u/BGGFetcherBot is designed to reply to comments in r/boardgames and r/soloboardgaming if the comment includes game names in double brackets (or bold with a !fetch call in the comment body) with links to the game on BoardGameGeek.com.
Adding support for !fetch with bold game names instead of double brackets.
Adding support for calling the bot with a year range instead of just modifiers. (Issue #13)
Game query must be 200 characters or less.
Upgrading from TheFuzz to RapidFuzz for fuzzy matching.
Fuzzy matching both with JaroWinkler and ratio then going with the winner. (Issue #14)
Drop duplicate game IDs from the database. Apparently the boardgameexpansion links are all canonical to the boardgame equivalent.
Fixing call for game link using the index loc instead of the game name, to ensure the year and URL are specifically from the closest match. (Issue #14)
Bot now able to parse year and modifiers added to call (Issue #7):
[[Everdell|2020]] will look for Everdell with release years of 2020.
[[Everdell|2020+]] will look for Everdell with release years of 2020 or later.
[[Everdell|2020-]] will look for Everdell with release years of 2020 or earlier.
Bot being added to r/soloboardgaming
Ordered data by game_year in descending order to improve exact matching to most recent publish date.
Unescaped the spaces in the query for possible matches (Issue #9)
Corrected replacement with new escape logic on line 64 (Issue #9)
Separated subreddits into separate variable to more easily read for future subreddit additions.
Compile game finder regex on initial load before loop (Issue #8)
Created and implemented find_closest_match function for better repeatability and future work.
Stripped extra whitespace from game_name to attempt a better match (Issue #1)
Added regex to catch Fancy Pants Editor bracket escapes (Issue #2)
Added support for bold inside and outside brackets (Issue #3)
Adding game match and year to response (Issue #4)
Added escapes to all special regex characters to avoid catastrophic backtracking (Issue #5)
Added r/BGGFetcherBot to subreddit listener for testing.
Added error logging to an external file.
Added a datetime check to ensure the database being queried stays fresh every 7 days.
Added pre-filtering before fuzzy matching to attempt to find verbatim matches earlier to ensure higher quality matches.
Correcting game names that might be in bold.
Initial commit of the reddit bot