Twilio Messaging API Demo

Send text messages programmatically with Twilio SMS API. Extract message history to JSON.

Update API Credentials:

# setup Twilio account
# update *_secret.toml file to include your API credentials and phone number
cp './config/twilio_sms_example.toml' './config/twilio_sms_secret.toml'

within './config/*_secret.toml':
[twilio.LIVE]
    account_sid = "123456789abcdefg"   # <-- UPDATE
    auth_token = "abcdefg123456789"

[twilio.digits]
  to_number = "+1222333444"    # <-- UPDATE
  from_number = "+1222333444"

Dependency Setup:

• Poetry Commands

# update poetry
poetry --version
poetry self update

# use latest python version for venv
pyenv install --list | grep " 3.12"
pyenv install 3.12.0
pyenv local 3.12.0

# update poetry settings
poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true
poetry config experimental.new-installer false
poetry config --list

# create venv in project
poetry check
poetry lock

# upgrade pip within venv
poetry run python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# setup pre-commit
poetry run pre-commit autoupdate
poetry run pre-commit install

Run Demo:

poetry run python ./src/twilio_sms_api/twilio_rest_demo.py

Processing Steps:

1. Send test SMS message with random text (+emoji strings) to validated 'to_number'
2. Extract prior test message by string identifier (SID)
3. Redact message body of test message
4. Validate redaction results
5. Delete prior test message
6. Extract entire message history for account

Resources:

• Twilio SIDs
• Twilio API: Messaging
• GitHub: twilio-python