Busayo25/yabatech-chatbot-api

> 🤖 A multilingual (English & Yoruba) AI chatbot for YABATECH students with login, semantic search, and mobile app support. # 🎓 YabatechEduBot **YabatechEduBot** is a multilingual AI-powered chatbot built for students of **Yaba College of Technology**. It answers questions about school life, departments, course forms, directions, admission, and more — in **English and Yoruba**. It comes with: - 🔐 Secure login system - 🌐 Language selector (English/Yoruba) - 🧠 Semantic intent matching (understands new/unseen questions) - 💬 Chat history tracking - 📱 Mobile app support via REST API - ⚙️ Web frontend using Streamlit --- ## 🧠 How It Works - Uses SentenceTransformers for semantic matching - Automatically detects intents from questions using vector similarity - Falls back to predefined responses if no match is found - Stores chat history and users in a lightweight SQLite database --- ## 🗂️ Project Structure ├── app.py # Streamlit web app ├── chatbot.py # Chat logic with AI + DB ├── flask_api.py # API endpoint for mobile app ├── train.py # Builds embeddings from intents.json ├── intents.json # Multilingual intents and responses ├── chatbot.db # SQLite DB (users, FAQ, history) ├── requirements.txt # Required Python packages ├── .gitignore # Excludes /models/ from Git └── models/ # (Generated during deployment) yaml Copy code --- ## 🚀 Deployment (on Render) ### Prerequisites: - Python 3.9+ - `sentence-transformers` and `streamlit` ### Render Setup: 1. Push this repo to GitHub 2. Create a new Web Service at render.com 3. Use this Start Command: ```bash python train.py && python flask_api.py Done! Your API will be available at: arduino Copy code your-subdomain.onrender.com 🧪 Testing the API Send a POST request like: json Copy code POST /chat { "message": "Where is YABATECH?", "user": "student123", "language": "en" } Response: json Copy code { "response": "YABATECH is in Yaba, Lagos." } 📱 Mobile App (FlutterFlow) A FlutterFlow project file is available here to build a no-code mobile chatbot app that connects directly to this API. 👨‍💻 Admin Login Default test user for loca …