shandilya21/astrox

An AI chatbot designed for astronomy and space enthusiast using Rasa

🚀 astro X - AI Bot

An AI bot designed to explore and study about Astronomy and developed using Rasa. Astronomy was always an exciting topics to almost everyone. Inspired by the beauty of space, the objective is to make the far-away stars, galaxies, planets more accessible to people who want to learn general questions about planets, space science and become connected to the night sky overhead.

How to Install Rasa

Requires Python 3.6 - 3.7 and pip >= 19.0.

• Rasa currently support 3.6 - 3.7 version You can install Rasa Open Source using pip. Before proceeding for Rasa, kindly setup the enviornment as mention below

Create a virtual env using virtualenv (Ubuntu)

• Create a virtual enviornment selecting python intrepreter as virutalenv -p <path of python 3.6 /3.7> <name_of_virtual_env>. Incase you don't have virtualenv install it using sudo pip3 install -U virtualenv.
• check the pip version (pip>0.19). Incase lower version, upgrade the pip version using pip install --upgrade pip.

Create a virtual env using Anaconda (Ubuntu)

• Install Anaconda, if not installed in your system from (Conda).
• After successful installation run conda create -n <name_of_virtual_env>. Add/Update the version of python in conda path, version supported (3.6 - 3.7).

Install Rasa

$ pip install rasa

Setup astroX bot 🚀

Clone the repository for astroX bot

$ git clone https://github.com/Shandilya21/astroX.git
$ cd astroX
$ pip install -r requirement.txt

Rasa Server

To run the astroX bot and begins the exciting space adventures, fast you seat belt and run

rasa run --enable-api --cors '*'

Rasa Action Server

rasa run actions --actions actions

Credentials and Deployment

• Incase of using credentials (host on channels such as facebook messenger, slack, etc.) kindly follow the Rasa Official (Docs)

• For deploying this Rasa Assistant, you can use one line deployment script that install Kubernetes cluster on your machine with sensible defaults. For more in details, search the Rasa official (Docs)

curl -s get-rasa-x.rasa.com | sudo bash

References

• Rasa (Docs)

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. If you know how to make this code better, please open an issue. If you want to submit a pull request, please open an issue first.

TODO

• Add more data related to space science.
• Add space science quiz session.