Dabble Lab has created another great tutorial video for enhancing your Alexa Skills with personalized user information. If you have ever wondered how to get a user’s email address, here’s how you do it.
In this video, Steve Tingiris shows the nitty gritty details of getting a user data. By requesting permissions for data in the Alexa Developer Console and a few lines of code, your users will have the option to offer their information to you.
As a developer, once you have a user’s email address and phone number, the possibilities are endless as to what you can accomplish. For instance, you could combine this lesson with our SMS text message tutorial to send your users a message straight to their cell phone! You could also build an email list to cross-promote your other skills and websites, or offer additional information/configuration through a web interface.
NOTE: As always, be careful what you do with user information. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) laws and standards vary across the globe, so make sure that you do your research before you potentially expose your users to undue harm.