ChatterBot: Build a Chatbot with Python

This repository contains code related to the tutorial on building a Python chatbot with ChatterBot.

Create and activate a virtual environment, then install the necessary dependencies:

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Then you can navigate into the folder source_code_final/ and train and start the interactive command-line interface chatbot by running bot.py:

(venv) $ cd source_code_final
(venv) $ python bot.py

After training, you'll see an interactive prompt that you can chat with:

> hi
🪴 Welcome, friend 🤗
> thanks for the green welcome
🪴 I let you
> you let me be here?
🪴 It's a monsters!
> did you mean monstera?
🪴 The leafs that she had are getting dryer and dryer. But she’s also growing plenty of new ones
> who?
🪴 Do raindrops touch their leaves?
> very philosophical!
🪴 Lol
> ;)
🪴 I don't grow any crop at home
> no crops in pots
🪴 Ah, gotcha!

The bot will learn from the replies you give and improve its accuracy. You can quit the interactive prompt by typing any of the exit_conditions defined in bot.py.

You'll find the code for each step of the tutorial in a separate folder. The folders also include a SQLite database that contains the different phases of training at each step. Because of this, you can inspect the project at different stages and notice how it evolves when you add more data and interactions.