Discord auto responder, no code

An auto responder is the smallest useful bot feature there is: someone types a phrase, the bot answers. Noria's Auto Responder node does it in a single step — with the parts that usually get added later already built in.

Why it is one node#

By hand this is three: a Message trigger, an If checking whether the content contains something, and a send-message. The piece people always end up adding is a cooldown, usually right after the first time a popular word turned a channel into a wall of bot replies. So the recipe ships with it on by default — ten seconds, per channel — rather than as an option to discover afterwards.

Every option, explained#

• Server — which server this runs in.
• Phrases that trigger it — the message sets the rule off if it matches any of these.
• How to match — five modes:
  • contains — the usual choice.
  • exact — the whole message is the phrase, nothing else.
  • starts with — useful for fake commands like !hours.
  • whole word — stops "hi" firing inside "this".
  • search pattern — regex syntax, for the rare case the other four cannot express.
• Match upper and lower case exactly — off by default, so "Hello" and "hello" are the same phrase.
• How it answers — post in the same channel, write to the member privately, or react to their message.
• Answers — add several and one is picked at random each time. {{user}} becomes a mention, {{username}} their name, and {{phrase}} the phrase that matched.
• Emoji to react with — used when the answer is a reaction.
• Only in these channels — leave empty to listen everywhere the trigger fires.
• Roles it ignores — members holding any of these never set it off. Useful for staff testing phrases.
• Ignore bots — on by default. Two auto responders answering each other is the classic way to flood a channel.
• Cooldown and scope — how long it stays quiet after answering, and whether that applies per channel, per member, or across the whole server. 0 answers every single time.
• Chance of answering — 100 always. Lower it for a rare easter egg that stays funny because it is not guaranteed. A roll that comes up silent doesn't spend the cooldown.
• Delete the message that set it off — turns the responder into a "say this instead" rule.

The node also outputs whether it matched, which phrase did, and what it answered — so you can branch after it, or log the answers a channel actually saw.

Set it up in three steps#

1. Create a workflow and add a Discord — Message trigger.
2. Connect the Auto Responder node.
3. List your phrases and answers, pick the channels it should listen in, and activate.

Ideas that work well#

• An FAQ that never sleeps — "when is the stream", "how do I get a role", "where are the rules", each with two or three phrasings and a friendly answer.
• A soft moderation nudge — match a phrase, react with 👀 instead of replying, and let the room read the hint.
• A rare easter egg — one phrase, a 5% chance, and an answer nobody expects.