🐾 Text-A-Cat SMS Bot

Text-A-Cat is a playful SMS bot that replies like a mischievous house cat! Built with Flask, OpenAI, and Twilio, this little feline lives to nap, sniff, and sass back in perfect paw-speak.

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🐱 What It Does

When someone texts your Twilio number, the bot responds with an AI-generated message in the voice of a goofy, curious, and somewhat judgmental house cat. It uses the OpenAI API (via gpt-4o-mini) to create delightfully weird responses that match your custom cat-brain prompt.

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✨ Example

Incoming SMS:

What are you thinking about right now?

Text-A-Cat Replies:

mmmm... tuna... nap... chasing fluff! meeow!

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🚀 Features

• 🧠 GPT-powered cat brain
• 📱 SMS support via Twilio
• 🐍 Built with Flask
• 🔐 Uses .env file to keep secrets safe

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⚙️ Setup

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/text-a-cat.git
cd text-a-cat

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add your environment variables

Create a .env file:

OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-api-key
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=ACxxxxxxxx
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=your_token

4. Run it locally

python app.py

Or with Gunicorn:

gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:5000 app:app

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🐾 Contributing

Want to teach the cat new tricks? Open a PR or meow at the issues tab.

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📜 License

MIT — do what you want, just don't blame the cat.

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❤️ Made with love, yarn, and AI

💵 Help fund this project to pay for Twilio and OpenAI! If I hit ~$20 a month, I will make my Text-a-Cat number public!