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{
    "type": "APL",
    "version": "1.1",
    "import": [
        {
            "name": "alexa-layouts",
            "version": "1.1.0"
        }
    ],
    "mainTemplate": {

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{
    "document": {
        "type": "APL",
        "version": "1.0",
        "theme": "dark",
        "import": [],
        "resources": [],
        "styles": {},
        "layouts": {
            "ResponsiveSplashLayout": {

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Sample question component for quiz skill using APL

This is a sample APL for a quiz result and question.

It includes both the APL document and sample data sources.

Tweak it

• Save the JSON file
• Go to https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask/displays and import the JSON file

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### Variables ###

# Variables can be set by exporting environment variable TF_VAR_varname

variable keypair {
  description = "SSH keypair to be used for VM authentication. The keypair should already be registered in FIWARE Lab Cloud."
}

variable image_id {
  default = "7f2b4b3e-1cda-4e16-a09a-a97c600f78c0" 

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Running Alexa skills from your local machine

Talk to Alexa skills running on your local machine. Stop waiting for Lambda deployments. Debug step-by-step.

• Works with skills developed using the official Alexa NodeJS SDK v2.
• Uses ngrok to expose your local endpoint to Alexa and inspect requests and responses.

Setup

• Find the index.js file containing your ASK SDK NodeJS skill handler code (usually in skill-name/lambda/custom)
• Add server.js to the same folder where index.js is located

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const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

const handler = require('./index').handler;

function CreateHandler(handler) {
    return (req, res) => {
        handler(req.body, null, (err, result) => {
            if (err) {
                return res.status(500).send(err);

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'use strict';

var Zap = {

  get_session_info: function(bundle) {
    /*
    Argument:
      bundle.request.url: <string>
      bundle.request.headers: <object>
      bundle.request.params: <object> # this will be mapped into the querystring

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{
    "directives": [
        {
            "type": "Alexa.Presentation.APL.RenderDocument",
            "token": "intro",
            "document": {
                "type": "APL",
                "version": "1.0",
                "theme": "dark",
                "import": [],

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Scrape Alexa Skills Kit Documentation to eBook

Downloads all sections of the online documentation available at https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-skills-kit-interface-reference and converts it to eBook.

Prerequisites

pip3 install beautifulsoup4 requests

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• I am mlopezr on github.
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