title: How do I create an Alexa Skill that gets data from an HTTP/HTTPS API (using "Alexa Skills Kit" for Node.js on AWS Lambda)
body: <p>I want to create a skill for Amazon Alexa that - when triggered by voice commands - gets some information from an API via a HTTPS request and uses the result as spoken answer to the Alexa user.</p>
  
  <p>There is a little challenge here (especially for node.js newbies) due to the event-driven concept of node.js and the internals of the <a href="https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit" rel="noreferrer">Alexa Skills Kit for Node.js</a>. And getting a hand on parameters from the user isn't that easy, either.</p>
  
  <p>Can somebody provide some sample code to start with?</p>