jphaus/endangered-species-facts

An Alexa skill that gives interesting facts about endangered species and attempts to bring more attention to them.

🐾 Endangered Species Facts

An Alexa skill that gives interesting facts about endangered species and attempts to bring more attention to them.

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Usage

"Alexa, ask endangered species facts to tell me a fact"

"Alexa, tell endangered species facts to tell me a fact"

"Alexa, open endangered species facts"

😺 Installation

You will need to complete the prerequisites below before creating the skill and deploying the fulfillment handler.

Pre-requisites

In order to get started you will need to create an alexa developer account and an aws account.

• Alexa Developer
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Setting up Alexa Skill

Simply copy the models under interaction_models into the JSON Editor underneath intents in your alexa developer account. Don't forget to click on save and build model!

For more information read here.

Setting up AWS

1. Install Serverless
2. Install serverless-python-requirements
3. pip install -r requirements.txt

Deploy fulfillment handler

You can deploy with your default aws profile

sls deploy

Or deploy with a different profile:

AWS_PROFILE=alexa-user sls deploy

Resources

• Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python