Questions tagged [flask-ask]

Flask-Ask is a Flask extension that makes building Alexa skills for the Amazon Echo easier and much more fun.

Flask-ask is a Flask middleware allowing to build Alexa skills much easier using the power and simplicity of Flask framework. Basic tutorial and documentation can be found on alexatutorial.com.

It can be installed through the Flask-Ask package on Pypi.

Some more basic documentation can be found on the github repo of the project.

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Trying to download flask-ask using pip but have received some errors due to incompatibility? Is there an alternative for this issue?

I am trying to download flask-ask to use it with Alexa skills, but I keep getting errors. I tried downgrading pip and that solution did not work either, as this was proposed on another forum post. Complete output (5 lines): Traceback (most recent…
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Flask-Ask: How to fix 'flask.debughelpers.FormDataRoutingRedirect' error?

I'm developing Alexa Skill with Flask-Ask. When I test my skill, error are thrown. I using nginx proxy for Flask-Ask. (Previously, it worked fine on another server.) Now, the another server has same problem. So I think there is another problem, not…
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AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509V3_EXT_get'

running ubuntu 18.10 python version 3.6.7 flask flask-ask trying to test my alexa skill via Ngrok before deployment but I keep running into an error when I go to launch my flask python file. I launches fine: $ python main.py Running on…
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How do I verify an Alexa request when running Flask-Ask and Apache2 with WSGI

I have built an application utilizing Python that I have integrated successfully with Alexa. Since this application is very specific to my household, I was not too concerned about the deployment process since you can run in development mode forever…
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flask-ask name 'ask' is not defined when using Blueprints and a separate views.py

When following tutorials the @ask decorator works when it is in the same file as ask = Ask(app, "/someroute") and after app = Flask(name). If I wish to put the @ask decorators in a view file in its own folder, using Blueprints no matter what I try…
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Unable to display text output with Alexa Show via flask-ask

So I have built a custom pool control system in Python. I then used Flask-ask to integrate this with my Echo Dots and Show. With the Echo Show, I was using a simple_card format which reads back all my information while showing it on the…
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Amazon Alexa Proactive Events request in Python flask-ask

I am trying to make a request to the Proactive Events API by using the requests module of Python. However I always receive a response that the scope is invalid. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong? My code looks like this: @ask.launch def…
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Flask-ask AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509V3_EXT_get'

I'm using flask-ask in virtual environment with Ngrok. I keep getting 500 Internal server errors I get the following error: File "C:\Users\laptop\Envs\alexa\lib\site-packages\OpenSSL\crypto.py", line 740, in _subjectAltNameString method =…
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how to get the text of user input in alexa using python flask-ask

Whatever and whenever user speaks I want to pass it to my API and send API response to Alexa using python flask-ask. I don't want to use AWS lambda. I want to know is it possible and if it does then how can I achieve it. eg: UserVoiceInput =…
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Alexa Entity Resolution on Flask Ask (Not handling synonyms)

I am making an alexa skill using Flask-Ask which has a custom slot - Gender. The main values are "Male", "Female" and the corresponding synonyms are "He", "she", "boy", "girl" etc The skill simply responds with the gender of the person. Eg. An…
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Accessing Amazon echo's alarm using python

Currently building an app for work, and need to be able to access Alexa's in built alarm with python, so far i haven't found any obvious way of doing this. I've hit a brick wall with how to approach this problem so it would be a big help if someone…
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Detecting supported interfaces in Flask-Ask Alexa Echo Show

I am trying to build a voice skill for both Echo Show [Screen Enabled] and Echo Dot [Audio only]. Apparently the response directives have to be changed depending on the device if not, it would result in "Alexa having trouble accessing the…
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Raspberry pi-zero python3.9 from flask_ask import Ask gets moduleError, with a module that I already installed

With my raspberry pi-zero W I tried to install these moduls: Flask, Flask-Ask, Werkzeug (the modul that is missing apperantly) from flask_ask import Ask, statement The error I'm getting: ModuleNotFoundError : No module name 'werkzeug.contrib' The…
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Error when using time with multiple conditions in Python

The problem is, variable t1 is inside the loop, but I can't use it outside (because it's not defined); So the program returns "UnboundLocalError: local variable 't1' referenced before assignment". I don't know other ways to measure the time between…
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I'm having trouble installing Flask-Ask on a Windows 10 PC

I am getting the following output when I try to install Flask-Ask on my Windows 10 PC. I have searched for solutions, but nothing has helped so far. Thanks for any help. $ pip install Flask-Ask Collecting Flask-Ask Using cached…
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