The biggest problem that any chat application has is dealing with spam bots. This is an attempt to build a chat application that has an inherent way of detecting and blocking spam
To run, clone the project (Including the dataset, around 4 MB) and run the following commands before trying to run it
#apt-get install python-pip
#apt-get install python-dev
#apt-get install libevent-dev
#pip install gevent-socketio==0.3.5-rc2
Then run
$python server.py
and go to http://localhost:8080