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Alexa is a voice service developed by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126.

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Alexa is a voice service developed by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126. Out of the box, it is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real time information, such as news. Developers can expand on the experiences supported by Alexa powered devices by developing "skills". Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system.

Interaction and communication with Alexa is available in English (US), English (CA), English (UK), English (AU), English (IN), French (CA), French (FR), Spanish (ES), Spanish (MX), Spanish (US), Portuguese (BR), German (DE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JP), and Hindi (IN)

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How can I use axios in lambda?

Do I have to install the axios module locally and then deploy it to lambda or is there a way to do it through the inline code editor as well in the browser?
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Fetching Alexa data

How is it possible to get traffic data, sub domains data, country rank in percentage like in http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.google.com?
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Alexa request validation in python

I work on a service that will handle Alexa voice intents. I need to verify the signature of each request and I almost succeed. The only part that is not working is the validation of certificates chain. From the documentation I know that: This…
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Amazon Alexa, alexa-app and middleware

have been going different routes for 2 days now and can't figure it out. Perhaps someone can shed some light on my problems. I am trying to run a botserver that connects to multiple plaforms and already have around 5 working. I am now also trying…
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How to get an Alexa userId?

I'm building an Alexa Skill, and it requires that I store the userId of a user. I've tried to retrieve it with event.session.user.userId. However, when I call console.log(event.session.user.userId) the output is literally…
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How to oAuth Google API from Lambda AWS?

I am building Alexa Skill for Google calendar. The client side code works as expected on local machine because I can authenticate the local machine using the link. But, when I deploy the code on AWS Lambda there is no way that I can authenticate as…
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How to end session for custom Alexa skill?

I am creating a custom skill for Alexa. I want to close the session on AMAZON.StopIntent. How can I achieve this with below code? const ExitHandler = { canHandle(handlerInput) { const request = handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request; return…
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How to fetch competitors record from alexa API to array

I call http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=snbamz&url=www.flipkart.com to get website data and when I run on browser it's display this XML.
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How to test the amazon alexa custom skill through your computer while in development phase?

I am trying to use the sample code provided for Amazon Alexa API, and trying to run hello world / history buff examples through the computer. How do I test from my local machine, about the request and response formats. In the README file it is given…
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Differences between using Lex and Alexa

I'm building an Alexa skill that will allow Alexa users to interact with a consumer facing e-commerce site. There is functionality to call a representative that already exists on the site. Now, I want to build out a voice app as a side project…
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Alexa Rank to Traffic Estimation Formula

Anybody have some idea how we can convert alexa Rank to estimate the daily visitors of a website. previous we can easily do this by Alexa Site Reach percentage but alexa reach is no more available. previous i am using this forumula $visitors =…
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Alexa Skill Development using flask-ask and ngrok

I'm trying to begin developing a skill for alexa using flask-ask and ngrok in python. Following is my code: from flask import Flask from flask_ask import Ask, statement, question, session import json import requests import time import unidecode app…
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Can I determine which AWS service triggered my Lambda function?

I have a Python Lambda function that can respond to both an IoT Button and Alexa skill. Is there a way to read the event or context handed to the handler function to identify which service triggered the function (Alexa or IoT)?
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Alexa, Unable to link your skill

I am creating custom skill in Alexa which uses account linking. I have created my own authentication server using OAuth2 php library and I have configured the authorization url and token urls in skill configuration. When I try account linking from…
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How to check and get Alexa slot value with Python ask sdk

In my interaction model I defined a slot named city that is optional, not required, to fulfill an intent. I'm using the python ask sdk, so my handler is this: class IntentHandler(RequestHandler): """ Intent handler """ def…
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