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Proxy Public Beta is not available to new customers

Proxy Public Beta is currently closed for new customers. Please consider using Twilio Conversations and Programmable Voice directly if you are building your masking application.

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Public Beta for customers already using Proxy

Twilio's Proxy API is currently available as a Public Beta product. Some features are not yet implemented and others may be changed before the product is declared as Generally Available.

Public Beta products are not covered by a Twilio SLA.

We can send text messages through the Proxy API by creating a Message Interaction on a Participant. The referenced Participant will receive the message from their allocated proxy number on the appropriate channel.

Note: Only POST (create) is available on Message Interactions. To query past messages you've created with this resource, query the Interaction resource.

MessageInteraction Properties

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

sidSID<KI>

Optional

The unique string that we created to identify the MessageInteraction resource.

Pattern: ^KI[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

sessionSidSID<KC>

Optional

The SID of the parent Session resource.

Pattern: ^KC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

serviceSidSID<KS>

Optional

The SID of the parent Service resource.

Pattern: ^KS[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

accountSidSID<AC>

Optional

The SID of the Account that created the MessageInteraction resource.

Pattern: ^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

datastring

Optional

PII MTL: 30 days

A JSON string that includes the message body sent to the participant. (e.g. {"body": "hello"})

typeenum<string>

Optional

The Type of Message Interaction. This value is always message.

Possible values:

messagevoiceunknown

participantSidSID<KP>

Optional

The SID of the Participant resource.

Pattern: ^KP[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

inboundParticipantSidSID<KP>

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

Pattern: ^KP[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

inboundResourceSidSID

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z]{2}[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

inboundResourceStatusenum<string>

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

Possible values:

acceptedansweredbusycanceledcompleteddeleteddelivereddelivery-unknownfailedin-progress

inboundResourceTypestring

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

inboundResourceUrlstring<uri>

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

outboundParticipantSidSID<KP>

Optional

The SID of the outbound Participant resource.

Pattern: ^KP[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

outboundResourceSidSID

Optional

The SID of the outbound Message resource.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z]{2}[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

outboundResourceStatusenum<string>

Optional

Always empty for created Message Interactions.

Possible values:

acceptedansweredbusycanceledcompleteddeleteddelivereddelivery-unknownfailedin-progress

outboundResourceTypestring

Optional

The outbound resource type. This value is always Message.

outboundResourceUrlstring<uri>

Optional

The URL of the Twilio message resource.

dateCreatedstring<date-time>

Optional

The ISO 8601 date and time in GMT when the resource was created.

dateUpdatedstring<date-time>

Optional

The ISO 8601 date and time in GMT when the resource was last updated.

urlstring<uri>

Optional

The absolute URL of the MessageInteraction resource.

Create a MessageInteraction resource

POST https://proxy.twilio.com/v1/Services/{ServiceSid}/Sessions/{SessionSid}/Participants/{ParticipantSid}/MessageInteractions

Path parameters

Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescription

serviceSidSID<KS>

required

The SID of the parent Service resource.

Pattern: ^KS[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

sessionSidSID<KC>

required

The SID of the parent Session resource.

Pattern: ^KC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

participantSidSID<KP>

required

The SID of the Participant resource.

Pattern: ^KP[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

Request body parameters

Encoding type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

bodystring

required if MediaUrl is not passed

The message to send to the participant

mediaUrlarray[string<uri>]

required if Body is not passed

Reserved. Not currently supported.

Create a MessageInteraction

1// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
2const twilio = require("twilio"); // Or, for ESM: import twilio from "twilio";
3
4// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
5// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
6const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
7const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
8const client = twilio(accountSid, authToken);
9
10async function createMessageInteraction() {
11  const messageInteraction = await client.proxy.v1
12    .services("KSaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
13    .sessions("KCaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
14    .participants("KPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
15    .messageInteractions.create({
16      body: "This will be the body of the new message!",
17    });
18
19  console.log(messageInteraction.sid);
20}
21
22createMessageInteraction();

Response

Note: This shows the raw API response from Twilio. Responses from SDKs (Java, Python, etc.) may look a little different.

1{
2  "service_sid": "KSaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
3  "data": "{\"body\":\"some message\"}",
4  "date_created": "2015-07-30T20:00:00Z",
5  "date_updated": "2015-07-30T20:00:00Z",
6  "participant_sid": "KPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
7  "inbound_participant_sid": null,
8  "inbound_resource_sid": null,
9  "inbound_resource_status": null,
10  "inbound_resource_type": null,
11  "inbound_resource_url": null,
12  "outbound_participant_sid": "KPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
13  "outbound_resource_sid": "SMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
14  "outbound_resource_status": "sent",
15  "outbound_resource_type": "Message",
16  "outbound_resource_url": null,
17  "sid": "KIaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
18  "type": "message",
19  "url": "https://proxy.twilio.com/v1/Services/KSaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Sessions/KCaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Participants/KPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/MessageInteractions/KIaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
20  "account_sid": "ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
21  "session_sid": "KCaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
22}