Quick and Dirty Self-Hosted Alexa Skills (2019)


I hate creating Alexa skills. What should be a 3-click process inevitably ends up requiring trips to multiple websites, to set up weird parameters, and reading outdated tutorials for obsolete libraries. So this is how to create a self-hosted Skill, using PHP. It runs on your own server and doesn't require any interaction. The Skill At a basic level, all your website has to do is spit out a piece of JSON for Alexa to read out. // Set the correct header for JSON data header('Content-Type:…

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