Update for new API

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Tried it but it seems the old scraping doesn't work anymore.

I'm including a new version with an ugly quick fix that uses the new API.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by olle.joh...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 7:36

Attachments:

• cleverbot.py

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Please remove this update posting. As it states at cleverbot.com 
"Conversational access is granted only to humans using this Cleverbot.com 
interface directly".  Cleverbot serving is expensive, and not open for any and 
every usage.  Contact us via cleverbot's feedback link if you want to ask 
further.

Original comment by rollocar...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 10:17

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Sorry, didn't see that text, had to search through the entire page until I 
found it in a almost unreadable color in microscopic font at the bottom. Have 
removed the file, but can't seem to remove the issue altogether.

Original comment by olle.joh...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2011 at 7:13

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Thank you.

Original comment by rollocar...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2011 at 10:06

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With all due respect, you haven't provided an API to incorporate Cleverbot into 
custom projects. Honestly, I see this as no different than using your html 
scripts to incorporate Cleverbot on websites. I do understand that it is 
expensive to maintain your server but how is this script different from using 
your html scripts?

Forgive me if I appear to be rude. I simply wish to clear up this 
misunderstanding.

Original comment by DJKMan2...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 12:28

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Please remove all these postings and this code.  Your code is entirely 
different to my own firstly for the very obvious reason that it is explicitly 
stated as disallowed by the creator, owner, and maintainer of Cleverbot (me!), 
and secondly because it enables any number of misuses by others. It will also 
not work for much longer.

Original comment by rollocar...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2011 at 5:25

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Just for clarification, in what way can this bot be misused? Any technology 
that can improve can just as easily be misused. If we were to live in fear of 
misuse all of our lives for every sort of technology, we would never progress. 

With all due respect, Mr. Carpenter, I am trying to understand the seriousness 
of the situation and why it is an issue to have an API for Cleverbot? I noticed 
that Dr. Wallace's Alice AIML files have been publicly used in several 
different applications and they were rather amusing as well as educational 
rather than harmful. I see the same potential for Cleverbot.

Original comment by DJKMan2...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2011 at 11:09

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I'd also like to understand the seriousness of this situation. Another thing - 
if conversational access is granted to humans only using the website interface 
directly, then you are violating your own terms of service by allowing the 
iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone apps to use Cleverbot indirectly. Mr. 
Carpenter, please at least clarify your terms. 

I also stand the same way on the "misuses" issue. Please clarify this as well.

Mr. Carpenter, I respect your work. It's really quite interesting and is the 
only chatbot I've seen with "intelligence." If you don't want more user-created 
API's, the only efficient solution is to make one yourself and make it public. 
I'm not trying to be rude, just please clarify these things.

Thank you.

Original comment by foxwilso...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 9:07