A module for using the Twilio REST API and generating valid TwiML. Click here to read the full documentation.
Install from PyPi using pip, a package manager for Python.
$ pip install twilio
Don't have pip installed? Try installing it, by running this from the command line:
$ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python
Or, you can download the source code
(ZIP) for twilio-python, and then run:
$ python setup.py install
You may need to run the above commands with sudo.
Getting started with the Twilio API couldn't be easier. Create a
TwilioRestClient and you're ready to go.
The TwilioRestClient needs your Twilio credentials. You can either pass these
directly to the constructor (see the code below) or via environment variables.
from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient account = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" token = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" client = TwilioRestClient(account, token)
Alternately, a TwilioRestClient constructor without these parameters will
look for TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN variables inside the
current environment.
We suggest storing your credentials as environment variables. Why? You'll never have to worry about committing your credentials and accidentally posting them somewhere public.
from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient client = TwilioRestClient()
from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient account = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" token = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" client = TwilioRestClient(account, token) call = client.calls.create(to="9991231234", from_="9991231234", url="http://twimlets.com/holdmusic?Bucket=com.twilio.music.ambient") print call.sid
from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient account = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" token = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" client = TwilioRestClient(account, token) message = client.sms.messages.create(to="+12316851234", from_="+15555555555", body="Hello there!")
To control phone calls, your application needs to output
TwiML. Use twilio.twiml.Response to easily create such responses.
from twilio import twiml r = twiml.Response() r.say("Welcome to twilio!") print str(r)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Response><Say>Welcome to twilio!</Say></Response>
The full power of the Twilio API is at your fingertips. The full documentation explains all the awesome features available to use.