404 on Cleverbot about chatter-bot-api

[pierredavidbelanger]

You are right,
even in the browser, http://www.cleverbot.com/webservicemin is giving me a 404.

Either CleverBot is down momentarily, or they changed their WebService so we can no longer use it.

[PhoenixICE]

http://www.cleverbot.com/webservicemin is giving me DENIED +3000_cbfull atm hmm...

[robomaeyhem]

Looks like Jabberwacky is also returning 404 via http://www.existor.com/webservicemin

[sbwMikael]

That ends my confusion, at least. I stumbled across this project earlier today, and had started work on integrating it into a game, but couldn't understand why I wasn't getting any bot responses. I'll keep coming back for updates, but I hope this is only a temporary state of affairs.

[pierredavidbelanger]

I will take a look at this problem today.

Any update on this? Is this api done?

[pierredavidbelanger]

Yeah, their web service was changed.
I will need to reverse engineer the flow once again.
This will take some time.

When you visit the cleverbot.com website and after that http://www.cleverbot.com/webservicemin isn't returning 404 anymore. But "DENIED +3000_cbfull" not sure whats this about...
Any Idea?

When is this going to be fixed? :(

[wardellbagby]

@pierredavidbelanger You might want to look into this. I have a bot that uses Hangouts, and I was using a cleverbot api for it. One of my forks came up with a fix for the api I was uses; they saved the cookies and it worked. Check out this commit here:

wardellbagby/HangoutsBot@42d9001

[pierredavidbelanger]

@wardellchandler
Nice, I will try this as soon as I find a couple minutes.

It worked! Awesome :)

Pull request. Maybe not beautiful but works :) #10

[robomaeyhem]

Any word on a Java solution?

[pierredavidbelanger]

I have a working fix for the Java version.
I will push it (in Github and Maven Central) this evening (around 20h, this is in about 3 or 4 hours).

[sbwMikael]

Thanks very much for the updates, really appreciate it. My PHP experience is really limited so I don't know how relevant this is, but I made one small change to the updated chatterbotapi.php on line 164 because I was getting a script warning about "split" being deprecated, so I just swapped this for "explode".

[pierredavidbelanger]

Its deployed on maven. It should be visible anytime soon.

[robomaeyhem]

Jabberwacky comes back as an empty string every time in Java it seems

[remiscarlet]

Any information on the python side of things being updated?

[pierredavidbelanger]

I am sorry guys, I did not had the time to really fix every port of the library.
I can not give you an ETA either.

Feel free to contribute :)

The fix is really simple:

1. The Session object now have a new variable to hold the cookies
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Cleverbot.java#L40

2. When a new Session is created, the variable is initialized
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Cleverbot.java#L50

3. And a GET is issued to Cleverbot the get all the cookies:
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Cleverbot.java#L52

4. The request method in the Utils class, now take care of reading the cookie from the response:
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Utils.java#L81

5. Then, when the think method is called, we issue a request using the Session cookies:
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Cleverbot.java#L66

6. The request method in the Utils class also take care of sending cookies:
   https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/chatter-bot-api/blob/master/java/src/main/java/com/google/code/chatterbotapi/Utils.java#L63

[sbwMikael]

EDIT: obviously I should have waited a bit longer to confirm this (sorry for the email alerts). Apparently it was a temporary problem and things are working again now. But I'll probably deactivate it (on our game server) for the time-being all the same.

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Seems something has changed again? Or else I'm experiencing localised troubles. But as of an hour ago or so, I was initially getting just ads for something called "Clevertweet" and then blank responses.

I think I'll bow out now though. I just wanted to add botchat as a feature for visitors to our game server during slow periods, but it's not something we can't live without. Thanks for the project

[pierredavidbelanger]

The simple PHP version is also fixed.

[pierredavidbelanger]

Also fixed in the python version.

[robomaeyhem]

Jabberwacky still looks like it's returning an empty String in the Java version, regardless of what is inputted

[pierredavidbelanger]

Also fixed in the .NET version thanks to @KSemenenko 's nice Pull Request.
He bump the .NET requirement from 2.0 to 4.5 though.
I hope everyone using the .NET version is ok with this.

[AldeRoberge]

Java is still not working

[pierredavidbelanger]

@iObsidian I just tried the example code with the latest maven version and it worked.

Ensure you are using the latest version, and If it still does not work for you, please open a new issue with a description of what you are doing, what you expect, what you see instead and ideally a stack trace if you have one.

[AldeRoberge]

Hey Pierre, thanks for answering! Pandora bots works while clever bot doesn't. Thanks for your time :)