Outgoing Webhooks

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DanielVF
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I want Discord to be able to contact my web server for a response when someone interacts with a "bot". This allows my to not run an always connected process for my bot, but just use a simple website / aws lambda function.

Slack has both older "outgoing webhooks" and new slash commands for Slack apps. In both cases these allow a system to interact with users without running a bot process. Instead when the user variously mentions a bot, talks to a bot, or types a certain slash command, then that user's message is HTTP posted to a certain url, and then the server can reply with a message back from the bot.

For example, in my particular use case, I have a traditional discord webhook setup on a channel that notifies us of customer actions in our system.

For example:

My current system webhook to Discord:
"Ronald Weasley has purchased Monster Book of Monsters. #5567"

What I want is for a customer service person watching the channel to be able to type:

"@storebot cancel #5567"

Which would be POSTed to my url, and I would reply to that with a:

"Ronald Weasley's order has been canceled"

I'm aware that I could run my own traditional bot, but I really don't want to run and manage another process. I just want my own site and HTTP posts only.

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  • knockit

    I would also prefer this function/feature.

     

    Slack and Telegram both have these kinds of integrations, and I can run Lambda functions on AWS for free instead of managing a server/container somewhere. 

     

     

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  • ninjacat959

    Dont get

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  • ninjacat959

    Dont get

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  • Keidence

    I would also prefer being able to run bots this way.

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  • _Rok0'sBasilisk_

    This would be a life saver! It is a must feature!

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  • Melissa

    Same, this would be very useful for a number of services, Zapier/IFTTT, etc.

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  • Agthor

    +1 to this for sure! This would help me a ton as I don't expect messages around the clock to trigger my bot. Using something like AWS Lambda I could save cost quite a bit not having an always running process listening to Discord's websocket API.

    To expand on the suggestion, it would be great being able to select which types of events go to a given webhook (similar to selecting one or multiple permissions in an application for OAuth2). This way I could theoretically have one AWS Lambda function handle one or multiple events.

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