arjunmadan/WPcatfacts

SMS-based interface for English Wikipedia

WPcatfacts

App that leverages the Bandwidth catapult API to give you succint information about any topic over SMS. It relies predominantly on Wikipedia, so basically it's a wikipedia interface for when you don't have 3G.

Demos uses of the:

• Catapult Node SDK
• Creating Application
• Searching for Phone Number
• Ordering Phone Number
• Sending MMS
• Sending SMS

Prerequisites

• Configured Machine with Ngrok/Port Forwarding -OR- Heroku Account
  • Ngrok
  • Heroku
• Catapult Account
• Node 4.2+

Deploy To PaaS

Env Variables Required To Run

• CATAPULT_USER_ID
• CATAPULT_API_TOKEN
• CATAPULT_API_SECRET

Once deployed, visit the site to view phone number!

How it works?

WPcatfacts has a single callback /msgcallback that handles inbound text messages

Incoming Messages

What to try

• cat
• cat picture
• cat fact
• cat topics
• cat (topic)
• Raleigh
• North Carolina picture

You can get facts about things that aren't cats but then again why would you.