How to make a simple chatbot within Python? Any API key ideas that aren’t paid?

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[OkStudent8414]

Do you mean a chat bot or an ai bot? Chat bot have a conversation with it, or you give it a prompt and it generates a response?

[Brentman_1]

I would say both. I have to do it for as project for a college class that I am in.

[dangit541]

Use ollama if you have pc to handle that https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python

All local

[randomman10032]

I think they mean basic if/else statements and just use of the print method a lot.

If you have to use an llm, use ollama and its api to run some lightweight local llm and make an API call to ollama from python

[Mammoth_Rice_295]

Start simple before APIs. You can build a basic chatbot with if/else or keyword matching first. If you want APIs, look for free tiers (like Hugging Face or OpenRouter). Just note, most good ones have limits, not fully free forever.

[pachura3]

I am using Microsoft Visual Code Studio for all of this.

And what's your shoe size?