How do I create an Alexa Skill that gets data from an HTTP/HTTPS API (using “Alexa Skills Kit” for Node.js on AWS Lambda)

Question

I want to create a skill for Amazon Alexa that - when triggered by voice commands - gets some information from an API via a HTTPS request and uses the result as spoken answe

Answer 1

This is a sample code (not mine) that uses the alexa sdk which doesnt need to use awsLambda and works with just express, pure nodejs server

https://github.com/Glogo/alexa-skill-sample-nodejs-express