Escape markdown special characters in game name to avoid broken table.

dailyreleases/main.py

@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ class DailyReleasesBot(object):
                     else:
                         tags = " ({})".format(" ".join(rls["tags"])) if rls["tags"] else ""
                         highlights = " **- {}**".format(", ".join(rls["highlights"])) if rls["highlights"] else ""
-                        name = "[{}{}]({}){}".format(rls["game_name"], tags, rls["nfo_link"], highlights)
+                        name = "[{}{}]({}){}".format(util.markdown_escape(rls["game_name"]), tags, rls["nfo_link"],
+                                                     highlights)
 
                     if rls["score"] == -1:
                         reviews = "-"

dailyreleases/util.py

@@ -34,3 +34,12 @@ def case_insensitive_close_matches(word, possibilities, n=3, cutoff=0.6):
     possibilities = {sequence.lower(): sequence for sequence in possibilities}
     close_matches = difflib.get_close_matches(word.lower(), possibilities, n=n, cutoff=cutoff)
     return [possibilities[m] for m in close_matches]
+
+
+def markdown_escape(text: str):
+    """
+    Escape markdown.
+    """
+    special = ("\\", "`", "*", "_", "{", "}", "[", "]", "(", ")", "#", "+", "-", ".", "!", "|")
+    table = {s: f"\\{s}" for s in special}
+    return text.translate(str.maketrans(table))