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Alexa Skill - Nutritional Cuisines #8

Open garimasingh128 opened 3 years ago

garimasingh128 commented 3 years ago

What is the skill doing? πŸ€” Alexa Skill that would present users with different cuisines based on the various nutritional values or quantities they prefer. For example, a user may ask - Alexa, give a meal that has at least 60 calories and 50 gram protein.

Where are we getting the data from? πŸ“Š For the skill to gather all the meal names with the accurate nutritional values, we are using Spoonacular API. You need to sign an setup get the API KEY.

How can I use it? In order to use the Skill on your Alexa Console, you need to import it.

Go to Alexa Console and click the New Skill button. Select your model and hosting environment and click Create Skill. Now, you will see the Import Skill button on the top right. Click on it and this repositores URL: https://github.com/alexa-dev-hub/alexa-skill-nutritional-cuisines.git Once it finishes processing, you can test the skill. Skill Details The Skill can be used as template for API calling. Currently the intents have 8 slots, having values of maxCarbs, minProtein etc. You need your own API Key, and add it to the lambda code. MORE SPECIFICS TO BE ADDED.

Read issue : https://github.com/garimasingh128/Alexa-skills-starters/issues/2 on how to add the skill

pawankm21 commented 3 years ago

I would like to work on this issue

pawankm21 commented 3 years ago

I created the API key and added it to lambda code, should I make a pull request?

garimasingh128 commented 3 years ago

Sure. Note down to not expose your API keys and other secret info if they are present. Just put env files in gitignore.

pawankm21 commented 3 years ago

ok