# How to build a simple search bot with Rasa?

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-build-a-simple-search-bot-with-rasa/2547>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 9, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-build-a-simple-search-bot-with-rasa/2547 "2018-11-09T15:32:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![asmaier](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/asmaier/32/1085_2.png) [@asmaier](https://forum.rasa.com/u/asmaier)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-build-a-simple-search-bot-with-rasa/2547/1 "2018-11-09T15:32:23Z")

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Hello Rasa Community,

I’d like to build a simple search bot with Rasa. It should start searching for X (where X could be anything), when the user enters sentences like:

- Tell me about X
- Search for X
- I need infos about X
- I want infos about X
- I’m searching for information about X
- Please tell me about product X
- Please get me information about X
- Get me infos about X
- Please, search for X
- Search for X, please
- Get me infos about X, please
- Tell me about X, please
- Search for X, please

The problem is X could be anything, so it is not restricted to a specific type of entity (ok, most of the time it will be 1-3 words for my use case, but it could also be a word and a number). I researched a bit and as far as I can see Rasa doesn’t offer a wildcard entity like Dialogflow or Wit.AI does:

- [Is there wildcard entity in rasa nlu? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49113915/is-there-wildcard-entity-in-rasa-nlu)
- [Wildcard intents in stories · Issue #5 · RasaHQ/rasa\_core · GitHub](https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core/issues/5)

Does that mean it is impossible to build a searchbot with Rasa at the moment? Or are there any other possibilities to extract X from a variety of sentences as given above?