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devict / votelocal

A web app for receiving local voting information via SMS
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Audio Queries #52

Open mikebellwethr opened 5 years ago

mikebellwethr commented 5 years ago

Hi all, I'm new to this project but I talked to Seth yesterday and had a couple thoughts. Is there a way to query information? From what I understand the app will push info out. The original thought was that we could tie in Alexa/Siri, asking 'Who's my rep' etc., but talking to Seth I don't think that would be possible at this time.

renmichaela commented 5 years ago

Why were you thinking it's not possible? We could tie in this api: https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/v2/

and expose it via a Laravel API we create. Then once the end user enabled the VoteICT skill, it would just query our VoteICT API for the information.

Seems fairly simple. (Have experience building skills. They're fun!)

mikebellwethr commented 5 years ago

Jake, I am far from a developer. But that sounds super cool =)

renmichaela commented 5 years ago

No worries! Glad to have some outside perspective. I hadn't even thought of a smart speaker app. Such a great idea!

sethetter commented 5 years ago

This is an awesome idea! +1 for the google civic info API. I've worked with it a little before and it wasn't difficult to use!