Intelli Bot

Minimal chatbot using Django

How to Run

Option1 - Using Docker

• cd localdir

cd chatbot

• Build the docker image

docker build -t chatbot:v1.0 .

• Run the docker image

docker run -p 8000:8000 chatbot:v1.0

This will start the server and you can find the bot by browsing to http://localhost:8000/chat/

Option 2 - Without Docker

• Install Python 3.x if not already
• Create virtual env

cd chatbot
python3 -m venv venv

• activate the env

source venv/bin/activate

• Now install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

• prepare DB

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py makemigrations intellibot
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py migrate intellibot

• To load static Questions data into DB

python3 manage.py loaddata Question.json

• We disabled the DEBUG mode in settings s using whitenoise to serve the static files

python3 manage.py collectstatic

• Execute unit tests (if required)

python manage.py test intellibot/tests

• Run the server

python3 manage.py runserver

Now you can access the bot at http://127.0.0.1:8000/chat/

Inspiration

The codebase makes use of Django Channels and is based on the documentation here

Desired Improvements

Due to lack of time it was not feasible to integrate with a machine learning service like Azure's Bot Service or Amazon's Lex or any other Natural Language Processing (NLP) service which could help in finding intents and result in a much more effective bot.