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Luca Innocenti asked

How to get the userid?

How is possible to retrieve userid (from Skill I/O Json) in Alexa Skills using NodeJs_

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Mr H Speight answered

Update - SDK now has a utility for this:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs/utilities.html

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How to get userId in sdk v1:

const userId = this.event.context.System.user.userId

sdk v2:

const userId = handlerInput.requestEnvelope.context.System.user.userId
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