Sending an SMS to a Cellphone using Django
I am building an application, where I have this little survey module, which sends out a simple sms to the phone number I give and has to collect the response(if the user fires it) and show it to me. I am using to django build my project. I have tried django-sms google code project, but I couldn't post messages back from my mobile to my server. I have browsed through many tutorials on sms-gateways/carriers. But I am lost. Can anyone help me in suggesting a tutorial about sending sms from my application(django) to any cellphone? And regarding sending sms to cellphone, would it cost me(just as how i send sms from one cellphone to another)?
Answer
Hi my name is Jarod and I work for Twilio.com so I am a little biased. But with that said, it is super easy to send an SMS from your Python web application using the Twilio Rest Api. Here is a simple example:
# Download the Python helper library from twilio.com/docs/python/install
from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient
# Your Account Sid and Auth Token from twilio.com/user/account
account_sid = "{{ account_sid }}"
auth_token = "{{ auth_token }}"
client = TwilioRestClient(account_sid, auth_token)
message = client.messages.create(
body="Jenny please?! I love you <3",
to="+15558675309",
from_="+14158141829",
media_url="http://www.example.com/hearts.png")
print message.sid