Chatbot start on command

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Hi, How can I make a chatbot start when it’s sent a start notification (i.e. the chatbot will be waiting for such a notification) when it receives it, it’ll give a welcome message before the user types. It’s important that the chatbot does not start until it’s told to, is there any way to control this? how? thanks

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You can use the REST API to trigger an action.

In your endpoints.yml add:

action_endpoint:
 url: "http://localhost:5055/webhook"

and in credentials.yml add:

rest:

rasa:
  url: "http://localhost:5002/api"

Then you just POST the following JSON to http://localhost:5055/webhook/

{
    "next_action": action_name_that_you_want_to_trigger,
    "sender_id": id_of_the_user_you_want_to_send_it_to
}
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