🔥 AI Movie Character Chatbot

📌 Project Overview

This project is a chatbot that interacts as movie characters based on real movie scripts. It progressively improves by integrating database storage, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), vector search, caching, scaling, and deployment.

🎯 Goals:

• Allow users to chat with movie characters in a realistic manner.
• Retrieve dialogues from movie scripts before generating AI responses.
• Scale the system to handle high traffic efficiently.
• Deploy a production-ready chatbot with WebSocket support for real-time interaction.

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🚀 Setup & Installation

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Shiraz-2022/movbot.git
cd movie-chatbot

2️⃣ Install Dependencies

npm install

3️⃣ Run in Development Mode

npm run dev

4️⃣ Run in Production Mode

npm start

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🌍 Deployment Details

• Production URL: http://ec2-13-200-15-25.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com
• Localhost: http://localhost:3000

Switch Base URL in API Requests Accordingly!

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🏗️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB
• AI Model: OpenAI GPT API
• Vector Search: Pinecone
• Caching & Scaling: Redis
• WebSockets: Socket.io
• Deployment: AWS EC2
• Queue: Bull
• Load test: K6
• Scrapping: Cheerio

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📜 Movie Script Handling

• Scripts are scraped & stored in a database.
• Dialogue retrieval is prioritized over AI-generated responses.
• Script source: The Social Network

🔗 Additional Resources

• API Documentation: See API_DOCS.md
• Movie Script Source:
  • IMSDb