Slack_MovieBot

This is a chatbot created using Slack platform and IBM Watson Assistant for NLP processing.
It uses a recommendation system (metadata based collaborative filtering) to suggest similar movies with their IMDB links and posters.
It also addresses below queries:-
- Movie Overview
- Movie Genre
- Budget
- Revenue
- Ratings
- No. of votes/Voter Count
- IMDB Link
- TMDB Link
- Check for adult content
- Recommendation for similar movies

MovieBot setup prerequisites:-

Install the required python libraries (used Python 3.9.0 in this case) mentioned in requirements.txt file
- pandas==1.1.4
- slackclient==1.2.1
- watson-developer-cloud>=2.4.0
- nltk==3.5
- sklearn==0.23.2
- joblib==0.17.0
Create a Slack classic app Click here and install it to your Slack workspace.
Make a note of "Verification Token" and "Bot User OAuth Token".
Setup IBM Watson Assitant Click here , create a dialog skill and add intent and entites.
Make a note of "Assistant API Key" and "Assistant skill Id".
Integrate Watson Assistant with Slack Click here

Clone this project and update config files for "Verification Token", "Bot User OAuth Token", "Assistant API Key" and "Assistant skill Id".
Execute collabFilter.py present under nlp/recommendation_Sys so as to generate a .joblib file storing the variables, matrices to be used for recommendation system.
Run main.py and you will get a message 'MovieBot connected and running!' on successful connection.