cleverbotfree 2.1.1

Free Alternative For The Cleverbot API

cleverbotfree

Cleverbot.com used to have a free API for their chatbot application. They have
removed their free API in place of a tiered subscription API service.
cleverbotfree is a free alternative to that API that uses a headless Firefox
browser to communicate with their chatbot application. You can use this module
to create applications/bots that send and receive messages to the Cleverbot
chatbot application.

Installation

Requirments

• node >= 14.16.1
• Python >= 3.8.0
• python3-pip >= 21.1.1

Once requirments are met, you can install this library through pip.

pip install cleverbotfree

Drivers

This library uses the Playwright library to interface the Cleverbot website
with a headless Firefox browser.
To download the Playwright Firefox browser binary simply run this command after
installing cleverbotfree:

playwright install firefox

Usage

Examples

Example of a simple CLI script that creates a single use, one message chat session.

import asyncio
import cleverbotfree

def chat():
    """Example code using cleverbotfree sync api."""
    with cleverbotfree.sync_playwright() as p_w:
        c_b = cleverbotfree.Cleverbot(p_w)
        user_input = input("User: ")
        response = c_b.single_exchange(user_input)
        print("Cleverbot:", response)
        c_b.browser.close()

chat()

async def aysnc_chat():
    """Example code using cleverbotfree async api."""
    async with cleverbotfree.async_playwright() as p_w:
        c_b = await cleverbotfree.CleverbotAsync(p_w)
        user_input = input("User: ")
        response = await c_b.single_exchange(user_input)
        print("Cleverbot:", response)
        await c_b.browser.close()

asyncio.run(async_chat())

Example of a simple CLI script that creates a persistent chat session untill closed.

import asyncio
import cleverbotfree

def chat():
    with cleverbotfree.sync_playwright() as p_w:
        c_b = cleverbotfree.Cleverbot(p_w)
        while True:
            user_input = input("User: ")
            if user_input == 'quit':
                break
            c_b.send_input(user_input)
            bot = c_b.get_response()
            print('Cleverbot:', bot)
        c_b.browser.close()

chat()

async def async_chat():
    """Example code using cleverbotfree async api."""
    async with cleverbotfree.async_playwright() as p_w:
        c_b = await cleverbotfree.CleverbotAsync(p_w)
        while True:
            user_input = input("User: ")
            if user_input == 'quit':
                break
            await c_b.send_input(user_input)
            bot = await c_b.get_response()
            print('Cleverbot:', bot)
        await c_b.browser.close()

asyncio.run(async_chat())