The AntiCorruptionBot is a WhatsApp chatbot built using Flask, Chatterbot Python library and Twilio. The chatbot has been trained on an edited conversation using material from this source in order to answer specific questions about corruption offences, anticorruption laws and institutions in Romania.

Set-up

In order to run the project locally, you will need to take the following steps:

1. git clone project on your local machine
2. create virtual environment in Terminal or Command Prompt: python -m venv anticorruption-bot
3. activate virtual environment:
   • Mac command: source anticorruption-bot/bin/activate
   • Windows command: anticorruption-bot\Scripts\activate
4. install Poetry dependency management tool
5. install requirements: poetry install
6. change database_uri in line 11 of bot.py module to your database location, or remove to use default sqlite3 database.
7. sign up to Twilio & follow instructions
8. download ngrok
9. in the Terminal/Command Prompt window where you activated the virtual env, run command: python3 bot.py
10. open new Terminal/Command Prompt window, cd in the folder where you unzipped ngrok download, run command: ngrok http 500
11. copy-paste the http ngrok URL mapped to localhost:5000 in Twilio WhatsApp Sandbox Settings, against the input required for WHEN A MESSAGE COMES IN form field.

Enjoy!