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Alejo Ribes
Alejo Ribes

Reputation: 1415

Alexa Skill with cheerio

Hello I'm trying to use cheerio in a Alexa Skill to get data from website and add in skill. The code of intent

const HelloWorldIntentHandler = {
canHandle(handlerInput) {
    return Alexa.getRequestType(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'IntentRequest'
        && Alexa.getIntentName(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) === 'all_titles';
},
handle(handlerInput) {
    //Lógica para speak output
    var options = {
        uri: 'https://es.pagetest.com/',
        transform: function (body) {
            return cheerio.load(body);
        }
    };

    rp(options)
    .then(function ($) {
        var arr_response = []
        var titles = $('.ms-short-title');
        titles.each((i, a) =>{
            if(a.parent.attribs.title !== undefined)arr_response.push(a.parent.attribs.title);
        });

        const speakOutput = insert_in_string(arr_response);

        return handlerInput.responseBuilder
            .speak(speakOutput)
            //.reprompt('add a reprompt if you want to keep the session open for the user to respond')
            .getResponse();
        function insert_in_string (arr_titulars){
            var string_text = '';
            for(var titular of arr_titulars){
                string_text += titular + ' Siguiente titular. ';
            }
            return string_text;
        }
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        return err;
    });

}

};

I have tested the logic locally and it works ok, by putting it in alexa code editor, in test, return error message, but not a trace ¿Any idea? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Steven Senkus
Steven Senkus

Reputation: 111

If you are using Alexa-hosted Skills, you will have CloudWatch integration already built-in. Simply go to your Amazon Developer Console, navigate to your Skill's Code tab, scroll to the bottom and click the Logs: Amazon CloudWatch link on the bottom left.

Now, every time that you console.log, it will be sent to CloudWatch. So, in your catch handler, add console.log(err) and you should be able to see what's going wrong.

This blog post might also help: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/71ac4c05-9e33-41d2-abbf-472ba66126cb/3-tips-to-troubleshoot-your-custom-alexa-skill-s-back-end

Upvotes: 1

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