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Tyler Berger
Tyler Berger
268 Points
Posted by Tyler Berger
Tyler Berger
268 Points

"Web Scraping" in Alexa Skill.

Hello,

I own and am in control of a Shopify eCommerce store.

I am new to Alexa Skills, but I am using AWS Lambda currently and am language-agnostic (I don't care which language I have to use).

I would like someone to be able to ask for a product in my Alexa Skill and then the Skill return the Quantity Available on the web page for that specific product.

How would I go about doing that?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

I only just discovered this message. It might have gotten more attention if it had been posted in the "API" category.

1 Answer

Warren Fung
Warren Fung
4,268 Points
Warren Fung
Warren Fung
4,268 Points

you can store all the products in your ecommerce store in a database, with the product and quantities available. then have your AWS lambda call the database with the respective rows + columns and return that value as a string and have alexa say the quantity and etc.