I have set up forwarding for voice successfully using the twimlet in the Twilio request URL...
http://twimlets.com/forward?PhoneNumber=000-000-0000
I would like to do the same for SMS messages but get errors if i place this timlet into the SMS request URL
Thank you
Twilio evangelist here.
The forward Twimlet is currently designed to work with voice phone calls only. If you want to forward text messages this is something that you would have to create yourself.
Check out this FAQ article for an example that shows how to forward SMS messages:
https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/sms/how-do-i-forward-my-sms-messages-to-another-phone-number
Hope that helps.
Related
I want to use Twilio to create an SMS relaying service where the Twilio number is the only number that is exposed, much like web proxy servers that allow you to access the Internet anonymously. I've used the example php code that twilio provides, saved it to a php file and hosted it on a public web server, then updated the messages URL on the Twilio site accordingly. Any message sent to the Twilio number the is forwarded to my mobile. Everything works fine, except for the fact that when I reply to the forwarded message from my phone, the reply includes a header that says "Sent from your Twilio trial account - + mymobilenumber" I understand that the header is inserted because I have a trial account, however I don't want the mymobilenumber field to be exposed. Is it possible to hide this?
I should mention I'm not really a programmer but I'm learning with Twilio.
I followed the example given here:
https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/sms/how-do-i-forward-my-sms-messages-to-another-phone-number
Thx
Antonio
A short code is a 5 or 6-digit number that can send and receive messages with mobile phones. These high-throughput numbers are perfect for apps that need to send messages to lots of users or need to send time sensitive messages. You can buy shortcodes from Twilio or port existing short codes to our platform.
I recently manage to do inbound/outbound calling on twilio using my Asterisk server, thanks to this topic on stackoverflow.
How can I use Twilio as a SIP trunk for my Asterisk to make and receive calls?
Now the only thing left is SMS, how can i send/recieve SMS using my Bria?
Thanks in advance!
I'm afraid that Twilio doesn't support SIP MESSAGE method. According to this doc http://www.twilio.com/docs/sip and links in it, you can do only voice calls.
I want to know that either twilio support two way SMS service i.e it is bidirectional or not. If yes, please let me know how can I implement it for two way sms service.
In case if it not supported let me know about some other SMS gateway that support this functionality.
Thanks.
Twilio employee here.
Short answer is: yes.
The longer answer: Outbound (From Twilio to a phone number) can be done with the Twilio REST API and we can send SMS to over 200 countries worldwide.
Inbound (From a cell phone to your web application via Twilio) can be done by purchasing a Twilio phone number and setting up the Request URL to make an HTTP POST request to your webserver like so:
This will have information about the inbound SMS message, which you can then reply to with some TwiML or manipulate the information in your code.
I am new to Twilio API.I have trial account and I have sent Message using Twilio Rest API successfully and received message from number i.e Message as:DM-062107 and body :- Sent from your Twilio trial Account-Hello.
Now I can't able to reply this message.can any one help me to how I can reply to this and how I know that message is received.
I have contacted to Twilio technical support for same problem and get the response. Check the reason why reply option is not enabled:
Although Twilio supports sending outbound messages internationally using toll-free numbers, your Indian number may not support sending inbound messages to US toll-free numbers. I will recommend checking with your mobile carrier to see if sending messages to US toll-free numbers is supported. If not, I will recommend using a regular US number instead of a US toll-free number and kindly retest.
Twilio Evangelist here.
So, to reply to message you just send a normal SMS from your phone to the number. The way Twilio handles this is using a 'webhook'.
If you log into your Twilio account, click on the 'Number' tab, you'll see you have a telephone number there (the same one you sent an SMS with):
Once you've clicked on the number, you'll see a screen with some other details:
Here you can configure your webhook. This is basically a URL that Twilio will send your message to. So if you configure that to point to the URL of some application you have written, you'll receive an HTTP Post or Get request (you can configure which) with the contents of the message, who it is from, etc.
You can then reply to this message with Twiml, which is just XML:
<Response>
<Message>
This is the message that is sent in reply!
</Message>
</Response>
And using this you can build up a conversation!
There are a lot of details on Twilio's website with quick starts etc. There is even a video that talks it through.
Hope this helps.
I would like to send a text message survey (eg. "How happy were you with X service? Reply 1 for satisified, Reply 2 for not satisfied") to multiple recipients. From the responses, I would like to create a report on the recipients that responded 1 vs the ones that responded 2. What is the best way to do this with the Twilio API? Does my app need to store the results from my incoming SMS message or does Twilio store these so I can query the results? If the former is the case and TwiML is involved, how do I parse the response and store the result? Thanks!
** Disclaimer: Twilio evangelist here **
Chirag:
So it sounds like you have two requirements here:
Use Twilio to send outbound text messages to different recipients
Capture a users reply to that message
For the first requirement, you can start by going to Twilio.com and signing up for a new account. Its free to start and we give you a Twilio phone number you can use to start to build your app. Once you have the Twilio phone number, you can use the REST API to start sending outbound text messages from that Twilio phone number. We have a quickstart that shows you how to do this:
http://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/php/sms/sending-via-rest
Note that this link goes to the PHP sample, but you can use the drop down at the top of the page to pick from other stacks like .NET, Java, Python or Ruby.
Once you've sent an outbound message you need to capture the replies to that message (your second requirement). Twilio uses something called a webhook to notify you about incoming SMS messages.
A webhook is basically a URL exposed by your application and associated with your Twilio phone number. You can configure the URL associated with your phone number in the Twilio dashboard.
Each time we receive an incoming SMS message on your Twilio phone number, we will make an HTTP request to that URL. As part of that HTTP request we send along metadata about the inbound message like the phone number that the message was sent from and the Body of the message. The full list of parameters we send is here:
http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/sms/twilio_request
Now your app can pull those parameters out of the request and do whatever it wants with them. Since we already are sending the body of the message as we receive it, Tims suggestion of tracking the responses based on the From parameter and storing the message body in your own database is a good suggestion.
This quickstart shows receving an incoming text message, grabbing the From parameter and then responding by sending back from TwiML:
http://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/php/sms/replying-to-sms-messages
In your case, if you don't want to reply to the incoming message, just omit the TwiML response.
Hope the helps. Lets me know if you need more info.
Devin
Track the responses using the From parameter (and using Body to identify the selection). Yes, Twilio stores those messages, and you could query the API - but it's likely better to just store it in your own database.