Cookiecutter Alexa-skill Python

Cookiecutter template for an Alexa skill in Python.

Requirements

• Cookiecutter : pip install -U cookiecutter

Steps

• 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 to speech_assets/interactionSchema.json
• Go to AWS Lambda console to create the new function, and upload the zip produced with package.sh