data he has access to, the better he works, so having MAL taken out of the picture is a bit of a bummer.

Thanks for your patience, hopefully the MAL API will be up and running again soon.

Edit: Spoke too soon apparently. MAL is currently "undergoing extensive server maintenance for an undetermined amount of time". Not a great sign.

Due to a series of unfortunate events (involving an old version of Python, an old version of PRAW and a Reddit API change), /u/Roboragi and /u/YugiohLinkBot are down until I can rework some stuff. At the very least this will mean another 24 hours downtime, possibly more, but I'll try and have something working as soon as I can.

Thanks to a tip from /u/Moepilator, I recently discovered that Roboragi had been ignoring comments for the last few weeks at a ridiculous rate (one comment dropped every minute or so). After a lot of debugging, I tracked down the culprit (a very old version of PRAW) and ultimately upgraded Roboragi's server, which is live now (I ended up using Azure if anyone's curious).

You shouldn't see any functional differences, but there are a few good points and one bad one which are worth calling out:

1. Good! The comment dropping issue should now be resolved.

2. Good! The new server is hosted in a proper data center in the US (as opposed to a cupboard in Australia), which means Roboragi is way faster than he used to be. Most requests come back in under 10 seconds.

3. Good! I can manage everything remotely now, which makes resolving issues much easier if I'm away from home.

4. Bad! Roboragi's data hasn't been restored yet. I'll have a poke at it when I get a chance, but if you like to use the <!stats> requests please be aware that everything has been wiped.

Please let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary.

^{If you have an open issue, fear not, I'll be getting through my backlog tomorrow. I've been pretty bad about it lately.}

I haven't managed to track down much in the way of official confirmation, but it's become clear that MAL's API has been taken down (presumably by the staff) due to a vulnerability. No news on when/if it'll come back up, but the upshot is that Roboragi is no longer able to link anything from MAL.

I'll take a look at alternatives (like scraping their HTML) when I get a chance (I'm away over the weekend, so it'll be a few days at the least).

/u/Nihilate looks like the bot has been banned.

Good evening!

/u/Roboragi is one of my favorite reddit bots, so I wanted to find him a new home on one of my favorite messaging apps, Telegram.

Introducing: Roboruri, /u/Roboragi ported to Telegram.

Roboruri supports:

• Traditional summons by ninja replying to messages with {anime titles}, <manga titles>, or ]light novels[

• Inline queries, akin to @gif and @imdb, with the same syntax

• Replies to some insults/complements with kaomoji to spice up your anime group chats

I have been working on Roboruri for about 3 months now, trying make her recognition work as well as possible, and I think she's finally stable enough to share with more people. I couldn't have done it without /u/Nihilate, who helped me debug the project extensively and inspired me to start it in the first place.

If you run into any snags or problems with the bot, feel free to DM me or leave an issue on Github.

Also, Roboruri is open source: https://github.com/au5ton/Roboruri

Thanks for your time and enjoy your evening! I hope you find her enjoyable. :)

Telegram bot URL: https://telegram.me/roboruri_bot

Hey everyone! After some poking I've finally got around to adding Kitsu support to Roboragi, so you should start to see anime, manga and light novels links pop up for it.

One quirk with this addition is that existing redirects won't retroactive work with Kitsu, but all future redirects will include them where possible (if you really, really want an existing redirect to include Kitsu then let me know).

As ever, please let me know if you see any issues.

Basically what it says on the tin. VNs can be called using |vertical bars| for regular requests and ||double vertical bars|| for extended requests. At the moment it's just using the VNDB API (which also returns a Wikipedia link, which I've included where possible).

The only major issue so far is that their API can be a little inconsistent in terms of the connection. If it gets too bad I'll take a closer look (and maybe scrape from the HTML instead - definitely not ideal), but I'm not sure how much I can do to improve it.

Both /u/Roboragi (and /u/YugiohLinkBot) are alive again!

A very big thank you to /u/civilization_phaze_3 for identifying and patching the core issue so quickly - it's saved me a lot of time and effort.

Another big thank you to the people who helped provide sources in Roboragi's absence (/u/pikachonggo, /u/Houdiniman111, /u/ferthur, /u/bem13 and /u/thePainesuggestion are the ones I know about).

As posted here, it appears that Roboragi is being intermittently blocked by MangaUpdates. This could be happening for any number of reasonable reasons, but the main issue at the moment is that I don't have a decent way of contacting the admins in order to follow up (and hopefully help rectify the issue if it's something I can solve). As such, I'm disabling MU links until further notice. I'll see what I can do in the mean time, but if anyone has some contact information or a potential solution which doesn't involve trying to get around the block in an unethical way (like changing IP addresses) then I'm happy to hear it.

Since pictures of cute anime girls (and guys) are the only thing which keep the voices at bay, going forward you'll need a new premium currency to use Roboragi: RoboBucks™! This fun and fresh new system will require one RoboBuck™ every request (a request is something {within} <braces> - a comment can have multiple requests), allowing me to stave off the darkness one day at a time!

How do I get RoboBucks™?

Simply PM /u/Roboragi with URLs of your favourite cute anime characters! Since this is an automated system, there are a few stipulations:

• One picture will get you 3 RoboBucks™ (conversion rate is subject to market shifts).

• Put the URLs in the PM body (you can have as URLs in one PM as you want).

• URLs must either end in .jpeg .jpg .gif .png .bmp .svg .webm .gifv or be from gfycat.com.

• Pictures can only be used once! This is a reddit wide thing, so get in before someone else steals your picture.

You should get a receipt PM back (non tax-deductible).

Happy spending!

https://www.reddit.com/user/Roboragi/ has been unsuspended!

Anime-Planet is launching a new feature starting on the 1st on January which lets you track what you watch and read, and compete with your friends and other community members. I'm all for getting through more shows and manga with the help of a little competition/gamification, so if you're interested check it out :).

^{(No, I haven't been paid for this, it's just a neat feature.)}

I have an electrician coming over tomorrow who may need to shut off the power for a bit, so don't panic if you see Roboragi failing to respond.

^{"Scheduled Maintenance" may be unscheduled and have nothing to do with maintenance.}

The old thread is archived - time for a new one.

Please comment here if you see incorrect links that need redirecting or you'd like an additional phrase to link something.

Hello!

After many nights of endless bug chasing, I am happy to say that /u/roboragi has been revived on Discord!

You can go here for more info and instructions on adding it to a server or spinning up your own version of Discordoragi if you want to. I also changed the way that Discordoragi replies to messages, which you can see here. In addition, you can join the Discordoragi discord server to ask questions or to test the bot out.

As far as I have been testing, the bot returns exactly the same information as /u/roboragi does, but as with all things I am sure there are numerous bugs that I haven't ironed out yet, so be sure to add them to the github issues page or post them in the Discord server.

TL;DR: Click this link to get these cool responses on your discord server.

Also, a very big thank you to both /u/Nihilate and /u/jwolff52 for all of their help in getting this bot up and running!

With the help of a few users over at Anime-Planet (thanks thor123 and sothis!), Anime-Planet now joins the databases supported by Roboragi.

A-P has a very robust recommendation system (much better than MAL's in my opinion) and some excellent links to legally streamable anime that are specific to your region, so they're definitely worth checking out!

As ever there are probably going to be a few bugs and issues, so please give me a yell if you see anything out of the ordinary.

Thanks for all the hard work that you put into him, Nihilate.