/TwillioTextBot

A quick way to send mass text messages. Provided you have a premium Twillio account.

Primary LanguagePython

TwillioTextBot

Description

  • This project was made to send text messages very easily if given a simple list of phone numbers using Twillio

Install & Run

  • First you must have a Twillio premium account in order to send messages to phone numbers other than yours.
  • Run pip install -r requirements.txt on the command line in the repo folder to install
    • twillio - a python helper library
    • emoji - a quick way of putting emojis in text. Adds flare to message sending
  • Insert your list of phone numbers into the get_phone_numbers() function as a comma seperate string array
    • TODO: make this a seperate file that can be interpreted more easily
  • Place your account info in a the top
    • ACCOUNT_SID - holds your account sid from the twillio dashboard
    • AUTH_TOKEN - holds your private auth key for from the twillio dashboard
    • SENDER_PHONE_NUMBER - holds the phone number you "rented" from twillio
  • Run the program.
  • Note: long lists of 200+ numbers may take several minutes to send all

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