This is a RiveScript interpreter for the Python programming language. RiveScript is a scripting language for chatterbots, making it easy to write trigger/response pairs for building up a bot's intelligence.
Historically, this library supported both Python 2 and Python 3 until the day that Python 2 entered end-of-life status which happened on January 1, 2020.
The final version with Python 2 support is v1.14.9 which you may still install from PyPI if you need to support a Python2 environment. Going forward, RiveScript releases will target modern, supported releases of the Python 3 language. Today, this means Python 3.6 and newer.
# Python2 last supported version of RiveScript is 1.14.9
pip install rivescript==1.14.9Module documentation is available at http://rivescript.readthedocs.org/
Also check out the RiveScript Community Wiki for common design patterns and tips & tricks for RiveScript.
This module is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip:
pip install rivescript
To install manually, download or clone the git repository and run
python setup.py install
There are examples available in the eg/ directory of this project on GitHub that show how to interface with a RiveScript bot in a variety of ways--such as through the Twilio SMS API--and other code snippets and useful tricks.
The rivescript module can be executed as a stand-alone Python script, or
included in other Python code. When executed directly, it launches an
interactive chat session:
python rivescript ./eg/brain
In case running RiveScript as a script is inconvenient (for example, when it's
installed as a system module) you can use the shell.py script as an alias:
python shell.py eg/brain
When used as a library, the synopsis is as follows:
from rivescript import RiveScript
bot = RiveScript()
bot.load_directory("./eg/brain")
bot.sort_replies()
while True:
msg = raw_input('You> ')
if msg == '/quit':
quit()
reply = bot.reply("localuser", msg)
print 'Bot>', replyThe scripts example.py and example3.py provide simple examples for using
RiveScript as a library for Python 2 and 3, respectively.
RiveScript supports Unicode but it is not enabled by default. Enable it by
passing a True value for the utf8 option in the constructor, or by using the
--utf8 argument to the standalone interactive mode.
In UTF-8 mode, most characters in a user's message are left intact, except for
certain metacharacters like backslashes and common punctuation characters like
/[.,!?;:]/.
If you want to override the punctuation regexp, you can provide a new one by
assigning the unicode_punctuation attribute of the bot object after
initialization. Example:
import re
bot = RiveScript(utf8=True)
bot.unicode_punctuation = re.compile(r'[.,!?;:]')Regardless of whether UTF-8 mode is on, all input messages given to the bot
are converted (if needed) to Python's unicode data type. So, while it's
good practice to make sure you're providing Unicode strings to the bot, the
library will have you covered if you forget.
The rivescript package, when run stand-alone, supports "JSON Mode", where
you communicate with the bot using JSON. This is useful for third-party
programs that want to use RiveScript but don't have an interpreter in their
native language.
Just run it like: python rivescript --json /path/to/brain
Print a JSON encoded data structure into the standard input. The format should look like this:
{ "username": "localuser", "message": "Hello bot!", "vars": { "name": "Aiden" } }
After sending this, you can send an EOF signal and the bot will respond with
a JSON response and then exit. Or, you can keep the session open, by sending
the string __END__ on a line by itself after your input. The bot will do the
same when it responds, so you can reuse the same pipe for multiple
interactions.
The bot's response will be formatted like so:
{ "status": "ok", "reply": "Hello, human!", "vars": { "name": "Aiden" } }
The status will be ok on success, or error if there was an error. The
reply is the bot's response (or an error message on error).
- Noah Petherbridge
- Arash Saidi
- Danilo Bargen
- FujiMakoto
- Hung Tu Dinh
- Julien Syx
- Pablo
- Peixuan (Shawn) Ding
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Copyright (c) 2020 Noah Petherbridge
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The official RiveScript website, http://www.rivescript.com/