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What is in the history of today view
Inspiration
Learning how to use Alexa Presentation Language on the Alexa skills is my inspiration for developing an Alexa skill using Alexa Presentation Language. I want to display the data I gathered from an API on the display of Alexa devices properly and decided to use historical data for this purpose.
What it does
The purpose of the skill is to inform the user about what happened today in history. When you enable the skill for your Alexa device and say "Alexa, ask history today to give me what happened today in history", it gives, tells, and shows you a description of what happened today in history.
How I built it
I built the project using the data provided by Today in History API (http://history.muffinlabs.com/). The presented data are licensed using CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/), the same license used for Wikipedia data. The project is developed by using Alexa Presentation Language.
Challenges I ran into
The challenge is to form the strings to be presented in the user interface properly while using Amazon Presentation Language with the API that is used to find out what happened today.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am mostly proud of learning Alexa Presentation Language and developing a skill with Alexa Presentation Language.
What I learned
I learned how to use Alexa Presentation Language on the Alexa skills.
What's next for History of Today
Asking for the history of a specific date can be the next step for History of Today.
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