diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+.idea/
+venv/
+token.txt
+data.json
+config.json
+__pycache__/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# bob v2
+bob is a chatbot designed for use in TFT
+
+## how to use
+1. install the requirements
+2. copy `config.example.json` to `config.json` and edit it
+2. run main.py
+
+is it hard/??????
+
+## config options
+### `scrape_channel`
+channel which bob will scrape for data
+
+### `target_channel`
+channel in which bob will be talking in
+
+### `debug_channel`
+channel in which bob will be talking in when in debug mode
+
+### `scrape_amount`
+amount of messages bob will go through for its dataset
diff --git a/config.example.json b/config.example.json
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+{
+  "scrape_channel": 0,
+  "target_channel": 1,
+  "debug_channel": 2,
+  "scrape_amount": 50000
+}
diff --git a/configreader.py b/configreader.py
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+++ b/configreader.py
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+import json
+import os.path
+
+default_config = {
+    "scrape_channel": 0,
+    "target_channel": 0,
+    "debug_channel": 0,
+    "scrape_amount": 50000
+}
+
+if not os.path.exists("config.json"):
+    print("WARNING: Config file not found! Using default config.")
+    config = default_config
+else:
+    with open("config.json") as file:
+        config = json.load(file)
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+++ b/main.py
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+from qna import helpers, json
+import argparse
+import discord
+from configreader import config
+
+version = 'v2.1.0 stable'
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=f'bob {version}')
+parser.add_argument('--debug', '-d', action='store_true', help='enable debug mode')
+parser.add_argument('--version', '-v', action='version', version=version)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+channel_id = config["debug_channel"] if args.debug else config["target_channel"]
+client = discord.Client()
+questions = []
+
+
+def debug(*arg, **kwargs):
+    if args.debug:
+        print(*arg, **kwargs)
+
+
+async def debug_send(message: discord.Message, *arg, **kwargs):
+    if args.debug:
+        await message.channel.send(*arg, **kwargs)
+
+
+@client.event
+async def on_ready():
+    print(f'bob {version} is ready!')
+    channel = client.get_channel(channel_id)
+    await channel.send(f'ℹ️ **bob {version} is ready** with {len(questions)} questions in the dataset')
+    await channel.edit(topic=f'**bob {version}** | trained on {len(questions)} questions')
+
+
+@client.event
+async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
+    if message.channel.id != channel_id:
+        return
+    if message.author.bot:
+        return
+    content = helpers.sanitize_question(message.clean_content)
+    if message.is_system():
+        content = helpers.sanitize_question(message.system_content)
+    question = helpers.get_closest_question(questions, content)
+    response = helpers.pick_response(question)
+    debug(question)
+    debug(content, '->', response.text)
+    embed = discord.Embed(title="Details", color=0x2273e6)
+    embed.add_field(name="Matched Question", value=question.text)
+    embed.add_field(name="# of Responses", value=len(question.responses))
+    try:
+        await message.reply(response.text, embed=embed)
+    except discord.errors.HTTPException:
+        await message.channel.send(response.text, embed=embed)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    debug('initializing...')
+    with open('data.json') as file:
+        questions = json.json_to_questions(file.read())
+    debug('loaded', len(questions), 'questions')
+
+    with open('token.txt') as file:
+        client.run(file.readline())
diff --git a/qna/__init__.py b/qna/__init__.py
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+++ b/qna/__init__.py
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+from . import classes, helpers, json
diff --git a/qna/classes.py b/qna/classes.py
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+++ b/qna/classes.py
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+class Response:
+    def __init__(self, response: str):
+        self.text = response
+        self.count = 1
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        attrs = [
+            ('text', self.text),
+            ('count', self.count)
+        ]
+        joined = ' '.join('%s=%r' % t for t in attrs)
+        return f'<{self.__class__.__name__} {joined}>'
+
+
+class Question:
+    def __init__(self, question: str):
+        self.text = question
+        self.responses = []
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        attrs = [
+            ('text', self.text),
+            ('responses', self.responses)
+        ]
+        joined = ' '.join('%s=%r' % t for t in attrs)
+        return f'<{self.__class__.__name__} {joined}>'
+
+    def add_response(self, resp: Response):
+        for response in self.responses:
+            if response.text == resp.text:
+                response.count += resp.count
+                return
+        self.responses.append(resp)
diff --git a/qna/helpers.py b/qna/helpers.py
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+++ b/qna/helpers.py
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+import string
+
+import Levenshtein
+
+from .classes import Question, Response
+import typing
+import random
+
+
+def calculate_popularity(question: Question) -> typing.Dict[Response, float]:
+    popularity = {}
+    total = 0
+    for response in question.responses:
+        total += response.count
+    for response in question.responses:
+        popularity.update({response: response.count / total})
+    return popularity
+
+
+def pick_response(question: Question) -> Response:
+    popularity = calculate_popularity(question)
+
+    keys = list(popularity.keys())
+    random_prob = random.random()
+    pop = 0
+    for response in keys:
+        pop = pop + popularity[response]
+        if pop > random_prob:
+            return response
+
+
+def get_closest_question(questions: typing.List[Question], message: str) -> Question:
+    lowest = None
+    target = None
+    for question in questions:
+        dist = Levenshtein.distance(question.text, message)
+        if lowest is None or lowest > dist:
+            lowest = dist
+            target = question
+
+    return target
+
+
+def sanitize_question(content: str) -> str:
+    return content.lower().translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
diff --git a/qna/json.py b/qna/json.py
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+++ b/qna/json.py
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+import json
+import typing
+from qna.classes import Question, Response
+
+
+def response_to_dict(response: Response) -> dict:
+    data = {
+        'text': response.text,
+        'count': response.count
+    }
+    return data
+
+
+def dict_to_response(response_dict: dict) -> Response:
+    out = Response(response_dict['text'])
+    out.count = response_dict['count']
+    return out
+
+
+def question_to_dict(question: Question) -> dict:
+    data = {
+        'text': question.text,
+        'responses': []
+    }
+    for response in question.responses:
+        data['responses'].append(response_to_dict(response))
+
+    return data
+
+
+def dict_to_question(question_dict: dict) -> Question:
+    out = Question(question_dict['text'])
+    for response in question_dict['responses']:
+        out.add_response(dict_to_response(response))
+    return out
+
+
+def questions_to_json(questions: typing.List[Question]) -> str:
+    out = []
+    for question in questions:
+        out.append(question_to_dict(question))
+
+    return json.dumps(out, indent='\t')
+
+
+def json_to_questions(questions_json: str) -> typing.List[Question]:
+    questions_list = json.loads(questions_json)
+    out = []
+    for question in questions_list:
+        out.append(dict_to_question(question))
+    return out
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+discord.py
+python-Levenshtein
diff --git a/scrape.py b/scrape.py
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+++ b/scrape.py
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+import discord
+from qna.classes import Question, Response
+from qna import json
+from qna.helpers import sanitize_question
+from configreader import config
+
+client = discord.Client()
+limit = config["scrape_amount"]
+
+
+@client.event
+async def on_ready():
+    questions = {}
+    chat = client.get_channel(config["scrape_channel"])
+    print('> Scraping...')
+    count = 0  # this is lowkey better ngl
+    async for message in chat.history(limit=None):
+        if message.is_system():
+            continue  # we don't want to deal with these
+        if count >= limit:
+            with open('scraped-data.json', 'w+') as file:
+                file.write(json.questions_to_json(list(questions.values())))
+            await client.close()
+            print('\n> Done.')
+            return
+        if message.reference:
+            try:
+                reply: discord.Message = await chat.fetch_message(message.reference.message_id)
+            except discord.errors.NotFound:
+                continue  # too bad!!!
+            content = sanitize_question(reply.clean_content)
+            if content not in questions.keys():
+                questions.update({content: Question(content)})
+            questions[content].add_response(Response(message.clean_content))
+            print(content, '->', message.clean_content)
+        else:
+            continue  # worthless junk
+        count += 1
+        print(count, '/', limit)
+        # print(questions)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    with open('token.txt') as token:
+        client.run(token.readline())