Looking to build a realtime chat app? Building this from scratch requires thinking about lots of concerns at once. How should you model your users? What about different channels and different access levels? How about showing which users are online and when they start typing a message? There’s these questions and a lot more to answer when building a quality chat app. That’s where Twilio Programmable Chat comes… Read More
Have you ever needed to programmatically download an image from an MMS message sent to your Twilio number? Well here’s all the code you need to do this using Python and Flask:
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import requests from flask import Flask, request, redirect from twilio.twiml.messaging_response import MessagingResponse DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY = '/Path/to/your/code/directory' app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/sms", methods=['GET', 'POST']) def sms_reply(): """Respond to incoming with a simple text message.""" resp = MessagingResponse() if request.values['NumMedia'] != '0': # Use the message SID as a filename. filename = request.values['MessageSid'] '.png' with open('{}/{}'.format(DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY, filename), 'wb') as f: image_url = request.values['MediaUrl0'] f.write(requests.get(image_url).content) resp.message("Thanks for the image!") else: resp.message("Try sending a picture message.") return str(resp) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(debug=True) |
To run the above code, you’ll need to have the Twilio Python helper library installed, as well as the Flask framework. Don’t forget to replace the value of the DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY variable with a path to… Read More
As a developer, I’ve always wanted to include chat capabilities in the applications I’ve created. Coding applications is fun but I’ve been stumped by the idea of creating the complex infrastructure needed to support real-time chat. Fortunately, I found that Twilio makes it easy to include chat capabilities in just about any application. In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a chat application using Python and the Django… Read More
Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool. All of the members of your team can see everything from which sources your web traffic comes from to what demographics frequent your site. There’s just one problem: Nobody is willing to go to the Google Analytics site and look! If these features aren’t used they may as well not exist. So, to give teammates easier access you can… Read More
As a dad of 2 young kids, a non-trivial portion of my day is devoted to poop. Lots and lots of poop. When my oldest began potty training, they would wake up in the middle of the night needing to use the bathroom. And while toddlers’ lungs make a great alarm, we needed to find a solution that wouldn’t disturb the younger one sleeping 10 feet away…. Read More
We’ve all been there – you just need to send an email from your application. Maybe it’s password resets or a product notification. You’re probably reading this because you’ve hit that point. Whatever your use case, this post will walk through how to send an email in code using a plain ol’ Gmail account. I’ll also show you how to fix some common errors you’ll see… Read More
In this article you will learn how to control an NEC display via RS232 or UTP connection with the official nec-pd-sdk Python package from NEC. Reasons for controlling NEC displays programmatically vary from automatic turning them on and off, scheduling, monitoring, and more. I became interested in controlling NEC displays programmatically when I was building a virtual waterfall system and had issues with one of the displays. I needed… Read More
What would you do if you could have a dedicated phone number for anything you wanted? This blog post will show you how to create a phone number that hides your private phone number and acts as an intermediary between your phone number and other phone numbers. The use cases are many: separate work and private numbers international numbers while traveling (without buying a local sim)… Read More
One of my all-time favorite Facebook groups is “DogSpotting.” For those of you unfamiliar with this revolutionary group, it’s a Facebook group dedicated to posting pictures of random dogs you see as you go along your regular day. There are tons of “spotting” rules, but any way you slice it, this group is awesome. Using this model for inspiration, I built a Slack bot for a… Read More