MyElizaPsychologistBot

This Telegram bot implements the famous Eliza psychologist, provided in Python at eliza.py by @jezhiggins.

It is based on pyTelegramBotAPI, a Python interface for the Telegram Bot API.

Try it in Telegram: Psychologist

Usage

To run your own instance of this bot you must first register a new Telegram bot. Once you have a token for your bot, you may proceed with options 1 or 2.

Option 1: Manual execution

First, you have to create an environment variable called "BOT_TOKEN" with the token you obtained in the previous step. After that, you only need the following terminal command:

python ./src/psychologist.py

This will run the bot attached to your current terminal. If you want it to stay in the background you should have a look at tools like tmux.

Option 2: Docker container (recommended)

First, you have to create a ".env" file in the repository root with the following format:

BOT_TOKEN=your_bot_token_here

Now, you can run the bot with a single docker command:

docker compose up -d --build

This will run the bot as a Docker container in the background.

Example