voyant/chatterbot repository overview

⁠flask-chatterbot

⁠A web implementation of ChatterBot⁠ using Flask.

⁠Local Setup:

1. Ensure that Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and ChatterBot are installed (either manually, or run pip install -r requirements.txt).
2. Run app.py
3. Base URL will be http://localhost:5000/⁠

⁠Usage example:

• /get/how are you?⁠
• Browser handles whitespace for you (/get/how%20are%20you?⁠)
• Returns raw response (ex: I am good).

⁠How do I deploy this to a web server?

If you do not have a dedicated server, I highly recommend using PythonAnywhere⁠, AWS⁠ or Heroku⁠ to host your application.

IMPORTANT: If you are deploying on Heroku, you will have to change the database adapter from chatterbot.storage.SQLStorageAdapter to chatterbot.storage.MongoDatabaseAdapter since SQLite3 isn't supported. To do this simply change the following line:

english_bot = ChatBot("English Bot", storage_adapter="chatterbot.storage.SQLStorageAdapter")

... to use the MongoDB adapter:

english_bot = ChatBot("English Bot", 
                     storage_adapter = "chatterbot.storage.MongoDatabaseAdapter",
                     database = mongodb_name,
                     database_uri = mongodb_uri)

... where mongodb_name is the name of the database you wish to connect to and mongodb_uri is the URI of a remote instance of MongoDB.