I'm currently getting into developing alexa-skills. This is in fact the 1st time I'm trying this and I kinda works out good so far. However, I stumbled upon a problem which seems to be wide-spreaded but I couldn't find an answer how to solve it.
First things first: I started this skill by following a tutorial. It might be that this tutorial is outdated and therefore this error appears.
I created a skill from the scratch and it works to the part where the LaunchRequest is invoked:
As you can see, I get my response as expected. (works on the test-environment as well as on alexa itself). Now, when try to call an IntentRequest, I just get the error-message:
The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.
As I can tell from the picture / request, the correct intent-request is called (in my case getSubscriberCount ) - And this is the point where I have no idea anymore on how to resolve this problem.
To keep things short, this here is the JS-part for the Intent:
case "IntentRequest":
// Intent Request
console.log(INTENT REQUEST)
switch(event.request.intent.name) {
case "GetSubscriberCount":
var endpoint = "my url"
var body = ""
https.get(endpoint, (response) => {
response.on('data', (chunk) => { body += chunk })
response.on('end', () => {
var data = JSON.parse(body)
var subscriberCount = data.items[0].statistics.subscriberCount
context.succeed(
generateResponse(
buildSpeechletResponse(`Du hast momentan ${subscriberCount} Abonnenten`, true),
{}
)
)
And this is causing my problems. To test what exactly is wrong, I tried the following:
- Called the endpoint in my browser --> Correct output
- Adjusted the "response" to the minimum to see if that works --> didn't work
- Checked several sources related to this error --> didn't help either
I saw some approaches to get rid of this, since this seems to be a common issue, but I got lost. Someone mentioned an environment variable, which I couldn't put my hands on. Another one suggested to run the JSON request manually, which I tried, but leading to the same error.
Hopefully you can help me out here.
