Alexa Skill from Visual Studio Code

Question

First of all, sorry if this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find any info after searching for a while

I want to code an Alexa skill from VSCode using Python, as I prefer it rather than coding on the browser. I tried following the steps on "offline tools"(image) but I've been struggling to get it working

Option A, extension:

When I open the Alexa Skill Toolkit(ASK) VSCode extension, sign in and try to import my existing project, it asks for some git credentials which I couldn't get after following this tutorial.

Manually making the petition from Python ends up with a 401 Response (I don't know what the value of the Authorization header should be)
Executing ask util git-credentials-helper didn't work either

Option B, CLI:

After installing NodeJS and ASK-CLI, i get a could not fetch origin error using ask init --hosted-skill-id amzn1.ask.skill.myId

I probably just made a lot of dumb mistakes but I'm really confused rigth now, thanks in advance for the help

user_16808166 · Answer

A "401" error code means you are unauthorized. I'm assuming you didn't try to put anything in that header because you didn't what what you should have put there. Here's a guide to get an access token for your authorization header: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/get-access-token-smapi.html

Alexa Skill from Visual Studio Code

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