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Node.js Alexa Skills

Alexa Skills Documentation

This provides examples of Alexa skills as well as documentation for how to use each skill.

Contents

The included Projects are both Alexa skill kit projects and personal projects that have elaborated on alexa skills.

• TWSS : an advanced trivia skill
• HelloWorld : a simple skill that responds with "hello world!"
• SpaceGeek : a simple skill that responds to the user with a space fact.
• ReindeerGames: a simple skill that plays trivia quiz questions
• MinecraftHelper : a simple skill that responds to the user's recipe queries with formulas.
• WiseGuy : a skill that tells knock knock jokes.
• HistoryBuff : a skill that gives historical information that happened on a user provided day.
• Savvy Consumer : a skill that looks up a category on Amazon and returns the best selling products.
• TidePooler : a skill that looks up tide information for various cities.
• ScoreKeeper : a skill that can keep score of a game.
• ChemistryFlashCards : A skill that quizzes you on chemistry with flash cards.

Usage

Navigate to the README.md in each sub directory in the samples folder and follow the instructions for getting the sample up and running.

Resources

Here are a few direct links to our documentation:

• Using the Alexa Skills Kit Samples (Node.js)
• Getting Started
• Invocation Name Guidelines
• Developing an Alexa Skill as an AWS Lambda Function