garimasingh128 / alexa-skills-starters

💻 A collection of super cool Amazon Alexa skills for complete newbies. 💻

👣 Awesome Alexa skills

🧐 A collection of super-cool Amazon Alexa skills for starters!! ✨

Join Gitter channel for discussion: https://gitter.im/SWOC2021/Alexa-skills-starters

💻 What are Amazon alexa skills? 👣

Alexa is Amazon’s Voice Service, accessed through Amazon Echo. After the set up process, you simply say the word ‘Alexa’ and Echo will light up and Alexa will respond. You can change this 'wake word' to either 'Amazon' or 'Echo'. Alexa can help you with music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, as well as providing weather, traffic and other real-time information.

💻 What’s a skill?

Alexa skills are like apps. You can enable and disable skills, using the Alexa app or a web browser, in the same way that you install and uninstall apps on your smart phone or tablet. Skills are voice-driven Alexa capabilities. You can add Alexa skills to your Echo to bring products and services to life. You can view available skills and enable or disable them using your Alexa app.

💻 Where do I find my skills?

You'll find all the skills on your Alexa app. If you're looking for the EDF Energy Alexa skill to complete the account linking process, type 'EDF Energy' in the search box. You can then follow the account linking process. Account has been linked, but can't find the EDF Energy Alexa skill? In your Alexa app visit 'My Skills' and search for 'EDF Energy' there.

✍  Skills developed

• Movie Time - gives you a good movie recommendation
• Quote - Speaks out a random inspirational quote from a list of quotes, each time user speaks/types "hello"
• Sheldon Game - The game is an expansion on the game Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Cakewalk - A starter template for beginners
• My inspirations - Suggests quotes and thoughts
• Touristy - Tells info about tourist places of Australia
• Hello world - my hosted skill

💻  GETTING STARTED

=> Fork this repository to start contributing.

=> Open your Git Bash command window and in the root directory type the following commands :

    1) git init -initializes the git repository from the GitHub. 
    2) git clone -Clone the repository to your local machine
      (git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/garimasingh128/Alexa-skills-starters)

Make all PRs to develop branch only!!! :)

💻  System Requirements

• Git
• Code Editor (Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text)
• Account on Amazon Developer console

🏆  Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to the project.

💼  Code of Conduct

We want to facilitate a healthy and constructive community behavior by adopting and enforcing our code of conduct.

Please adhere towards our code-of-conduct.md.

👬  Owner

_{Garima Singh}

❤️ Thanks to the awesome Amazon community!

Our Contributors ✨:

alexa-skills-starters's Issues

Alexa Skill - Nutritional Cuisines

What is the skill doing? 🤔
Alexa Skill that would present users with different cuisines based on the various nutritional values or quantities they prefer. For example, a user may ask - Alexa, give a meal that has at least 60 calories and 50 gram protein.

Where are we getting the data from? 📊
For the skill to gather all the meal names with the accurate nutritional values, we are using Spoonacular API. You need to sign an setup get the API KEY.

How can I use it?
In order to use the Skill on your Alexa Console, you need to import it.

Go to Alexa Console and click the New Skill button.
Select your model and hosting environment and click Create Skill.
Now, you will see the Import Skill button on the top right. Click on it and this repositores URL: https://github.com/alexa-dev-hub/alexa-skill-nutritional-cuisines.git
Once it finishes processing, you can test the skill.
Skill Details
The Skill can be used as template for API calling.
Currently the intents have 8 slots, having values of maxCarbs, minProtein etc.
You need your own API Key, and add it to the lambda code.
MORE SPECIFICS TO BE ADDED.

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

Alexa skill idea: Birthday countdown timer

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

README - Create a List of Skills Added

Requirement is to enlist all these Skills as a List in the README. 📜
The List should mention the Name of the Creator, the Skill name - clickable link.
The List should update each time, a new skill's PR is created.

Please let us know about your approach before asking to be assigned.

Share your Alexa Skills✌️✌️💫💫

Following are the steps to add your Alexa Skills to this Repository: ⬇️

• Go to your Alexa Developer Console.
• Select/Open your already created Skill from the list of skills.
• Now go to the Code tab.
• On the top-left corner, click Download Skill.
• Once Downloaded, Extract the contents.
• You will now have a folder within which following files/folders will be there:

1. interactionModels
2. lambda
3. skill.json

• We will come back to this folder in a while.
• Now FORK this Repository.
• Clone the forked repo at your local PC using git clone .
• Browse to the location where repository got cloned at your system.
• Create a New Folder at the root level with your alexa skill name in the format "ALEXA_SKILL_NAME"
• Now inside that folder Copy and Paste the two folder that we downloaded. (Namely interactionModels and lambda). skill.json is NOT to be copied.
• Create an additional file (.txt or .md) to briefly describe the functioning of your skill.
• Add, commit and Push the Changes using the usual Git commands (Not Sure? See Git/GitHub Basics on YouTube).
• Now open the forked repository on GitHub, where you will notice a Pull Request Button.
• Click on it and Make A Pull Request and you are DONE!.

Congratulations you added your Alexa Skill.✌️✌️🥳🥳💫💫
If you face any problem contact @garimasingh128

Blog writing

Create your own blogs on Amazon alexa and how to create alexa skills and put them in the Blogs folder.
They must be an MD file with your name and credentials at the bottom.

Get Quote alexa skill: speaks out a random quote on user voice

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

Modify existing skills

Currently, 2 of the existing skills are in zip. Extract them and push them into the repo in a proper format as in Issue #2

Add SWoC as open source Event

This project is part of SWoC open source event.It should be mention in README file.

Add readme's for newly added Skills

The newly added skills don't contain proper Readme files.

Add contributing guidelines

See #2 for reference
add points from https://github.com/garimasingh128/gitsetgo

Change Invocation Name in Skill 2 (amzn1.ask.skill.6c84c58d-e9c2-445f-bd82-671ee45401ca.zip)

Invocation name is still 'change me'. It must be changed to "Hello Garima"

Alexa Skill - Guess My Character

What is the skill doing?
Alexa Skill takes in a set of inputs from the user and returns a name of a celebrity which resembles the most with the given inputs.

Where are we getting the data from?
We have a JSON file conatining names of 100 celebrities.

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

[Docs]: Add Issue Template and Pull Request template

Can I add Issue Template and Pull Request template suitable for this project?

Alexa model not working in Skill 3: Touristy

Alexa says 'Ask me places to visit in Australia". On doing so, it throws Fallback Intent. It turns out the utterance has not been added in the intent.

Adding resources to readme for newbies

Add a list of resources and video links from which contributors can learn how to make alexa skills.
Resources for both Python and JS.

Dynamic contributor images at readme.md

Dynamic contributor images at readme.md

Tourist skill : tells the best places to visit of a particular city

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

Readme update

Update readme and make it more fun

Reference: https://github.com/garimasingh128/gitsetgo

Change Invocation Name in Skill 1 (amzn1.ask.skill.6167f912-5367-4fb8-8edc-4ae566e9fa04.zip)

The Current name for the abovementioned Alexa skill is "my hosted skill".
This is a Hello World Skill and hence the invocation name must be "Hello World".

get you started Cake Walk skill

Reference: https://github.com/alexa-dev-hub/how-to-create-alexa-skill

Read issue : #2 on how to add the skill

Alexa Skill - Sheldon game

Create an Alexa Skill for the famous "Rock, Paper, Scissor, Lizard and Spock" game.

Can I add Movie Time Skill

I would like to add Movie Time Skill, Can I proceed?