Alexa Skills Experiments

Installation

git clone [email protected]:stephengeller/alexa-skills-experiments.git
cd alexa-skills-experiments

Current Skills

- yearbook-game: Skill using a lambda that queries DynamoDB for yearbook quotes, and asks the player who the quote was written by or for.

How To Use

yearbook-game

• Update the FUNCTION_NAME variable in deploy.sh to point to a lambda on your AWS account. You may need to create a lambda for it first, in order for the code within it to be updated.
• Create a quotes.json file in the yearbook-game directory, using the following data structure:

{
	"data": [
		{
			"to": "FirstName LastName",
			"quotes": [
				{
					"from": "FirstName LastName",
					"text":
						"Some quote."
				}
			]
		}
	]
}

• Run $ node quoteUploader.js to upload the quotes to AWS DynamoDB.
• Run $ ./deploy.sh to deploy the code to your AWS Lambda.
• Implement the Alexa skill to point to the handlers laid out in index.js (you will need to investigate how Alexa works with lambdas in order to set this up correctly)
• Point the Alexa skill to use the ARN of the Lambda containing the deployed lambda code.