Make google actions development project preview persist longer

Question

I want to make google voice actions app for my Google Home. But, based on quick research, as of Dec 11, google does not allow private projects for Google Home.

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Answer 1

I have found a way to create the Action on API.ai and then preview it indefinitely.

From API.ai:

1. Open browser dev console (Network tab)
2. Go to Integrations
3. Turn on "Actions on Google" integration
4. Click "Authorize"
5. Click "Preview"

6. Inspect the XHR response from https://console.api.ai/api/agent/googleassistant/preview in the Network dev console

   {  
     "status":{  
     "code":401,
     "errorType":"unauthorized",
     "errorDetails":"You are not authorized for this operation. ",
     "webhookTimedOut":false
      }
   }
   

7. Copy/paste the content of the response into a file called action.json

Then, download and install the gactions CLI from here - gactions CLI and then run this command:

gactions preview --action_package action.json --preview_mins 9999999 \
  --invocation_name [your_own_invocation_name_here] 

The preview_mins value of 9999999 makes the preview effectively indefinite.

Here is a video demonstrating it: