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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
- mahmud 17y agoNote to self: next time you're debugging a twilio script, use their free test accounts. The only thing worse than 2 days of debugging is knowing you have been bleeding cash as well. I had a broken asterisk script rape-dial my toll-free twilio account :-( Having said that, the service is PERFECT. They nailed every aspect of it down.
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- oomkiller 17y agoI like to use Flowroute and write my apps with FreeSWITCH. It allows you to write quite advanced applications that do lots of cool, geeky, useful things.
- domodomo 17y agoWow, never heard of Twilio before. Good to know something like this exists. Thank you.
- jrockway 17y agoNice. Sometimes I am tempted to reply to the voicemail transcriptions I get from Google Voice, in the hopes that a robotic voice will call the person back and read my message.
- dmor 17y agoHa! That would be funny, you could do that with Twilio if you really wanted to.
- mahmud 17y agoIf you're doing this in Common Lisp, cl-who generates perfect XML to feed to twilio :-) I might have a cheesy, one-page cl-twilio package lying around actually :-)
- jrockway 17y agoSomewhat off-topic now... but I am not a big fan of cl-who; I prefer cxml with the cxml-stp DOM. I started porting my Perl sugar layer over the XML DOM to CL: http://github.com/jrockway/cl-template-refine http://github.com/jrockway/cl-template-refine I think I got distracted by something and didn't finish it, though. ;)
- tlrobinson 17y agoGreat way to get geeks to try your service. (One problem: my MacPorts Perl installation didn't come with URI::Escape. Switching to /usr/bin/perl fixed it)
- jhickner 17y agomine didn't either, but you can just: cpan[1]> install URI::Escape and you're done.