Input code into bot

[callmek4den]

Basically, allow us to input code into our bot so if inventor doesn’t have a feature yet, you could add it yourself with code.

[magicbotman]

This isn’t planned in a way that would allow you to implement entirely new features (such as filesystem access, arbitrary network i/o, etc.) You can use network requests and webhooks to integrate with external software running on your own infrastructure.

If there’s a specific feature you have in mind, please suggest that separately.

You can use network requests to (for example) utilize Discord API endpoints that are not yet implemented as blocks, and we are planning a ‘text mode’ to allow you to edit existing flows using text input.

Text-based editing

This is already planned and a prototype exists. The end-goal is for flows to be able to seamlessly be changed from “block mode” to “text mode” and back, without any loss in data (except formatting). This would have all the benefits you described, with the primary one being the ability to move code between flows. There’s a some problems with this sort of conversion but it’s definitely possible. For example, variables are currently referenced by block ID, so we need to either procedurally genera…