Alexa Variables

The following variables are automatically added to your conversation when your chatbot is conversating on this channel:

Variable	Description
bot_channel	Set to "AlexaChannel"
device_id	The id of the device currently contacting your chatbot
locale	The locale of the device currently contacting your chatbot
alexa_user_id	The full Alexa user id retrieved from Alexa contact data
alexa_account_link_token	The account link token that Alexa is retrieving from your won account linking procedure
device_state	The current state of the Alexa device
alexa_api_endpoint	The Alexa reply endpoint
alexa_api_messaging_token	The Alexa messaging token value
user_name	The user name of your contact
first_name	The first name of your contact
user_email	The full email address of your contact
country_code	The two letter ISO country code of your contact
postal_code	The delivery postal code of your contact
state_or_region	The delivery state or region of your contact
city	The delivery city of your contact
address_line1	The delivery first address line of your contact
address_line2	The delivery second address line of your contact
address_line3	The delivery third address line of your contact
district_or_country	The delivery district or country of your contact

Some of the fields above are related to very specific Skill permissions that need to be requested from the user and specified in your skill deployment from the Amazon Skill Development dashboard. If the required permissions are not requested the fields will be left blank.