🎓 Smart Course Advisor Bot

A personalized web app that recommends real, high-quality online courses tailored to your interests and academic year powered by advanced AI and live course search.

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🚀 Features

• 🤖 Get 2-3 real up-to-date course recommendations from Coursera, Udemy, edX, NPTEL and LinkedIn Learning
• 🧑‍🎓 Ask for suggestions specific to your year (first, second, third, final) or area of interest
• 📝 Each course includes a title, platform, direct link and a concise description
• 💬 Chat interface with conversation history and easy clearing
• 🌐 Minimalistic responsive UI for a seamless experience

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🧠 Powered By

• Mistral Mixtral 8x7B for smart context-aware recommendations
• Flask for backend and session management
• Jinja2 for dynamic HTML rendering

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💻 Setup

git clone https://github.com/BharatwaleJain/CourseAdvisorBot.git
cd CourseAdvisorBot
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate         # for Windows
source venv/bin/activate      # for Linux/macOS
pip install -r requirements.txt
python api/app.py

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🔐 Configuration

Before running the app, add your Hugging Face token and Flask secret key to a .env file in the project root

HF_TOKEN = "your_huggingface_token"
SECRET_KEY = "your_flask_secret_key"

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👨‍💻 Contributors

• Naincy Jain
• Aarjav Jain