Python Web Application to Handle SMS messages

Inspiration

• MLH: Global Hack Week challenge

What it does

• Handles SMS messages sent through Twilio Dev Phone and replies back with the sender's number and their message

How we built it

• Used Flask to build a web application and ngrok to make the application visible from the web
• Added an endpoint to your web application to handle Twilio webhooks and used it to handle a webhook containing an SMS message.
• Sent the SMS from the Dev Phone.
• Wrote TwiML to respond to a text message, then returned that TwiML in response to a webhook.

Challenges we ran into

• Understanding endpoints and syntax

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Sending a message and getting a reply!!

What we learned

• Python, Twilio, ngrok, Flask, webhooks, endpoints

Built With

• flask
• ngrok
• pip
• python
• twilio