python-command-line-chat-gpt

ChatGPT is a Python script that uses the OpenAI API to generate responses based on user input on the command line. This script can be used to create chatbots or conversational agents for a variety of purposes.

Readme.md

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Welcome to ChatGPT on the command line uses with API!

I'm Rangersmyth (internet name), and I'm currently learning Python and Bash coding.

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a Python script that uses the OpenAI API to generate responses based on user input. This script can be used to create chatbots or conversational agents for a variety of purposes.

Installation

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/davidtkeane/python-command-line-chat-gpt.git
2. Install the required dependencies using pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. FYI - I had to manually type pip3 install openai and pip3 install dotenv also as I was getting an error even when i used pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Add your own OpenAi API key to your .env file, but first rename test.env to .env to make this work.https://platform.openai.com/
5. Free for a certain time, then 5 Euros a month, but I have had this for a few months now and I have only clocked up €1.87 cents so far. I use https://chat.openai.com/ for most work, but love using my terminal and console!
6. Go run the file, see below. 🍔

Nix Users

If you use Nix, you can set up the development environment automatically:

nix-shell

This will provide Python with all required dependencies — no pip install needed.

Usage

To start a conversation with the chatbot, run the following command: python chatgpt.py

1. When you first run the file it will create a new chatgpt-chat.txt file where all of the questions you have asked will be sent to the txt file for reference later on.

The script will prompt you for input and generate a response based on your input. To end the conversation, type "no" or "nothing".

Improvements

Here are a few suggestions for improving the script:

• Add error handling to gracefully handle API errors or other issues.
• Implement a caching mechanism to reduce API usage and improve response times.
• Add more options for configuring the OpenAI API parameters, such as temperature, max_tokens, and top_p.
• Implement a GUI or web interface for the chatbot instead of a command-line interface.

Requirements.txt

Here is the requirements.txt file that includes the necessary modules for running the script:

openai
dotenv
requests
termcolor
tqdm

Changelog

2025-07-05 — Community Contributions

• Fixed missing imports in chatgpt.py — added sleep, colored, and tqdm imports that were causing runtime errors. (PR #1 by @Endermanbugzjfc)
• Fixed README typo — corrected pip3 install direnv to pip3 install dotenv. (PR #1 by @Endermanbugzjfc)
• Added Nix dev-shell — shell.nix for reproducible development environment with all dependencies. (PR #2 by @Endermanbugzjfc)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project!

• @Endermanbugzjfc — Bug fixes, Nix support