# Discobot customized quotes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** discobot
**Created:** [2017年七月8日 06:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848 "2017-07-08T06:10:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月8日 06:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/1 "2017-07-08T06:10:16Z")
Of course Discobot’s quote feature is just “the icing on the cake” and not the cake itself, but is there a way to customize it to use our own quotes? Maybe by uploading a JSON file or so? We already have a random quote function on our website and would like to integrate those quotes in our Discourse forum as well. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年七月8日 06:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/2 "2017-07-08T06:12:54Z")
Yes, this feature already exists in discobot, just look at the config file.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017年七月8日 06:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/3 "2017-07-08T06:19:01Z")
You can also override the quotes in Cutomize \> Text Content and look for strings starting with “discourse\_narrative\_bot.quote”.
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月9日 05:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/4 "2017-07-09T05:30:39Z")
I changed those 10 quotes in the admin panel, which basically overrides the quotes here: [discourse/plugins/discourse-narrative-bot/config/locales/server.en.yml at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/plugins/discourse-narrative-bot/config/locales/server.en.yml)
But the bot seems to get it’s quotes from somewhere else, which I cannot find. … 😞
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年七月9日 06:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/5 "2017-07-09T06:07:40Z")
We will need to ask @tgxworld
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [2017年七月10日 05:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/6 "2017-07-10T05:53:11Z")
When you’re using the english locale, Discobot fetches the quotes from an external API [http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/](http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/) which is only available in English. As a work around for other languages, we added 10 generic quotes so that they can be translated and used by the other locales.
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月10日 06:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/7 "2017-07-10T06:25:42Z")
That’s what I suspected. So no workaround for English then?
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [2017年七月10日 23:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/8 "2017-07-10T23:44:04Z")
Nope. No work around currently for `:en` locale.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [2017年七月11日 10:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/9 "2017-07-11T10:15:09Z")
I think customizing the bot’s quotes to be more relevant to a specific community would be great. Would it be an option to make the source for the bot’s quotes customizable, i.e. that admins can specify a file from which the quotes are supposed to be selected?
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### Author:  [@fearlessfrog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fearlessfrog)
#### Post date: [2019年三月13日 01:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/10 "2019-03-13T01:59:00Z")
Allowing a setting to pick local quotes would be great, as a nice simple customization of the narrative bot for sites to use.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [2020年二月28日 20:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-customized-quotes/65848/11 "2020-02-28T20:04:05Z")
我也希望能自定义 discobot 的引用内容，以便更好地契合我的社区（使用英文）。