I want to contribute Discord Channel connector feature

[Horizon733]

Description of Problem: Discord is growing drastically, and so as their chatbots. So, with python people do use bots but just commands bot and not chatbots. This is currently a situation I have seen.

Overview of the Solution: With the help of Rasa, we can create and integrate an awesome bot on Discord too. So, I am building a Discord connector, which will help to integrate Rasa chatbots with Discord bots. This will be connected with Rest channel

Examples (if relevant):

Here are a couple of images from the sample bot on how this will look like on Discord

Blockers (if relevant): How do I use rest channel in the Discord connector?

Definition of Done: These are some DOD I came up with while writing the router for Discord

• [ ] Answers each and every user
• [ ] uses sender_id as user-id
• [ ] captures button's response as reactions for a certain time period

[sara-tagger]

Exalate commented:

sara-tagger commented:

Thanks for submitting this feature request 🚀 @kalkbrennerei will get back to you about it soon! ✨

[Horizon733]

Exalate commented:

Horizon733 commented:

Hi, any updates? I have figured out a way to integrate. But need some technical help. If anyone from the Team or community could help it will be really helpful

[m-vdb]

Exalate commented:

m-vdb commented:

Thanks @Horizon733 and sorry for the late reply. Do you have a draft PR somewhere that the team could look at?

[Horizon733]

Exalate commented:

Horizon733 commented:

Thanks @Horizon733 and sorry for the late reply. Do you have a draft PR somewhere that the team could look at?

I did build a middle connector in between Rasa rest and Discord from which the above image is displayed, but after research, it seems I have to customize the discord python library or find something else to work with Discord-Rasa. Because the discord python library which was used is now archived and not maintained. You can have a look at the below link. https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py So, I will update here as I get some progress on it. FYI: The main blocker I faced was running discord code on one thread and rasa server on another. This is why I wasn't able to integrate

[ibaylyak]

up?

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