Cleverbot Scraper

Simple free cleverbot library that doesn't require running a heavy ram wasting headless web browser to actually chat with the bot, only relying on the requests module. The api is wrapped by the Cleverbot class and you can use the send module to receive responses from cleverbot.

Try it

Install and test with:

pip3 install cleverbot-scraper
python3 -m cleverbot

The last command will start a live session with the cleverbot.

You can also make cleverbot chat with itself with:

python3 -m cleverbot auto

Examples

Chat with the bot

from cleverbot import Cleverbot
bot = Cleverbot()
print("Start the conversation, press Ctrl-c to stop \n")
try:
    while True:
        print(bot.send(input(">> ")))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print("Exiting.")

Make the bot chat with itself

from cleverbot import Cleverbot
alice = Cleverbot()
bob = Cleverbot()
message = "Hi there! How are you doing?"
print("Press Ctrl-c to stop \n")
try:
    while True:
        print("Bob: ", message)
        message = alice.send(message)
        print("Alice: ", message)
        message = bob.send(message)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print("Exiting.")

Use proxies

If cleverbot.com is returning 403 errors for you you might want to use a proxy:

from cleverbot import Cleverbot
bot = Cleverbot(proxies={'http': 'http://x.x.x.x:yyyy', 'https': 'http://x.x.x.x:yyyy'})
while True: print(bot.send(input(">> ")))

You can also simply pass a list of ip:port:

from cleverbot import Cleverbot
PROXIES = [
    None,
    "x.x.x.x:yyyy",
    "x.x.x.x:yyyy",
    "x.x.x.x:yyyy",
    "x.x.x.x:yyyy",
    "x.x.x.x:yyyy",
]
bot = Cleverbot(proxies=PROXIES)
while True: print(bot.send(input(">> ")))

Use tor as a fallback

Requires torpy with requests extra:

pip3 install torpy[requests]

from cleverbot import Cleverbot
bot = Cleverbot(use_tor_fallback = True)
while True: print(bot.send(input(">> ")))