The quickest way to build an Alexa skill. The goal of this repo is to allow building Alexa skill from the CLI and without reaching out to the web interface.
- create account on aws.amazon.com
- create account on developer.amazon.com
- Create IAM user on aws.amazon.com and put the credentials in ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Install 'ask' the executable for managing skills:
npm install -g ask-cli
git clone git@github.com:oren/hello-world-skill.git
cd hello-world-skill
ask deploy
In the web interface, under the 'test' tab, enable the skill for testing. It's a red toggle button. Maybe there is a way to do that from the CLI, I am not sure yet.
Say: "Alexa, open oren states quiz"
ask deploy didn't work since .ask/config is being populated with a skill_id. What I currently do is delete the skill from the web interface and start all over. I am sure there is a better way. I just don't know how.
ask deploy -t lambda works when the skill id present and I only need to update the lambda.
(This is probably not be working. This document is a work in progress. If you know how to make it work, send a PR please)
alexa ask new --skill-name states-quiz --lambda-name states-quiz
cd states-quiz
ask deploy