myfeed_skill

Overview

This skill manages MyFeed things and groups through the My Life Feed REST API. It lets you create timed things (events/reminders), invite individual friends or entire groups, and list groups to find group IDs. It is configured via an API key stored in an environment variable.

How this skill works

The skill sends POST requests to the My Life Feed API with JSON payloads for requests like create_thing and get_groups. It authenticates using an ApiKey in the Authorization header and accepts parameters for description, start_time (epoch milliseconds), alarms (type and value), and invites (phone_number or group_id). Responses return group lists and confirmation of created things.

When to use it

• Create reminders or events that notify friends or groups.
• Invite a phone-number contact or an entire group to a thing.
• Discover group_id values by listing groups before sending group invites.
• Automate batch creation of reminders with multiple alarm offsets.
• Integrate MyFeed actions into scripts or cron jobs for scheduled tasks.

Best practices

• Keep your MyFeed API key secret and store it in an environment variable (MyFeed_API_KEY).
• Use start_time in the future and in epoch milliseconds to ensure scheduling works correctly.
• When inviting a group, do not include other individual invites in the same create_thing request.
• Respect rate limits: limit to 3 requests per 10 seconds per API key.
• Validate phone_number format as country prefix plus number without a leading + (e.g., 19255264501).

Example use cases

• Create a birthday reminder and invite a friend by phone number with two alarm offsets (minutes and hours).
• List all groups and filter by name to find the right group_id for an office or family group.
• Schedule a team reminder and invite a group_id so every member receives the thing and alarms.
• Automate recurring event creation in a deployment script, using epoch milliseconds for precise timing.