Extract descriptions from directory

[chris-y]

Maybe scrape the communities and descriptions from the directory posts, rather than the community descriptions and a separately maintained file.

Even if we convert to a useful format locally that will be better then having to maintain two things.

[M4rtineski]

Maybe a github script that automatically merges the directory parts into one full directory github file and then scrape the communities and descriptions from there? Not sure if it would be less or more work. lmao

[chris-y]

I've created an action in lemmy-directory which extracts the communities into the individual JSON files that this bot reads. It updates them when you push to that repo and creates a PR here (so we can check nothing has broken before merging). (it all shows up under my name which is annoying but the only way I could give it enough access)

In future this can be expanded to extract the descriptions too.

[chris-y]

I've fixed the action so it has a bot account rather than masquerading as me.