Receiving SMS messages with Twilio

Inspiration

• MLH: Global Hack Week challenge

What it does

• Uses webhooks to handle SMS messages and print the number and message to the console

How we built it

• Added an endpoint to the web application to handle Twilio webhooks
• Handle a webhook containing an SMS message
• Send an SMS from the Dev Phone

Challenges we ran into

• Handling errors with return statements
• Outdated libraries

Accomplishments that we're proud of & what I learned

• I learned so much about Twilio and ngrok!

What's next for Receiving SMS messages with Twilio

• Reply to the SMS message with the web application

Built With

• ngrok
• python
• twilio
• zsh