# Interactive bot users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactive-bot-users/60064
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactive-bot-users/60064 "2017-03-28T21:49:28Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactive-bot-users/60064/4 "2020-01-24T11:34:29Z")

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I recently worked with a client to hook in [https://www.cleverbot.com/](https://www.cleverbot.com/) so that the bot would reply to you if you @ mentioned it. You could have a conversation with it. Unfortunately that project was closed-sourced or I would share, but the concept is straightforward. It is also fairly light-weight as an extension because all the ‘AI’ is performed remotely and you are leveraging the bots existing capabilities.

On a related note you can embed Interactive Fiction in a Topic like so:

> [@Turning a topic into interactive fiction ;)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-a-topic-into-interactive-fiction/87885):
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> information_source check out the plugin version of this here: [Discourse Frotz mage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-frotz-an-interactive-fiction-game-bot/140617) After whitelisting the URL, I embedded this iframe into a post in the Lounge for a bit of fun. Result?: A fully working piece of classic Interactive Fiction embedded in a post that doesn’t look too out of place :slight\_smile: (although you do need to manually scroll) Why?: because you can \<iframe src="https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.douglasadams.com%2Fcreations%2Fhhgg.z3" width="800" height="80…

You could do the same, but use Posts for each step in your journey, but I think that would be hugely wasteful of forum resources and who’s going to read that again unless they are looking for a walkthrough? (now that’s an idea!)

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