This is an Alexa skill template that provides a simple example of a skill that calls an external API. The API used is the api.open-notify.org API which returns a list of the astronauts currently in space.
To try a live example of this skill template, you can enable the Ground Control Alexa skill. Just say: Alexa, enable Ground Control and then Alexa, open Ground Control.
This template uses the Alexa Skills Kit SDK 2.0 for Node.js and was designed to be used with the Alexa Skills Kit Command-Line Interface (aka: ASK-CLI). After installing the ASK-CLI you can run the following command to setup a new skill project based on this template.
$ ask new --template --url http://skilltemplates.com/templates.json
After running the previous command you'll see of list of templates to choose from. Pick the template named API Starter. This will create a new folder named ./api-starter/ all of the code for the template will be located in that folder.
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