Python Poe API

This is a reverse engineered API wrapper for Quora's Poe, which allows you free access to OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, as well as Antropic's Claude.

Features:

Log in with token
Proxy requests + websocket
Download bot list
Send messages
Stream bot responses
Clear conversation context
Download conversation history
Delete messages
Purge an entire conversation

Installation:

You can install this library by running the following command:

pip3 install poe-api

Documentation:

Examples can be found in the /examples directory. To run these examples, pass in your token as a command-line argument.

python3 examples/temporary_message.py "TOKEN_HERE"

Finding Your Token:

Log into Poe on any web browser, then open your browser's developer tools (also known as "inspect") and look for the value of the p-b cookie in the following menus:

Chromium: Devtools > Application > Cookies > poe.com
Firefox: Devtools > Storage > Cookies
Safari: Devtools > Storage > Cookies

Using the Client:

To use this library, simply import poe and create a poe.Client instance. The Client class accepts the following arguments:

token - The token to use.
proxy = None - The proxy to use, in the format protocol://host:port. The socks5/socks4 protocol is reccommended.

Regular Example:

import poe
client = poe.Client("TOKEN_HERE")

Proxied Example:

import poe
client = poe.Client("TOKEN_HERE", proxy="socks5://178.62.100.151:59166")

Note that the following examples assume client is the name of your poe.Client instance. If the token is invalid, a RuntimeError will be raised.

Downloading the Available Bots:

The client downloads all of the available bots upon initialization and stores them within client.bots. A dictionary that maps bot codenames to their display names can be found at client.bot_names. If you want to refresh these values, you can call client.get_bots. This function takes the following arguments:

download_next_data = True - Whether or not to redownload the __NEXT_DATA__, which is required if the bot list has changed.

print(client.bot_names)
#{'capybara': 'Sage', 'beaver': 'GPT-4', 'a2_2': 'Claude+', 'a2': 'Claude', 'chinchilla': 'ChatGPT', 'nutria': 'Dragonfly'}

Note that, on free accounts, Claude+ (a2_2) has a limit of 3 messages per day and GPT-4 (beaver) has a limit of 1 message per day. For all the other chatbots, there seems to be a rate limit of 10 messages per minute.

Creating New Bots:

You can create a new bot using the client.create_bot function, which accepts the following arguments:

handle - The handle of the new bot.
prompt = "" - The prompt for the new bot.
base_model = "chinchilla" - The model that the new bot uses. This must be either "chinchilla" (ChatGPT) or "a2" (Claude).
description = "" - The description for the new bot.
intro_message = "" - The intro message for the new bot. If this is an empty string then the bot will not have an intro message.
prompt_public = True - Whether or not the prompt should be publicly visible.
pfp_url = None - The URL for the bot's profile picture. Currently, there is no way to actually upload a custom image using this library.
linkification = False - Whether or not the bot should turn some text in the response into clickable links.
markdown_rendering = True - Whether or not to enable markdown rendering for the bot's responses.
suggested_replies = False - Whether or not the bot should suggest possible replies after each response.
private = False - Whether or not the bot should be private.

Additionally, there are some arguments that seem to be for the upcoming bot developer API. You do not need to specify these, although they may become useful in the future. The description for these arguments are currently my best guesses for what they do:

api_key = None - The API key for the new bot.
api_bot = False - Whether or not the bot has API functionally enabled.
api_url = None - The API URL for the new bot.

A full example of how to create and edit bots is located at examples/create_bot.py.

new_bot = client.create_bot(bot_name, "prompt goes here", base_model="a2")

Editing a Bot:

You can edit a custom bot using the client.edit_bot function, which accepts the following arguments:

bot_id - The botId of the bot to edit.
handle - The handle of the bot to edit.
prompt - The prompt for the new bot.
base_model = "chinchilla" - The new model that the bot uses. This must be either "chinchilla" (ChatGPT) or "a2" (Claude). Previously, it was possible to set this to "beaver" (GPT-4), which would bypass the free account restrictions, but this is now patched.
description = "" - The new description for the bot.
intro_message = "" - The new intro message for the bot. If this is an empty string then the bot will not have an intro message.
prompt_public = True - Whether or not the prompt should be publicly visible.
pfp_url = None - The URL for the bot's profile picture. Currently, there is no way to actually upload a custom image using this library.
linkification = False - Whether or not the bot should turn some text in the response into clickable links.
markdown_rendering = True - Whether or not to enable markdown rendering for the bot's responses.
suggested_replies = False - Whether or not the bot should suggest possible replies after each response.
private = False - Whether or not the bot should be private.

Unreleased bot developer API arguments:

api_key = None - The new API key for the bot.
api_url = None - The new API URL for the bot.

A full example of how to create and edit bots is located at examples/create_bot.py.

edit_result = client.edit_bot(1086981, "bot_handle_here", base_model="beaver")

Sending Messages:

You can use the client.send_message function to send a message to a chatbot, which accepts the following arguments:

chatbot - The codename of the chatbot. (example: capybara)
message - The message to send to the chatbot.
with_chat_break = False - Whether the conversation context should be cleared.
timeout = 20 - The max number of seconds in between recieved chunks until a RuntimeError is raised.

The function is a generator which returns the most recent version of the generated message whenever it is updated.

Streamed Example:

message = "Summarize the GNU GPL v3"
for chunk in client.send_message("capybara", message):
  print(chunk["text_new"], end="", flush=True)

Non-Streamed Example:

message = "Summarize the GNU GPL v3"
for chunk in client.send_message("capybara", message):
  pass
print(chunk["text"])

You can also send multiple messages in parallel using threading and recieve their responses seperately, as demonstrated in /examples/parallel_messages.py. Note that if you send messages too fast, the server will give an error, but the request will eventually succeed.

Clearing the Conversation Context:

If you want to clear the the context of a conversation without sending a message, you can use client.send_chat_break. The only argument is the codename of the bot whose context will be cleared.

client.send_chat_break("capybara")

The function returns the message which represents the chat break.

Downloading Conversation History:

To download past messages in a conversation, use the client.get_message_history function, which accepts the following arguments:

chatbot - The codename of the chatbot.
count = 25 - The number of messages to download.
cursor = None - The message ID to start at instead of the latest one.

Note that if you don't specify a cursor, the client will have to perform an extra request to determine what the latest cursor is.

The returned messages are ordered from oldest to newest.

message_history = client.get_message_history("capybara", count=10)
print(json.dumps(message_history, indent=2))
"""
[
  {
    "node": {
      "id": "TWVzc2FnZToxMDEwNzYyODU=",
      "messageId": 101076285,
      "creationTime": 1679298157718888,
      "text": "",
      "author": "chat_break",
      "linkifiedText": "",
      "state": "complete",
      "suggestedReplies": [],
      "vote": null,
      "voteReason": null,
      "__typename": "Message"
    },
    "cursor": "101076285",
    "id": "TWVzc2FnZUVkZ2U6MTAxMDc2Mjg1OjEwMTA3NjI4NQ=="
  },
  ...
]
"""

Deleting Messages:

To delete messages, use the client.delete_message function, which accepts a single argument. You can pass a single message ID into it to delete a single message, or you can pass a list of message IDs to delete multiple messages at once.

#delete a single message
client.delete_message(96105719)

#delete multiple messages at once
client.delete_message([96105719, 96097108, 96097078, 96084421, 96084402])

Purging a Conversation:

To purge an entire conversation, or just the last few messages, you can use the client.purge_conversation function. This function accepts the following arguments:

chatbot - The codename of the chatbot.
count = -1 - The number of messages to be deleted, starting from the latest one. The default behavior is to delete every single message.

#purge just the last 10 messages
client.purge_conversation("capybara", count=10)

#purge the entire conversation
client.purge_conversation("capybara")

Getting the Remaining Messages:

To get the number of messages remaining in the quota for a conversation, use the client.get_remaining_messages function. This function accepts the following arguments:

chatbot - The codename of the chatbot.

The function will return the number of messages remaining, or None if the bot does not have a quota.

Misc:

Changing the Logging Level:

If you want to show debug messages, simply call poe.logger.setLevel.

import poe
import logging
poe.logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

Setting a Custom User-Agent:

If you want to change the headers that are spoofed, set poe.headers after importing the library.

To use your browser's own headers, visit this site, and copy-paste its contents.

import poe
poe.headers = {
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0",
  "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
  "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
  "Te": "trailers",
  "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1"
}

The following headers will be ignored and overwritten:

{
  "Referrer": "https://poe.com/",
  "Origin": "https://poe.com",
  "Host": "poe.com",
  "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
  "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
  "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin"
}

Previously, this was done through poe.user_agent, but that variable is now completely ignored.

Copyright:

This program is licensed under the GNU GPL v3. Most code, with the exception of the GraphQL queries, has been written by me, ading2210.

Reverse engineering the poe-tag-id header has been done by xtekky in PR #39.

The client.get_remaining_messages function was written by Snowad14 in PR #46.

Most of the GraphQL queries are taken from muharamdani/poe, which is licenced under the ISC License.

Copyright Notice:

ading2210/poe-api: a reverse engineered Python API wrapepr for Quora's Poe
Copyright (C) 2023 ading2210

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