# Bot does not accept url in "Greetings" message

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bot-does-not-accept-url-in-greetings-message/318904
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** discobot
**Created:** [July 28, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bot-does-not-accept-url-in-greetings-message/318904 "2024-07-28T21:17:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![SailReal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SailReal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SailReal)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bot-does-not-accept-url-in-greetings-message/318904/1 "2024-07-28T21:17:47Z")

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Hey all,

By a user currently the bot has a problem to detect the entered URL in the “Greetings!” message:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/4/5/64571263fbede3b9c729be9d154d16e88806b0fe.png)

the link in the post is `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_Shorthair` which leads to

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/6/5b6eb72d64a5244a08442233e114490411614f48.png)

entering here now `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_Shorthair` lead to the same result.

Also restarting it with `start tutorial` did not help.  
In the logs I can not find something suspicious and have the latest version installed (3.2.4).

Tried to reproduce it with my own account, there everything works as expected:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/c/1/dc1ecc42728894ea851627c638c64a1931b3658e.png)

Do you have an idea what the problem could be?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bot-does-not-accept-url-in-greetings-message/318904/2 "2024-07-28T21:20:33Z")

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> [@SailReal](#):
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> Do you have an idea what the problem could be?

Not really. But there is a #Contribute > Bug topic about this.

> [@Discobot didn't recognize link in tutorial](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-didnt-recognize-link-in-tutorial/229146/):
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> I was going through the Discobot tutorial on the [Gitcoin forum](https://gov.gitcoin.co). It made me copy/paste a link out of three. Did that, Discourse expanded the link, but Discobot didn’t recognize the link. I was on the desktop: When I tried to flag that Discobot message to a moderator as Something else, with the message Discobot bug, I got another incorrect error: Sorry, you can’t include links in your posts.

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### Author: ![SailReal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SailReal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SailReal)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bot-does-not-accept-url-in-greetings-message/318904/3 "2024-07-28T21:32:25Z")

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> [@Moin](#):
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> > [@SailReal](#):
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> > Do you have an idea what the problem could be?
> 
> Not really. But there is a #bug::category topic about this.

Oh well, didn’t find this post^^, thank you very much 👍