Otis
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Yeah. It usually tells you what you can ask and how to ask it.
Alexa Skill - Coventry City (1 Viewer)
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Otis
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Maybe I need to have a word with Dale Evans to see what he thinks.
Nick
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Going to have to make one now aren't I?
Otis
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Would be great I think.
It's the only forum one I can see to be honest. Most of them are either trivia, fun facts or quiz ones.
Otis
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That would be excellent. Without even getting out my bed I can get the lowdown before the day has even begun.
Nick
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Yes there is rss. When at computer I'll find the links.
I use RSS from news sites to get data into here from those already, and podcasts
shmmeee
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I tried the one from the link in the bottom right corner, and edited the URL to be just the CCFC forum, and it loaded the XML in my browser, but when I put it into the Alexa setup page, it tells me it's malformed.
The requirements for the feeds are here: Flash Briefing Skill API Feed Reference | Flash Briefing
Don't know how much control you have over them though.
Edit: this was the feed I was using: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/forums/coventry-city-general-chat.7/index.rss
ccfcway
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so its like a wife ?
Otis
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Yeah, but she says nice things to me and never has a headache.
Nick
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Does it show what isnt valid?
IT looks ok :
Feed Validator Results: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/forums/coventry-city-general-chat.7/index.rss
stevefloyd
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So your wifes not all bad like you allude then
shmmeee
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It just says “feed is malformed” and gives that link. I think it expects a certain format. From memory it has to be https and it has to have a “description” tag and no more than 5 items at once. Have a look at that link, I reckon you’d need to set up a custom feed that meets the Flash Briefing requirements.
Nick
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People like Jim Brown may have something.
Another idea may be "on this day". I have a book of them somewhere but a pain to type them all out!
shmmeee
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In case you can’t be arsed to follow the link:
Feed format requirements:
For text content items
- Provide the format type as a MIME type in HTTP Content-Type header
- Provide between 1 and 5 unique feed items at a time.
- If more items are provided, Alexa ignores items beyond the first five.
- Items are presented in order from newest to oldest, based on the date value for the item. Alexa may ignore older items.
- Each item in the feed should be unique and should not overlap with content in another feed item.
- Each item in a feed should contain an audio item, title and description, or a text item, title and description. For audio items, the text element must be present, but only the audio contents will play to the customer.
RSS text multi-item example
- Each feed item is currently limited to 4500 characters, and will be truncated if it exceeds this length. The truncation will occur at the nearest full sentence below 4500 characters.
- Should be plain text and not contain special characters such as SSML, HTML or XML tags.
- Should be properly punctuated, short, and easily understood when read aloud. Commas (,) and semicolons (
This example contains multiple text items that Alexa reads to the customer and plays an earcon sound between the items. The title and link will display in the Alexa app.
Content-Type: application/rss+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<ttl>30</ttl>
<item>
<title>Multi Item RSS (TTS)</title>
<link>https://www.amazon.com</link>
<pubDate>2016-05-23T00:00:00.0Z</pubDate>
<description>This channel has multiple TTS RSS items. This is item one.</description>
<guid>urn:uuid:b385254e-dc31-4c4a-afc5-0de97e43923c</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title>Multi Item RSS (TTS)</title>
<link>https://www.amazon.com</link>
<pubDate>2016-05-23T00:00:00.0Z</pubDate>
<description>This channel has multiple TTS RSS items. This is item two.</description>
<guid>urn:uuid:cf093eed-66f2-4dee-bdad-02ff0510194b</guid>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Old Warwickshire lad
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I was lost before I started.
Old Warwickshire lad
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I miss the 60,s lol
Old Warwickshire lad
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NoThanks for the comprehensive low-down, Otis, but I think this is a bit too "Star Trekish" for my liking!Are Alexa's jokes any good?
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Are Alexa's jokes any good?
Old Warwickshire lad
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shmmeee
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I was thinking just the post titles which limits it a bit on embedded media. Emojis might be an issue, but you could write something to strip them out.
I know fuck all about RSS feeds. Could I just host my own and do preprocessing on the SBT one to make it meet the format requirements then serve up the modified version?
Nick
Administrator
That would work, it would be a case of loading it, parsing it and then spitting it back out in the format you need.
shmmeee
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I'll have a squiz at the weekend and see if I can get something working. Then you have to go through certification to allow others to use it, which seems to take ages. If I get anything working I'll post videos up for feedback.
shmmeee
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Ha! I have already put one Easter Egg in. I’ll spoil it because it’s not likely to ever be heard (thanks to your excellent web mastering).
You have to set a message for when the feed is down, so I chose:
Somerset Sky Blue
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Did anyone get an Alexa skill to work for the sky blues?
Just got one for Christmas and even though I can select Coventry as my football team, it says the next fixture is the fa cup - doesn't cover league two!
Just got one for Christmas and even though I can select Coventry as my football team, it says the next fixture is the fa cup - doesn't cover league two!
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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I clicked on this thread thinking Alexa Skill was a player we were signing.
Gazolba
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I prefer not to flash my briefs, thank you.
