Club chatbot

Instructions to get the Chatterbot working Step 1. First make sure you are using a version of Python 3 or newer. To check your version of Python use this command:

python --version

A link to get or update Python https://www.python.org/downloads/

That command will tell you what version you are using. The newest version of Python is Python 3.10 which was released 2021-10-04

Step 2. Installing the ChatterBot from your command line or terminal by using this command:

pip install chatterbot

Step 3. This step is going to be different depending on what type of IDE you are using for Python. For PyCharm you are going to want to select file, navigate to settings, select Python Interrupter, and select add the plus sign. Once you have done that search for chatterbot and chatterbot-corpus add both.

A link to get Pycharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Step 4. You will want to first locally run the "trainBot.py" file to train the chatbot. This will train the chat bot with the specified corpus file.

Step 5. You can then run the "chatbot.py" file to begin chatting with the chat bot.