ShinyChatGPT - OpenAI ChatGPT Clone with Shiny

A beautiful, themeable, and user-friendly R Shiny interface for interacting with OpenAI's Chat Completions API.
Inspired by the official OpenAI Playground, this app supports:

• ✅ Chat with GPT models (gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4o, etc.)
• 🎨 Light/Dark theme toggle (with local storage memory)
• 🔄 Loading spinner while waiting for API
• 💬 Chat history with styled bubbles
• ⚙️ Adjustable temperature, max tokens, and system prompt
• 📤 Download chat history
• 🧼 Clear chat button
• 🧩 Responsive layout with custom styling

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🌐 App Interface

The clean and intuitive UI is designed to make interactions seamless and visually appealing.

Dark Mode Example

White Mode Example

Chat Interface Example

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📦 Requirements

• R ≥ 4.0
• Shiny
• shinyjs
• httr
• jsonlite

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🚀 Try It Out on shinyapps.io

Experience ShinyChatGPT live on Shinyapps.io!

👉 Launch the App on shinyapps.io

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🚀 Running Locally

Follow these steps to run ShinyChatGPT on your local machine:

1. Prerequisites

• R: Ensure you have R installed. You can download it from the R project website.
• RStudio IDE (Recommended): While not strictly necessary, RStudio provides a user-friendly environment for R development. Download it from the RStudio website.

2. Clone the Repository

Open your terminal or command prompt and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/tolgakurtuluss/shinychatgpt.git
cd shinychatgpt

3. Install Dependencies

You need to install the R packages listed in the "Dependencies" section. Open R or RStudio and run the following command in the R console:

install.packages(c("shiny", "shinyjs", "httr", "jsonlite"))

4. Run the App

There are a couple of ways to run the app:

• Using RStudio:
  1. Open the shinychatgpt.R file in RStudio.
  2. Click the "Run App" button that appears at the top of the script editor.
• Using the R Console:
  1. Navigate to the project directory (shinychatgpt) in your R console.
  2. Run the command: shiny::runApp()

Once the app is running, it should open in your default web browser.