Chat Bot Commands

A message that starts with / is a command: the chat answers it at once, without the assistant. The same twelve commands work in all three ways of having the chat bot.

The Commands button, the question mark in the chat header, lists them, each with an example: click the example to put it in the message box.
Typing / in the message box lists them too.

The twelve commands

/search

Searches your site and lists the pages, products and PDF pages that match, each with its link.Example: /search robotic lawn mower

/time

The local date and time at a place, at coordinates or where an IP address is. With nothing after it: the visitor's own local time.Example: /time Tokyo

/rate

Today's exchange rate between two currencies (three-letter codes) and the amount converted. Add a date as YYYY-MM-DD for a past day.Example: /rate 100 EUR to RON

/vat

The standard and reduced VAT rates of one or more European countries or the United Kingdom (two-letter codes, separated by commas).Example: /vat RO, DE

/vatcheck

Whether an EU or UK VAT number is valid, with the name and address of the company it belongs to.Example: /vatcheck IE6388047V

/distance

The straight-line distance between two places, addresses or coordinates, in kilometres and miles.Example: /distance Paris to Berlin

/place

Finds a place or a street address, with its coordinates, region, country and a map link. Give coordinates (latitude,longitude) to learn what is there.Example: /place Santa Clara, California, USA

/postal

Postal codes and the street addresses that have them: a code, a code and a town, or a town and a country.Example: /postal 10115 Berlin

/ip

Where an IP address is: country, region, city, time zone and a map link. With nothing after it: the visitor's own approximate location.Example: /ip 8.8.8.8

/language

The language of a text and its sentiment: positive, negative or neutral (the sentiment is measured on English text).Example: /language Acest produs este excelent

/translate

Translates a text into another language: two language codes joined by a hyphen (en-es, from English into Spanish), or only the language to translate into. The longest text is the one you set on the Limits tab. The Commands list has a Table of language codes to search.Example: /translate en-es What is this?

/help

The list of commands.

Other names that work: /? and /commands for /help, /find and /geocode for /place, /currency and /exchange for /rate, /zip for /postal, /lang and /sentiment for /language.

What they use

/search is a search by meaning and /translate writes an answer: each uses an AI request of the monthly allowance, like a search or an answer anywhere else.
/language passes a text too short to recognize to the chat model, which uses one request; otherwise it is free, like the other eight lookups.
A command counts as a question for Questions per visitor on the Limits tab, never for Questions per conversation.

The assistant runs the same lookups by itself when a question needs them: what the chat bot can look up. How the allowance is counted: what site search uses from your plan.

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