Connecting Amazon Echo to Conducttr

Here’s how to give Conducttr some Alexa Skills 🙂

Here’s the code used in the video example

INTENT JSON

{

  “intents”: [

    {

      “intent”: “GetFacebookMsg”

    }

  ]

}

LAMBDA CODE

//

// Credit to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt9WdE5kR6g for the code base!

//

var https = require(‘https’)

exports.handler = (event, context) => {

  try {

    if (event.session.new) {

      // New Session

      console.log(“NEW SESSION”)

    }

    switch (event.request.type) {

      case “LaunchRequest”:

        // Launch Request

        console.log(`LAUNCH REQUEST`)

        context.succeed(

          generateResponse(

            buildSpeechletResponse(“Welcome to Conducttr”, true),

            {}

          )

        )

        break;

      case “IntentRequest”:

        // Intent Request

        console.log(`INTENT REQUEST`)

        switch(event.request.intent.name) {

          case “”: // INTENT GOES HERE

            var endpoint = “” // ENDPOINT GOES HERE

            var body = “”

            https.get(endpoint, (response) => {

              response.on(‘data’, (chunk) => { body += chunk })

              response.on(‘end’, () => {

                var data = JSON.parse(body)

                var last_comment = data.results[0].this_tweet  // MODIFY THIS TO SUIT YOUR DATA

                context.succeed(

                  generateResponse(

                    buildSpeechletResponse(`hmmm… ${last_comment}`, true),

                    {}

                  )

                )

              })

            })

            break;

          default:

            throw “Invalid intent”

        }

        break;

      case “SessionEndedRequest”:

        // Session Ended Request

        console.log(`SESSION ENDED REQUEST`)

        break;

      default:

        context.fail(`INVALID REQUEST TYPE: ${event.request.type}`)

    }

  } catch(error) { context.fail(`Exception: ${error}`) }

}

// Helpers

buildSpeechletResponse = (outputText, shouldEndSession) => {

  return {

    outputSpeech: {

      type: “PlainText”,

      text: outputText

    },

    shouldEndSession: shouldEndSession

  }

}

generateResponse = (speechletResponse, sessionAttributes) => {

  return {

    version: “1.0”,

    sessionAttributes: sessionAttributes,

    response: speechletResponse

  }

}