Chatbot Minimal

Chatbot Minimal

A short Gradio chatbot that answers with the microsoft/DialoGPT-medium model. It suits people who want to try a basic chat page or read a small example of one.

Made by abidlabs on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Chatbot Minimal is a short Gradio chatbot published as a Hugging Face Space. It names the microsoft/DialoGPT-medium model, so the replies come from that conversational model. The code is app.py, and requirements.txt lists the Python packages.

Who it suits: It suits people who want a bare-bones chatbot to try, and learners who want a short example of putting a chat model behind a Gradio page.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Software | Python developers | Read app.py to see how a chat model is wired into Gradio | Download the Space and open app.py
Education | Instructors | Use it as a small chatbot lesson | Run it in class and read the code together
Machine learning | Hobbyists | Chat with DialoGPT-medium through a simple page | Open the Space and type a message

Anyone who needs a chatbot with memory features, tools or settings can skip it, since the source describes none.

Where to use it:

• A web browser, straight from the Space page on Hugging Face
• Windows, macOS or Linux with Python, as a local copy

Use case | Who | What they get back
Chat with the model online | Anyone curious | Replies from DialoGPT-medium in a browser page
Study a minimal chatbot | Learners | A short repository with one app file and one requirements file

How to set it up: Using it online needs nothing. A local copy needs these first.

• Python and pip
• The huggingface_hub package, to fetch the files
• The packages in requirements.txt, plus Gradio

1. Install the Hugging Face Hub package.
2. Download the Space into a folder called chatbot-minimal.
3. Move into that folder.
4. Install Gradio, then the packages from requirements.txt.
5. Start the app.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download abidlabs/chatbot-minimal --repo-type space --local-dir chatbot-minimal
cd chatbot-minimal
pip install gradio
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

How to use it: Open the Space page on Hugging Face, type a message and read the reply. For a local copy, run python app.py in the folder and open the page it starts.

Example: You type "Hello, how are you today?" into the chat box. The app sends it to the DialoGPT-medium model and shows the reply the model generates.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new, open the Space page and say hello. That one message shows how the bot answers.

If you know the field, this is a thin Gradio wrapper around one pretrained dialogue model. The source names microsoft/DialoGPT-medium and nothing else, so there are no tools, memory features or settings beyond what app.py defines.

You type a message in the browser
app.py passes it to DialoGPT-medium
The model reply shows in the chat

Good to know:

• It relies on one named model and offers no other chat features
• It needs Gradio and the packages in requirements.txt
• License: apache-2
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: the microsoft/DialoGPT-medium model it names

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 8
• Built with: gradio
• License: apache-2.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/chatbot-minimal
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/chatbot-minimal/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.