An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by chishaku on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:41PM (#17427191)

Flask-ask makes it pretty easy.

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by bb88 on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:21PM (#17427542)

Also flask-assistant is the google assistant version which (IIRC) was inspired by flask-ask.

https://flask-assistant.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start...

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by fergyfresh on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:08PM (#17427453)

I recently contributed to Flask-Ask and have been developing apps for Alexa for a while now. The APIs/Boilerplate code for the `easier way` is definitely harder than Flask-Ask is right now.

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by saamm on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:44PM (#17427715)

Yes! I recently adapted a project of mine to be available as an Alexa skill, and it only took ~40 lines to get it working [0].

0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/compare/24188aceb3da...

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by charred_toast on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:36AM (#17429628)

I agree, I've used this package since the beginning. Python is my favorite computer language so far. I started with Flash, then HTML & CSS, then jQuery, PHP, MySQL, etc. Could not mention Python without Virtualenv, Django, and Flask. To me, these tools are like LEGO for programming. I like JS too, who wouldn't? People literally live on the internet.

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by mullen on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:07PM (#17427877)

Played with this. It is stupid easy to make apps for Alexa with Flask-Ask.

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Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python by johnwheeler on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:57PM (#17428157)

Thanks!

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