I just started working on my first Alexa skill and it's been a considerable experience so far, the skill that I'm working on makes http requests to an external API and responds depending on voice commands however this API requires me to pass an "appId" variable with each request for authentication.
Right now I'm hardcoding this as an environment variable and it works fine but I was thinking that if I were to publish my skill I'll need a way for people to set their own "appId" but I'm not certain what the best way to attain this is.
I can try to let them set it with a voice command but this is a long alphanumeric string with uppercase and lowercase characters so I don't deem it'll work that well. Are there any other ways to ask for this kind of info?Thanks.
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