Client Twilio

Twilio, among many messaging options provides cost-effective worldwide SMS messaging platform.

For a description on how to register your bot with Twilio and obtain the necessary security tokens read the Twilio Documentation

The Twilio client operates as a RESTfl webhook server that Twilio calls whenever it receives a message. We configure these settings as follows in config.yaml

twilio:
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 5000
  debug: false

Twilio developer portal provides the Accoutn SID for your bot and the Authentication token. You will also need to purchase a telephone number with SMS rights, and this is also included in license.keys as follows

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = AC5a29c358a204df93efdc0eafbe9d98ff
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = 624dba32525be7a8063a7ccccd26c595
TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER = +441315105590

You can then run the Twilio client with the following shell script

#! /bin/sh

clear

export PYTHONPATH=../../src:.

python3 ../../src/programy/clients/twilio_client.py --config ./config.yaml --cformat yaml --logging ./logging.yaml