Error 403

[Akulen]

I installed clvrbot and launched it on the freenode irc However, it's alway responding Error: 403. Do you know why ?

[clux]

Hey, it was having some issues the last two weeks as well. The module cleverbot-irc is using is just a wrapper around the web scraper cleverbot-node. There was a bit of a cat and mouse game (#1) between operators of the cleverbot website and that module trying to pretend they really were the website trying to use their API without paying, but 403 indicates they may have fixed it.

Essentially the bot may be broken for a while if this is the case.

[clux]

Okay, someone has found a fix for it. I'll publish once the dependency is updated, but for now you can update package json to rely on the fork with the fix:

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f350b93..7a83666 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "dye": "~0.2.0",
     "gu": "~0.3.0",
     "irc-stream": "~0.0.7",
-    "cleverbot-node": "~0.1.2",
+    "cleverbot-node": "bluesatin/cleverbot-node",
     "suncalc": "~1.2.1",
     "irc-colors": "~1.0.3",
     "confortable": "~0.2.1"

then npm install

[bluesatin]

I think the update is now put on NPM, so I don't think the 403 error should be an issue any more.

[clux]

Thanks for the update, been using the fork for the last two weeks and forgot about this issue :] cleverbot-irc@0.3.1 has the fix.