Building a chatbot with Julia, recommend starting points

@jling I’m not sure what you meant but this doesn’t seem very welcoming.

@tatsumaru welcome! It’s a holiday weekend in the USA so people aren’t around. There are more people on The Julia Language Slack than on Discourse so you might try there if you aren’t getting much traction here.

However, I do think @jling has a point – for this project Python will provide a better experience with many more relevant resources. It has a much larger community for machine learning and especially web tech. The documentation for Julia’s web tools is very bare-bones, compared to very large documentation websites in Python.

In case you do want to use julia, there are two ways to interact with a website that doesn’t have an API: Use HTTP.jl to send requests to the website and read the responses or use Webdriver.jl to drive a browser. https://jonathandinu.com/blog/julia-web-scraping/ is a good web-scraping tutorial using HTTP.jl.

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