alexa-help

Requirements

• An Amazon Developer account. This is required to create and configure Alexa skills.
• An Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. This is required for hosting a skill on AWS Lambda.
• pip
• python 2.7
• virtual enviroment

SDK setup in virtual enviroment

Prerequisites

The ASK SDK for Python requires Python 2 (>= 2.7) or Python 3 (>= 3.6). Before continuing, make sure you have a supported version of Python installed. To show the version, from a command prompt run the following command:

• python --version

Set up the SDK in a virtual environment

• pip install virtualenv (if not installed)

create a create a new folder for your Alexa skill and navigate to the folder:

• mkdir skill

• cd skill

create a virtual environment called skill_env by issuing the following command:

• virtualenv skill_env

Run the following command to activate your virtual environment:

• source skill_env/bin/activate

The command prompt should now be prefixed with (skill_env), indicating that you are working inside the virtual environment. Use the following command to install the ASK Python SDK:

• pip install ask-sdk

copying the python code in the respective folder

• Depending on the version of Python you are using, the SDK will be installed into the skill_env/lib/Python3.6/site-packages folder.

• copy the hello_world.py file into the site-packages folder and create a .zip file of the contents of the folder (not the folder itself). Name the file skill.zip.

• Now upload the skill.zip in the lambda function.