--- title: "Chatbot Minimal" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/9c5f7be6-2e2d-4eac-aea0-442f6c09a286" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Chatbot Minimal > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. 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. Chatbot Minimal is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by abidlabs ## 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. ```sh 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 ## README ````markdown # 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. ```table 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 ```table 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. ```sh 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. ```flow 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. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [abidlabs/chatbot-minimal on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/chatbot-minimal) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Chatbot Minimal (this page) | 8 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2022-02-18 | | [FLUX.1 dev](https://mindket.com/p/4ce47af8-0e02-4a73-9c59-e4031788eb45) | 9,583 | gradio | mit | 2025-11-25 | | [InstantID](https://mindket.com/p/54fcb36c-756a-4797-80c1-05779f87ebbd) | 3,659 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2025-08-26 | | [Chat With Janus-Pro-7B](https://mindket.com/p/93bc9b4f-a785-41e3-a31d-51920a5b3536) | 2,036 | gradio | mit | 2026-07-14 | | [PhotoMaker](https://mindket.com/p/b3e336b4-4a67-4e52-8c2e-1e94d392ac71) | 1,960 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2025-08-28 | | [Z Image Turbo](https://mindket.com/p/adfd87b7-3f3e-405e-95c8-1957bc0da52a) | 1,940 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2026-05-22 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, on 2026-11-12. ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. 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