Build an Alexa Flight Departure Time Skill [TUTORIAL]

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• Hi David, really helpful tutorial. I was trying to build a skill for events using the Ticketmaster API on RapidAPI. I was having trouble parsing the responses. I receive an error:

  TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
  at Object.EventHub.rapid.call.on [as success] (/var/task/index.js:25:41)
  at Request.e [as _callback] (/var/task/node_modules/rapidapi-connect/index.js:90:46)

  The error refers to the var eventName line in the index.js code below. I have tried but am having trouble parsing the response. It seems that the callback is successful but it cannot access the slots. Any ideas?

  var Alexa = require('alexa-sdk');
  const RapidAPI = new require('rapidapi-connect');
  const rapid = new RapidAPI('EventHub', '####');

  var handlers = {
  'LaunchRequest': function() {
  this.emit(':ask', 'Welcome to Event Hub. Ask something like, find rock concerts near Seattle');
  },

  'EventHub': function() {
  var keyword = this.event.request.intent.slots.keyword.value;
  //var region = this.event.request.Events.slots.Region.value;

  rapid.call('Ticketmaster', 'searchEvents', {
  'apiKey': '####',
  'keyword': keyword

  }).on ('success', (payload) => {
  //console.log(payload);
  var eventList = payload[0]["_embedded"]["events"];
  this.emit(':tell', 'Listing 5 most recents events for ' + keyword);

  for (var i = 0; i {
  this.emit(':tell', 'Sorry, there was an error finding the event.');
  });
  }
  };

  exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {
  var alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);
  alexa.appId = "####";
  alexa.registerHandlers(handlers);
  alexa.execute();
  };

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