imessage_bot

Currently stuck in quarentine and am very bored. On my list of morally-gray things to do, I've always wanted to create a chatbot which immitates me for when I'm socially drained.

This bot trains on previous iMessage data.

Installaiton

You need to install...

• chatterbot

Setup

1. Go into System Preferences -> Security -> Full Disk Access and give Terminal permissions.
2. Go to /Users/{your username}/Library/Messages/chat.db and copy that file into the imessage_bot folder. I have .gitignore set to ignore all .db files so you don't have to worry about your personal info getting uploaded to GitHub.

How to use

Turn on chatbot for specific person.

1. Go into Training Chat Bot.ipynb, find index associated with target phone number
2. Create a config.json in imessage_bot directory

{
  "phone_number" : "+11231231234",
  "db_path" : "/Users/{your}/Library/Messages/chat.db",
  "train_db_path" : "./chat.db",
  "training_phone_number" : null
}

If training_phone_number == null, then it'll train on all messages. If not you can specifiy a contact to train on.

3. Start the bot:

python3 main.py

Improvements

• Find way to clean data
• Use better trainer (probably from transformers or NLTK)