Book Recommendation Chatbot

A simple chatbot web app built with Flask that recommends books based on user preferences (by genre or author). The chatbot maintains a short conversation flow and suggests books from a dataset.

📂 Project Structure

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├── Books_recommender.ipynb
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── __pycache__
├── app.py
├── assets
│   ├── books_1.Best_Books_Ever.csv
│   ├── books_modified.csv
│   └── glove.twitter.27B.50d.txt
├── books_recommender.py
├── requirements.txt
├── static
└── templates
    └── chat.html

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/GraceCeline/BookChatbot.git
cd book-chatbot

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the app

python app.py

4. Open in browser

   Go to 👉 http://127.0.0.1:5000

5. Alternative: run

python books_recommender.py

to run the program in the terminal. Note that the program in the terminal is slightly different than Flask app.