alexa-skill

Having issues making a REST call to an API between a node.js Lambda function and Alexa. I'm using the request library to make the calls with an account linked skill. I've only set one sample utterance for the intent, and the simulator see this fine. Also, the cloudwatch logs show a 200 response code from the api endpoint and any of the returned data from the API from console.logs to CW. 'use strict'; var http = require('http'); var request = require('request'); var Alexa = require('alexa-sdk'); var APP_ID = "amzn1.ask.skill.XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX"; exports.handler = function(event,

Amazon Alexa skill: We were unable to link xxxx at this time. And with 401 Unauthorized. =================================================================== Skill model: CUSTOM Skill STATUS: In Development Account Linking: Auth Code Grant Client Authentication Scheme: "HTTP Basic" (Credentials in request body is the same error) Default Access Token Expiration Time: 360 1，Use Browser on Microsoft Windows open https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html In "DEV SKILLS", Enable my CUSTOM skill, Amazon Alexa service accesses my "Authorization URI" and asks for the "code". I send the "code" to it's

I'm new to writing Alexa skills and want to write a skill to store the speaker's words. For example, if I say, 'Alexa, save {whatever i say}', it should save the words in some string. Now from what I understand, the intent schema something should be like { intents:[ "intent" : "SaveIntent" ] } and utterances like SaveIntent save SaveIntent store In this case, how do I store '{whatever I say}'? To capture free-form speech input (rather than a defined list of possible values), you'll need to use the AMAZON.LITERAL slot type. The Amazon documentation for the Literal slot type describes a use case