Kathryn - your tutorials are some of the most comprehensive out there and I applaud your smooth delivery of useful information. I'm impressed. I can't type as fast as you so I need to review it and digest it slowly. I came across this tutorial (and your others 1 and 2) because I'm trying to access an https server on my internal LAN using Alexa and there is simply not enough coherent content out there to understand all the pieces. Your tutorial put it all together except getting it from my server behind my firewall. The masses of Alexa skills tutorials out there essentially turn something on or off on the local network, but to get a LAMBDA function to do it... well, the tutorials just aren't out there. If you can shed light on that, it would be great! Thanks so much for your good work.
Not usually one for commenting on videos, but this one deserves it! I've been trying to figure this out for days. Was beginning to wondering if it was even possible. Thanks for the help!
Thank you for the tutorial! Following your tutorial I was able to publish an Alexa Skill. The skill I made is AMBER Alert, which uses a GET api request to get the latest AMBER Alert issued in the US.
Thanks for the great video Kathryn! Question have u also used request-promise library to retrieve data? I have been running into issues with 3 second timeout when using promises
Hi BB - thanks so much for these clear demos! I finally understand the process! Do you know if there is a way to tell Alexa within my custom skill to play an album (that Alexa already knows how to do)? I have an album of the day and the goal is to find out what that album is (done), have Alexa read the blurb about it (done), and then play it (if the user chooses). So far I've only seen how to play audio mp3 streams. Thanks so much again!
Hi, is there any chance to start skill without talk to alexa? I have got a Domoticz server, I can send requests (http json) to my devices whenever I want. Can alexa somehow recive and say it? You did all of I am asking in this video, except one thing - trigger, Your intent is to say word phrases, I would like to start it by http request. Is there any way to do it?
Awesome tutorial. I learned a lot from from all of them. Could you be bribed into doing an updated version using the Alexa-SDK and soap-as-promised? I am working on one and having task timeout issues with a soap wsdl call. JK Please keep publishing more tutorials.
Amazing tutorial Kathryn. I've one question. When I tried accessing the Title from the Wiki API using d.query.search[0].title It gives a blank output. Am I missing something?
Hey Kathryn, I just wanted thank you for creating an amazing tutorial on https for Alexa as there isn't much content out there, I just have one question: How do you get the API for sites like wikipedia or any other website of your choice? Lets say I want to grab data from a world clock time website, how would I get the API from the counter? I tried things speak but it didn't work on the Alexa skills, I would appreciate it so much if you could let me know how you do it. Thanks anyways, Keep creating awesome content
Hi Atharva! It really depends. It sounds like you want to scrape content of a website and you'll need to use a parser for that (which is different from an API). Many websites and companies have their own publically available API's which sometimes (but not always) have documentation. Some examples are Twilio (www.twilio.com/docs/), Wikipedia (www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page), and the New York Times (developer.nytimes.com/). The best way to find them is to just google the company name and then developer or API after it. Good luck!
@@blondiebytes Thank you for your quick reply. Do i follow the same video for doing that or is there another tutorial? Actually my final year project is based on alexa skill so i'm a bit worried.!
I’m trying to develop a skill that takes a city name which gets past into a call to the google map api to return the longitude and latitude. Then I want to pass that into another api call. I’ve made my var’s global but I’m struggling to pass the returned longitude and latitude into the second api call, any advice?
Hi, I'm a young entrepreneur working on a new patented project, and I'd like to run a potential opportunity pass you, is there a alternative way I could communicate with you?
can you pls help provide a lamda script to simply access a URL address (www.address.com:8888/s/u) to trigger a smart home device- its actually a shutter that i wanted it to go up with /s/u or down with /s/d for the same URL address?
Kathryn - your tutorials are some of the most comprehensive out there and I applaud your smooth delivery of useful information. I'm impressed. I can't type as fast as you so I need to review it and digest it slowly.
I came across this tutorial (and your others 1 and 2) because I'm trying to access an https server on my internal LAN using Alexa and there is simply not enough coherent content out there to understand all the pieces. Your tutorial put it all together except getting it from my server behind my firewall. The masses of Alexa skills tutorials out there essentially turn something on or off on the local network, but to get a LAMBDA function to do it... well, the tutorials just aren't out there.
If you can shed light on that, it would be great!
Thanks so much for your good work.
Not usually one for commenting on videos, but this one deserves it! I've been trying to figure this out for days. Was beginning to wondering if it was even possible. Thanks for the help!
Thank you for the tutorial! Following your tutorial I was able to publish an Alexa Skill. The skill I made is AMBER Alert, which uses a GET api request to get the latest AMBER Alert issued in the US.
Certainly did learn something, just need to put it into practice now. Thanks for sharing.
These videos are so helpful! Thank you Kathryn!
Thanks for the great video Kathryn! Question have u also used request-promise library to retrieve data? I have been running into issues with 3 second timeout when using promises
Hi BB - thanks so much for these clear demos! I finally understand the process! Do you know if there is a way to tell Alexa within my custom skill to play an album (that Alexa already knows how to do)? I have an album of the day and the goal is to find out what that album is (done), have Alexa read the blurb about it (done), and then play it (if the user chooses). So far I've only seen how to play audio mp3 streams. Thanks so much again!
very useful! That''s what I'm trying to do. Thank you very much!
Thanks for sharing, excellent tutorial !
Hi, is there any chance to start skill without talk to alexa? I have got a Domoticz server, I can send requests (http json) to my devices whenever I want. Can alexa somehow recive and say it? You did all of I am asking in this video, except one thing - trigger, Your intent is to say word phrases, I would like to start it by http request. Is there any way to do it?
amazing! You saved me a huge amount of time. thank you!
Awesome tutorial. I learned a lot from from all of them. Could you be bribed into doing an updated version using the Alexa-SDK and soap-as-promised? I am working on one and having task timeout issues with a soap wsdl call. JK Please keep publishing more tutorials.
Amazing tutorial Kathryn.
I've one question. When I tried accessing the Title from the Wiki API using d.query.search[0].title
It gives a blank output. Am I missing something?
How would you modify this if the site that you are getting requires a handler token?
Hey Kathryn, I just wanted thank you for creating an amazing tutorial on https for Alexa as there isn't much content out there, I just have one question:
How do you get the API for sites like wikipedia or any other website of your choice? Lets say I want to grab data from a world clock time website, how would I get the API from the counter?
I tried things speak but it didn't work on the Alexa skills, I would appreciate it so much if you could let me know how you do it.
Thanks anyways, Keep creating awesome content
Hi Atharva! It really depends. It sounds like you want to scrape content of a website and you'll need to use a parser for that (which is different from an API). Many websites and companies have their own publically available API's which sometimes (but not always) have documentation. Some examples are Twilio (www.twilio.com/docs/), Wikipedia (www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page), and the New York Times (developer.nytimes.com/). The best way to find them is to just google the company name and then developer or API after it. Good luck!
Thank You so much! I was looking for a direction to go in, now I got it :) Appreciate it.
is it possible to request echo dot to post http request to control a nodemcu server on my local wifi?
how would I call the function handleGetInfoIntent from the amazon console with those parameters
can you make a video to guide how to make a phone call skill for Alexa ?
Hi, Can you upload a code with third party api with post method?
Great video, Can i get the text from my own website and make alexa read that text to the user?
Yup you could definitely do that!
@@blondiebytes Thank you for your quick reply. Do i follow the same video for doing that or is there another tutorial? Actually my final year project is based on alexa skill so i'm a bit worried.!
Great video 👍
I’m trying to develop a skill that takes a city name which gets past into a call to the google map api to return the longitude and latitude. Then I want to pass that into another api call. I’ve made my var’s global but I’m struggling to pass the returned longitude and latitude into the second api call, any advice?
Thanks a lot! :)
Hi, I'm a young entrepreneur working on a new patented project, and I'd like to run a potential opportunity pass you, is there a alternative way I could communicate with you?
Great Demo! Thanks! I just feel pity for you keyboard. Those keystrokes! dang it!
I am a harsh typer...
Thank you
can you pls help provide a lamda script to simply access a URL address (www.address.com:8888/s/u) to trigger a smart home device- its actually a shutter that i wanted it to go up with /s/u or down with /s/d for the same URL address?
How to call post api with header and body ?