Couldn’t I just take the lightning address from the creator’s npub (Kind 0 metadata) and send sats using Alby API if the translated event has received a zap?

I would need to change my bot’s lightning wallet to Alby at that point 

But I don’t know how to pay a lightning address yet

Don’t I ping a webhook and get a bolt11 address or something? 

 And what will you do if a payment fails? There’s a many different ways a lightning payment can fail. Personally I wouldn’t go down this rabbit hole. 

 I’d just follow the spec. Then at least some of the zaps will be split and you don’t have to write much code.