Alexa

The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code.

Resources for Alexa Smart Home developers.

The Alexa APIs for Python consists of python classes that represent the request and response JSON of Alexa services. These models act as core dependency for the Alexa Skills Kit Python SDK (https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-python).

Color Changer buttons skill opens with buttons roll call and asks the user to push buttons to change their colors with various animations. It covers roll call, starting and stopping the Input Handler, and defining animations for different button events. It also demonstrates how Echo Buttons can interrupt text-to-speech (TTS).

This is a sample skill used to show 3P developers how to develop for Echo Buttons. It is the exact same functionality as the existing alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-hellobuttons except this one is written using the Python ASK SDK.

Pet Match matches the user with a pet. When launched, this Alexa Skill will prompt the user for the information it needs to determine a match. Once all of the required information is collected, it will send the data to an external web service which processes the data and returns the match. Through this workshop, you will learn how to use advance…

This Alexa sample skill is a template for a basic city-guide skill. Provided some data about a city's restaurants, attractions, Alexa will recommend a restaurant based on the meal type or recommend an attraction. It can also suggest the current temperature and weather conditions of the city.

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a fact skill in Python.

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a quiz game skill in Python.

Demonstrates how to use the new in-skill purchasing (ISP) features of Alexa skills by offering different packs of facts behind a purchase, and a subscription to unlock all of the packs at once.

The high low game is a game where the player tries to guess the target number between 1 to 100. After each incorrect guess, the player is informed if the target number is higher or lower than their current guess. This continues until the target number is guessed or the player gives up. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Python and demonstrate…

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through allthe required steps involved in creating a parameter-based skill using atemplate called ‘Minecraft Helper’. Ask how to craft an item in thegame Minecraft, and this skill will give you instructions.

The color picker skill is a simple skill where alexa asks you to pick a color and responds back with the color you chose, when you ask it what is your favorite color. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Python and demonstrates the use of session attributes.

This is Alexa skill sample code for showing how several areas of a Smart Home model come together to define and provide endpoint devices using Lambda, IoT Core, DynamoDB, and API Gateway services.

This is a basic Alexa Smart Home skill sample that implements a virtual switch. It shows the discovery and directive handling process for a virtual device implementing Alexa Smart Home switch capabilities.

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a trivia skill in Python. (This sample does not use the beta version of the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python.)

This project demonstrates the use of Alexa Audio Player for skills, using the ASK Python SDK