A user, stevemcfarlen, discovered Discobot after previously being impressed by a similar bot on another platform. They inquired about the possibility of extending Discobot to fetch content from the web. ssvenn responded that directly modifying Discobot might be challenging due to its internal logic. However, they suggested an alternative: creating separate ‘bot’ users and integrating them with external chatbots, such as Hubot. This approach would allow for more customization and flexibility, with numerous example scripts available to draw from.
Hi all! I have been looking for something like Discobot for so long. I don’t know how I missed this Who is Discobot?.
Actually I was going to use another type of forum software in 2016 for our marketing community, because a site I was on lancebase has a bot called “Turbobot” https://www.lancebase.com/members/turbo.8/, and that was so cool to me. I wanted to use discourse though so I am so happy that Discobot is alive!!
Can I make Discobot go grab some content from the web then bring it back to my community? What is the level oif difficulty to make him do that?
What you CAN do though is create some new ‘bot’ users and hook them up to external chatbots, have a look at Hubot Adapter for Discourse for instance!
Using Hubot as a starting point gives you an enormous amount of example scripts to look at and it’s pretty easy to cobble together your own completely custom code.