ChatBot Integration?

ultrasoundie

Hi there,

Are there any plants to integrate chatbots into Flarum? Or, maybe this can already be done with some APIs?

It would be interesting for a user to arrive at the forum and ask a question to the bot and if they can't get the answer to their question, the bot will post it on the forum for them and let them know when someone has answered it.

Just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else was thinking about this type of integration?

Thanks,
Kyle

clarkwinkelmann

You can already create api keys and interact with Flarum from a script relatively easily I guess.

But there are no webooks/polling feature by default so you either need to build your chatbot as an extension or create an extension that adds those hooks (and maybe even PR it to core !)

I'm not sure how you imagine "asking something to the bot" ? You think of integrating with a private discussion extension like Byobu ?

You can of course build all of that as an extension.