A light(er)weight toolkit to create Alexa skills (Python 3.6)

Requirements:

• Python 3.6 or newer

From GitHub:

Clone/download this repo and run this from the echokit/ directory:

python setup.py install

Sample skills can be found at https://github.com/arcward/echokit under the samples/ directory.

More comprehensive documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs

When you're configuring your skill in the Alexa developer console, you'll be given an ID for your skill. This can be specified in EchoKit, as well as whether it should verify incoming application IDs.

When you configure your Lambda function, you'll need to specify a handler for incoming requests as well. To set these:

from echokit import EchoKit

app = EchoKit("your_app_id")
handler = app.handler

If, for example, your skill's module is sample.py, then you would define sample.handler as the handler in your Lambda function.

Responses to requests are created via :class:`echokit.response.Response`

There are three decorators to handle each basic request type, as well as one to handle slots:

from echokit import EchoKit

app = EchoKit("your_app_id")
handler = app.handler

# LaunchRequest
@app.launch
def on_launch(request, session):
    pass

# SessionEndedRequest
@app.session_ended
def on_session_ended(request, session):
    pass

# IntentRequest
@app.intent("MyIntentName")
def on_my_intent(request, session):
    pass

# IntentRequest (with slots)
@app.intent("MyIntentWithSlots")
@app.slot("first_slot", "second_slot")
def on_intent_with_slots(request, session, first_slot, second_slot):
    pass

echozip is a script included to help create ZIP deployment packages. If you installed via setup.py, you can run it from the command line (try echozip --help).

Specify your top-level package directory. For example, if your __init__.py is located at example/__init__.py you would run echozip example

This would create a ZIP file in your current directory, named like example_{YY-MM-DD-HHMMSS}.zip. If you extract it again, you'll see that it includes the full subtree of the directory you specified, with an additional echokit/ directory at the top level.

Your ZIP file should be created from within your top-level package (don't just zip the enclosing directory). You'll need to download/clone echokit and include echokit/ in in that same top-level directory. So if your __init__.py is in ~/my_project/ you should have ~/my_project/echokit.

See the official docs for more info.