mtravers/callcongress

Alexa skill for letting you know what your reps are doing and how to contact them

callcongress

Alexa skill to help people find out about current legislation and contact their congresspeople.

Use

Alexa, ask call congress

• what are some upcoming bills? (you can say “no” or “next” to cycle through the list of bills)
• set my zip to
• call my representative

Deployment

Build

lein uberjar

Upload to AWS Lambda

• https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home?region=us-east-1#/functions/CallCongress/$LATEST?tab=code
• ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:316385792873:function:CallCongress:$LATEST

Upload interaction model to AWS

Test out on Alexa

https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skill/amzn1.ask.skill.211aa2b8-b06f-4e2b-bdc1-8b0fa87673cd/en_US/testing

Database

An AWS DynamoDB table is used to store zip codes.

• https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/home?region=us-east-1#tables:selected=congress_user_prefs
• arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:316385792873:table/congress_user_prefs

License

Copyright © 2016 Michael Travers

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.