This is an Alexa skill template that provides a simple example of a skill that calls an external API. The API used is the api.open-notify.org API which returns a list of the astronauts currently in space.
To try a live example of this skill template, you can enable the Ground Control Alexa skill. Just say: Alexa, enable Ground Control
and then Alexa, open Ground Control
.
This template uses the Alexa Skills Kit SDK 2.0 for Node.js and was designed to be used with the Alexa Skills Kit Command-Line Interface (aka: ASK-CLI). After installing the ASK-CLI you can run the following command to setup a new skill project based on this template.
$ ask new --template --url http://skilltemplates.com/templates.json
After running the previous command you'll see of list of templates to choose from. Pick the template named API Starter
. This will create a new folder named ./api-starter/
all of the code for the template will be located in that folder.
[coming soon]