ape-genius

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Runnig your own bot

1. Replace knowledge_base.txt with your own knowledgebase

Here is a handy python function that can help you take an entire repo and concatenate all files in a single .txt with all files contents and paths:

# Function to concatenate files into a single .txt file
def concatenate_files(dir_name, output_filename):
    with open(output_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as output_file:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir_name):
            for file in files:
                if file.endswith('.lock'): # Ignore large files that adds nothing to overall knowledge
                    continue
                file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
                try:
                    with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
                        output_file.write('######## ' + file_path + '\n\n')
                        output_file.write(f.read() + '\n\n')
                except Exception as e:
                    print(f"Skipping non-text file or error reading file: {file_path} - {e}")

# Example Call
concatenate_files(dir_name, 'knowledge_base.txt')

2. Set OPENAI_API_KEY and TELEGRAM_TOKEN environment variables.

• OPENAI_API_KEY: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys
• TELEGRAM_TOKEN: https://t.me/BotFather

3. Override instructions and owner id to fit your usage.

• You can find your owner id with https://t.me/username_to_id_bot

4. Run or deploy to cloud

• run locally with docker, or: pip install -r "requirements.txt" then python bot.py
• or deploy to cloud with https://fly.io: flyctl deploy --ha=false (atm the script only supports 1 machine, it's already configured like this)
• add bot in a group and use /add_group groupid to whitelist it and it's ready to use with /prompt whatever you want