https://github.com/pvsune/falcon_ask
Toolkit for writing Amazon Alexa skills in your Falcon app
https://github.com/pvsune/falcon_ask
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Toolkit for writing Amazon Alexa skills in your Falcon app
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pvsune/falcon_ask
- Owner: pvsune
- Created: 2017-10-27T06:50:45.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-10-22T23:18:30.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-28T13:21:16.046Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: alexa-skills-kit, amazon-echo-dot, falcon, python
- Language: Python
- Size: 21.5 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Falcon-Ask [](https://travis-ci.org/pvsune/falcon_ask)
Minimal Python3 toolkit to create Amazon Alexa skills with [Falcon](https://falconframework.org/).
Builds on top of [Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/ask-overviews/build-skills-with-the-alexa-skills-kit.html) to bootstrap boilerplate code so you don't have to!
Inspired by [Flask-Ask](https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask) and [Alexandra](https://github.com/erik/alexandra).
# Synopsis
A Falcon app might look like this.
```python
import json
import falcon
from falcon_ask import dispatch_request, FalconAskMiddleware, respond
def intent_fn(body):
# "body" contains request POST data.
return 'Congratulations! Your new alexa skill works great.'
class AlexaResource(object):
# Dictionary mapping of "IntentRequest" to function.
intent_maps = {
'GreetingIntent': intent_fn,
}
# Message to return when "LaunchRequest" is received.
welcome = 'Hi, welcome to your new alexa skill.'
def on_post(self, req, resp):
response = dispatch_request(req)
resp.body = json.dumps(respond(response, end_session=False))
app = falcon.API(middleware=[
# Do validation of request certificate and timestamp.
FalconAskMiddleware(AlexaResource, validate=True),
])
app.add_route('/', AlexaResource())
```
Save above code to `alexa.py` and run via `$ gunicorn alexa:app`. Make sure [gunicorn](http://gunicorn.org/) is installed.
# Installation
To install Falcon-Ask, simply use [pipenv](http://pipenv.org/) (or pip, of
course):
```bash
$ pip install falcon-ask
✨🍰✨
```
Satisfaction guaranteed.
# Thank You
Thanks for checking this library out! I hope you find it useful.
Of course, there's always room for improvement. Feel free to open an issue so we can make Falcon-Ask better.
Special thanks to [@muxspace](https://github.com/muxspace) for giving me an Echo Dot.