BuyBuddy

The BuyBuddy is a Chat Bot that utilizes the ChatGPT language model to provide users with information and assistance related to online shopping and e-commerce. It is designed to engage in natural language conversations and help users with various e-commerce-related queries, such as finding products, making purchase recommendations, answering shopping-related questions, and more. This documentation outlines how to set up, configure, and use BuyBuddy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Installation

3. Configuration

4. Usage

5. Contributions

Introduction

The Ecommerce Chatbot is a conversational AI application built using the ChatGPT language model developed by OpenAI. Its primary purpose is to assist users with e-commerce-related inquiries and engage in meaningful conversations to provide shopping recommendations, tips, and information.

Features

• Natural Language Understanding: The bot is trained to understand and respond to a wide range of e-commerce and shopping-related queries in natural language.

• Product Recommendations: The bot can suggest products based on user preferences, search queries, or browsing history.

• Shopping Assistance: Users can ask for assistance with making purchases, finding the best deals, and tracking orders.

• Product Information: The bot can provide detailed information about products, including specifications, prices, and customer reviews.

• Shopping Tips: Users can inquire about shopping tips, discount codes, and online shopping best practices.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or later
• OpenAI GPT-3 API Key (Sign up on the OpenAI website to obtain an API key)
• Textbase - Textbase is a framework for building chatbots using NLP and ML.
• Poetry (you might have to install Poetry first).

Installation Steps

1. Clone the repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/deveshXm/E-Commerce-Chatbot.git
poetry shell
poetry install

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd travel-bot

3. Install Dependencies

poetry shell
poetry install

Configuration

Before running the Travel Bot, you need to configure the API key for the OpenAI GPT-3 API, Airtable Key, Rapid API Key

Replace the following with API Keys in .env

OPENAI_API_KEY="openai_api_key"
RAPID_API_KEY="rapid_api_key"

Usage

Running the Bot:

poetry run python textbase/textbase_cli.py test main.py

Now go to http://localhost:4000 and start chatting with your bot! The bot will automatically reload when you change the code.

User Interactions

Engage in natural language conversations with the bot. For example:

• "I want to buy a shaving creamm?"

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or a pull request.