circle-round

Unofficial Alexa app that plays Circle Round podcasts

flow

1. "Alexa, ask Circle Round to play the episode about oni and ricecakes"
2. search through the keyword column of the google sheet for a match
3. if there's a match, say the title and begin playing from the podcast URL
4. if there's no match, direct users back to step 1.

development

• set up required environment variables in the AWS lambda console:

  • API_KEY = Google Sheet API key
  • SHEET_ID = Google Sheet Id (visible in the sheet URL)

• lambda related work is all in the /lambda directory. To push changes, use the publish.sh script which assumes you already have the AWS CLI set up with the right env variables.

• skill.json is the interaction model json and can be copy/pasted directly into the alexa developer console's JSON editor.