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 @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.

Maybe take a look at this? [image] Discourse Frotz mage Plugin Wooah, a new plugin! tada This one is a little less serious, though. video_game [image] Discourse Frotz [image] It’s no longer necessary to @ mention the bot every step of the way. Once in play, just reply to it. Git repo: GitHub - merefield/discourse-frotz: A plugin that uses Frotz to give you an interactive fiction experience on your Discourse forum · GitHub What is it It’s a ‘bot’ with which to play interactive fiction aka classic text adventure …

Thanks, that gives me some ideas. To start, I just want some simple, preset commands that load activities into a topic, but eventually I’m hoping to create a more intelligent bot using a framework like Rasa.

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) June 14, 2020, 8:23pm 2

Maybe take a look at this?

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