I have created one "Flash Briefing skill" and I wanted to test it.
Is is possible to test "Flash Briefing skill" without the echo device??
or if it is possible then please let me know how??
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Two ways:
Use echosim : https://echosim.io/
Use the tester in the amazon developer site.
I was struggling to test my Alexa briefing skill. I found this post - https://www.voice2biz.com/alexa-flash-briefing-woes/
I says you can't use the Alexa Test tab to test a Flash Briefing skill.
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I'm following the official documentation while creating the Alexa Smart Home skill. The Create a Lambda function and add code step, point 6 is asking me to "…select the Alexa Smart Home trigger". But there is no Alexa Smart home trigger in the Triggers list. Do I do something wrong?
I just noticed this too, but quickly realized that it is not on the Ohio server. You must choose N. Virginia, EU (Ireland), or US West (Oregon).
Ok, I've found the problem. The Alexa Smart Home trigger is not available in the EU server location!
I was struck on this for a while until I did realise, that smart home is available at very limited place. For example they've mentioned in the I formation section as well to select the smart home. For India, Europe. They've suggested to select Ireland. This is explicitly available in Lambda function as Smart Home Skill.
Do you guys know if Alexa can register a custom user said word that is no a AMAZON.Something, now that AMAZON.literal (which was a catch all for any word) is deprecated.
For example for a skill like "wikipedia". Whereby I want to be able to say "Hey alexa, wikipedia {word}" without having to have a custom slot type with all words on wikipedia. Would that be possible ?
That is a common concern, so Amazon published this blog post to address it:
Why a Custom Slot is the Literal Solution (November 25, 2016)
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/Tx3IHSFQSUF3RQP/Why-a-Custom-Slot-is-the-Literal-Solution
is there any ways crawling / monitoring instagram data for research purpose ?
I tried the official API but it only worked in sandbox which is impossible for crawling the real info like followers. I need to monitor certain accounts and also extend the range by the followers / followings and track their behaviors (e.g. the progress of number of likes)
So anybody can have some suggestions ? or could give me some references about related crawling task ?
Maybe you can try using beautiful soup library and read this book by Ryan Mitchell: Web Scraping with Python. Basically you should understand the DOM, REGEXs and how to algorithmically jump page to page so that you can get started.
Also do check a site's ToS before you start and know that they may have some guidelines/rules against scraping as generally all sites have robot.txt files these days that specify how/what you're allowed to scrape
I'm really amazed how Google provides the showtimes of all the current movies in my country (Argentina)! I was about to start a project related to this, and needed that info so I thought to scrap all the cinemas websites of my city... but then I just asked my self how does google do this? I mean their algorithms are so good that they can tell if the site is a cinema site or not, and they can grab the info they need all automatically?
Does anyone know any good book or site to read about this? I mean how to do an "smart scrapping"?
Thanks!
I don't know how they get the data, maybe really smart scrapers but for your other question:
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html
Please, could you provide me some resources (web-links) to learn qt-dbus?
I already have a process which provides QtDBus interface, I want to learn it so that I can communicate with it.
First hits from a Google search for qt-dbus and qt-dbus tutorial:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/intro-to-dbus.html
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/QtDbus_quick_tutorial
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#D-Bus
There were many more interesting hits to list here. Their usefuleness to you depends on what you want to do, of course.
There are some more useful links since Dec '10:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtdbus.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/examples-dbus.html
In my opinion, this is the best tutorial to start: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#D-Bus
http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/QtDbus_quick_tutorial
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/D-Bus/CustomTypes
If you want to introspect D-Bus objects and messages you can use following tools:
http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qdbusviewer.html
https://wiki.gnome.org/DFeet
Nokia has some great Maemo code that you can look off of. I found it's well documented and useful.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/DBus/DBus_Basics