Cookiecutter template for an Alexa skill in Python.
- Cookiecutter :
pip install -U cookiecutter
- Create a repo on Github with a desired [REPOSITORY] name (for example : alexa-skill-my-new-skill)
- Fill the short description on Github and copy it for the following steps
- Execute in the terminal
git clone https://github.com/tducret/[REPOSITORY].git
- Execute the cookiecutter with
cookiecutter -f https://github.com/tducret/cookiecutter-alexa-skill-python.git
(-f
is to overwrite the contents of the output directory if it already exists) cd [REPOSITORY]
- Update README.md
- Create an icon for your skill and save it to
icons
folder - Create a virtual environment to get the needed packages :
virtualenv venv; source venv/bin/activate; pip install ask-sdk
- When everything is in place, add the files to git, commit it and push it :
git add .; git commit -am "First commit"; git push
- Add topics (keywords) related to the project on Github (finding your project will be easier)
- Go to Alexa development console to create the new skill
- You may extract the content of the interaction schema with the
JSON Editor
button, and save it tospeech_assets/interactionSchema.json
- Go to AWS Lambda console to create the new function, and upload the zip produced with
package.sh