Is there a way to create a bot on Discourse that would reply to my commands, in a similar way that I have built many of my Discord bots? Basically, I know that there are various plugins that I can install, but in my mind, it would be far easier for me to maintain if I could just have a bot that cou…

You are going to need a plugin. Take a look at my Frotz plugin as an example/starting point [image] Discourse Frotz mage Plugin Wooah, a new plugin! tada This one is a little less serious, though. video_game [image] Discourse Frotz …

If you really want it to be entirely separate, you could use a combination of webhooks to deliver events to your bot and the HTTP requests API to have your bot make changes in Discourse. [image] Configure webhooks that trigger on Discourse events to integrate with external s…

[image] Simon_Manning: If you really want it to be entirely separate, you could use a combination of webhooks to deliver events to your bot and the HTTP requests API to have your bot make changes in Discourse. Ah yes, that too, good point Simon!

Thank you everyone for your suggestions — I will definitely take look at all of them. :smiley:

this can be done in the post/comment, is it possible to have a bot in a group chat ? I see there is incoming webhook that could deliver message to a groupchat, but seems there is no way having a bot account that listens to the chat messages, then do something accordingly… ?

Yes, for example: [image] Discourse Chatbot robot Plugin information_source Summary The Original AI Chatbot for Discourse hammer_and_wrench Repository Link GitHub - merefield/discourse-chatbot: An AI bot with RAG capability for Topics, Chat & Customer S…

thanks @merefield with a plugin, it could add an event hander/listener for group chat message. I have a rest endpoint server that handles the webhook events, that works nicely for adding a bot to the post/comment. but unfortunately, there is no events fired for group chat message, it does not fly…

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merefield (Robert) April 20, 2022, 1:43pm 4

Ah yes, that too, good point Simon!

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