# ading2210/poe-api

[UNMAINTAINED] A reverse engineered Python API wrapper for Quora's Poe, which provides free access to ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Claude.

Repository: https://github.com/ading2210/poe-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/poe-api
Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/poe-api
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: python, library, graphql, quora, poe, chatgpt
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-09-18T04:56:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 90
- inputs: {"age_days": 1272, "days_push": 1080, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2467, forks 304 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:53.729947+00:00)

## What it is
A reverse-engineered Python API wrapper for Quora's Poe, providing programmatic access to ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Claude via Poe's web interface. It supports sending messages, streaming responses, bot management, and conversation history, but is now unmaintained and non-functional.

## Use cases
- access chatgpt and gpt-4 for free through poe
- send messages to claude via python script
- stream bot responses in a python app
- create and manage custom poe bots programmatically
- download conversation history from poe
- build a chatbot on top of poe's models

## When to choose
- you need a historical reference for how Poe's unofficial API worked
- you're studying reverse-engineered API wrappers in Python

## When to avoid
- you need a working integration today - the project is broken and unmaintained
- you need official, reliable API access to GPT-4 or Claude
- you need production stability or support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, websocket, chatbot, reverse-engineering
- domain: large-language-models, chatbots, apis, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: poe, quora, chatgpt, gpt-4, claude, unofficial-api, unmaintained

## Member repositories
- ading2210/poe-api (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.729947+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:29:12.454024+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ading2210/poe-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.729947+00:00, sha b2bb29e392f1)
  - homepage: https://pypi.org/project/poe-api (fetched 2026-08-29T10:11:22.052170+00:00, sha 4b4e8fead74a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/poe-api/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:11:22.060965+00:00, sha 24a1867c7b5b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.