Welcome to the Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI) Space

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Today we announced that developers can now programmatically manage and test their skills with the Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI) and the Alexa Skills Kit Command-line Interface (ASK CLI), new features in the Alexa Skills Kit.

You can now perform a full range of skill management and testing functions directly from the command line and with REST APIs using the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI) and the Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI). Use ASK CLI for programmatic management of your own skills. Use SMAPI for creating tools that include skill management in their workflow.

To continue learning more, please see our blog post here.

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Answer by Peter@AMZN · Sep 06, 2017 at 04:59 PM

Hi RJ,

Could you please try uninstalling the CLI and reinstalling?

You can do this by

$ npm uninstall -g ask-cli

Then

$ npm install -g ask-cli

Please run "ask init" again after reinstalling, then let us know if it still doesn't work.

Thanks!

Peter

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Answer by NewUser-f09642b6-5dad-468e-a121-e4b9b1f0cd85 · Sep 18, 2017 at 05:03 AM

Hey, when I'm trying to get my skill info via SMAPI with token I got from Login with Amazon it says "User has not consented to this operation"? What am I doing wrong?

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Optimus · Sep 25, 2017 at 10:15 AM 0

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I was getting this all yesterday. I can't figure it out either.

isabin Optimus · Oct 04, 2017 at 05:15 PM 0

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I am having the same issue. Here is the URL that I am using:

https://www.amazon.com/ap/oa?client_id=XXX≻ope=alexa%3A%3Aask%3Askills%3Aread%20alexa%3A%3Aask%3Amodels%3Aread%20profile&response_type=code&state=YYY&redirect_uri=ZZZ

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Answer by NewUser-80eb39a1-86c1-4c38-af76-efc54feb588d · Jun 19, 2018 at 07:46 AM

Hi,

When I run 'ask init' a login browser page is opened. I login with my amazon account, and I am geting a Success message, but in the console I am geting the next error:

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures}

	Call list-vendors error.
	Error code: 401
	{
	"message": "You are not authorized to access this operation."
	}

Can you help me?

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NewUser-34950af1-9d78-4b81-9b23-35f4b3df8137 · Jul 12, 2018 at 06:54 AM 0

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Hey!

I am facing the same issue. Were you able to resolve this error?

Thanks in advance.

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Answer by AJ · Sep 06, 2017 at 03:41 AM

Leia - Thanks a lot. I was really waiting for something like this. Seems like I don't permissions to use this API yet. Can you please guide me how to get permission to use the SMAPI?

I am getting following error:

AWS credential detected.
Switch to Login with Amazon page...
Tokens fetched and written to cli config.
Call list-vendors error.
Error code: 403
{ message: 'User is not authorized to access this operation.' }

Thanks,

RJ

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Answer by Peter@AMZN · Sep 08, 2017 at 10:44 PM

Hi RJ,

Could you please try uninstalling and re-installing the CLI? You can uninstall by running

$ npm uninstall ask-cli

Then re-install by running

$ npm install -g ask-cli

Please let us know if this doesn't fix the problem.

Thanks!

Peter

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Answer by dabblelab · Sep 16, 2017 at 02:59 PM

Hi Leia, is there a reference example of the ~/.ask/cli_config someplace? I'm trying to figure out how to set deployment defaults. Thanks!

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Answer by Ross Bohner · Sep 17, 2018 at 10:39 PM

Necroing this thread as I ran into this problem as well. I was getting the error

Switch to 'Login with Amazon' page...

Tokens fetched and recorded in ask-cli config.

Call list-vendors error.

Error code: 401

{

"message": "You are not authorized to access this operation."

}

when calling "ask init"

turns out the account that you need to sign into when the process opens the web browser is the Alexa developers account. NOT the aws console account. Once I did that everything worked as expected

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