# Building a custom bot

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 14, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-custom-bot/154824 "2020-06-14T19:55:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-custom-bot/154824/1 "2020-06-14T19:55:34Z")

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I’ve been looking for a way to create a custom bot that users can interact with in public topics. They would be able to type something like

```plaintext
@botname command arg1 arg2

```

and the bot would reply in the topic with the requested output.

It looks like it isn’t possible to do that with discobot, so I was going to write a webhook receiver in an external cloud function to listen for mentions of the custom bot’s name. The bot would then post a reply via the API.

Has anyone done something similar to that already in a plugin? Or is there a better way to implement that kind of feature?

I thought I would ask here, because sometimes I ask a question and it turns out that there is already an existing solution.

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