Class: RubyCleverbot

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb

Overview

cleverbot api

Constant Summary collapse

HOST = 
'http://www.cleverbot.com'.freeze
RESOURCE = 
'/webservicemin'.freeze
API_URL = 
HOST + RESOURCE
HEADERS = 
{
    'user_agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36',
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3',
    'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
    'Pragma': 'no-cache'
}

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ RubyCleverbot

Returns a new instance of RubyCleverbot.



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 31

def initialize
  @coder = HTMLEntities.new
  @data = {
      'stimulus': '',
      'start': 'y',
      'sessionid': '',
      'vText8': '',
      'vText7': '',
      'vText6': '',
      'vText5': '',
      'vText4': '',
      'vText3': '',
      'vText2': '',
      'icognoid': 'wsf',
      'icognocheck': '',
      'fno': 0,
      'prevref': '',
      'cb_settings_language': 'es',
      'emotionaloutput': '',
      'emotionalhistory': '',
      'asbotname': '',
      'ttsvoice': '',
      'typing': '',
      'lineref': '',
      'sub': 'Say',
      'islearning': 1,
      'cleanslate': 'False',
  }
  #get the cookies
  response = make_get(HOST)
  @cookies = response.cookies
  @conversation = []
end

Instance Attribute Details

#coder ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute coder.



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 29

def coder
  @coder
end

#conversation ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute conversation.



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 28

def conversation
  @conversation
end

#cookies ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute cookies.



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 26

def cookies
  @cookies
end

#data ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute data.



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 27

def data
  @data
end

Instance Method Details

#make_get(url) ⇒ Object

call a get method



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 66

def make_get(url)
  RestClient::Request.execute method: :get, url: url, headers: HEADERS, cookies: cookies
end

#make_post(url, json) ⇒ Object

call a post method



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 71

def make_post(url, json)
  # RestClient.post url, json, headers
  RestClient::Request.execute method: :post, url: url,payload: URI.encode_www_form(json), headers: HEADERS, cookies: cookies
end

#send_message(question) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 76

def send_message(question)
  # the current question
  data[:stimulus] = question

  # set data, for the conversation
  set_conversation

  # we need the token
  enc_data = URI.encode_www_form(data)
  token = Digest::MD5.hexdigest enc_data[9..34]
  data[:icognocheck] = token
  # puts "the token is #{data[:icognocheck]}"

  response = make_post(API_URL, data)

  clever_response = response.to_str.split(/[\r]+/)

  # see HTML encoding of foreign language characters
  clever_response[0] = coder.decode(clever_response[0])

  # add the log
  conversation << question
  # add response from cleverbot to conversation
  conversation << clever_response[0]

  # return the response
  clever_response[0]
end

#set_conversation ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/ruby_cleverbot.rb', line 105

def set_conversation
  unless conversation.empty?
    count = 1
    conversation.first(8).reverse_each do |line|
      count += 1
      data[('vText' + count.to_s).to_sym] = line
    end
  end
end