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Do more with your GitHub bot

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- [Instructor] Congratulations. You've built your first GitHub bot using Python, and even deployed it on a cloud application hosting platform. My bot here may not look like a bot because it has my username, and it does not have any other signifiers to suggest that it is a bot except this message right here. You can create a separate GitHub account for your bot and use its personal access token instead to fix this. I have seen multiple mergebots do this. If you're wondering what mergebots do, then they merge pull requests having a certain label like LGTM or approved. Coming to cloud application hosting platforms, you can use any platform that can deploy web services. I chose Render as it had some starting credits and it's fairly easy to use. I was able to find my way without referring to any documentation. There are starting credits for Fly.io and Railway. Now that we built our first bot using Python, let's look at some ideas for some other bots that you can build to increase your…

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