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Support an Alexa Verification action

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#55 opened on Apr 24, 2020

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When building Alexa skills, there's boilerplate code you use to verify the request coming in is valid. It can be run before your code and would make a great action step in a workflow.

Here's an example one I built in OpenWhisk (https://www.raymondcamden.com/2017/08/18/an-openwhisk-package-for-alexa-verification). OpenWhisk supports sequences, like pipedream workflows, and I used it in Alexa skills I went public with.

Describe the solution you'd like It would just do the verification crap.

Do you have a workaround? I could do it in a custom Node.js script.

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Research direction
Review existing action components for structure, then implement Alexa request verification logic using the steps from Raymond Camden's OpenWhisk example.
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javascript
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api
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