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Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's. Twilio consistently provides excell
by chimeracoder 12y ago
Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's.
Twilio consistently provides excellent documentation and developer support, whereas Google's results on that front are very mixed (varies widely by product).
- aioprisan 12y agoThat's a bit of a stretch. You wouldn't get better results than using Google's APIs, if anything you introduced another failure point and authentication credentials that you need to track and update regularly.
- nkozyra 12y agoYou don't need to use Google at all. This would be a 20-minute project using the HN API. Twilio is a whole extra level of cruft. Any machine can send an email, so unless you want a voice call to tell you someone mentioned you on HN it makes absolutely no sense.
- EGreg 12y agoThe new HN API? Which one do you mean? Please post the link.