Alexa Lambda Integration with Skills SDK and NPM

Create a Skill API key

Each Skill needs its own API key for tracking.

Create a Skill to get an API key.

Install Dashbot via NPM

npm install --save dashbot

Include Dashbot

Use the API key created above.

const dashbot = require('dashbot')(process.env.DASHBOT_API_KEY).alexa;

Wrap your handler in the Dashbot handler call

before:

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
  const alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);
  alexa.appId = APP_ID;
  alexa.resources = languageString;
  alexa.registerHandlers(newSessionHandlers, startStateHandlers, triviaStateHandlers, helpStateHandlers);
    alexa.execute();
};

after:

exports.handler = <strong>dashbot.handler(</strong>(event, context, callback) => {
  const alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);
  alexa.appId = APP_ID;
  alexa.resources = languageString;
  alexa.registerHandlers(newSessionHandlers, startStateHandlers, triviaStateHandlers, helpStateHandlers);
  alexa.execute();
}<strong>)</strong>;

You’re all set!

Example

Using the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js and AWS Lambda, it is easy to integrate Dashbot.

We have added Dashbot to these three sample Alexa Skills: