Extension Ideas: Auto Responding Bot

I just spent an hour or so using the ForumSpark API to prove how a (helper) bot could be created. In the demo I listen to incoming webhooks on the replies/create topic. The extension parses the reply to determine if the bot was tagged and which command to issue. If it was tagged and a command was given then it will automatically create an appropriate reply:

Obviously this is a toy example. But I could how something like this could have various applications, RPG forums to extend the playing experience, enabling moderator actions through posts instead of via clicks, requesting ai summaries of long topics so far.

If anyone is interested in making their own bot-like extension for ForumSpark I'd be happy to chat about how it all fits together.

Edit: a slightly more involved example allowing the bot to respond with Giphy GIFs: