Using Twilio API, send each Santa their Santee's name directly to their phone. Supports no-match 1-way and 2-way.
['Chris', 'Johnny']
Chris, the Santa, will not be given Johnny as their Santee. However, Johnny as a Santa can get Chris as a Santee. The purpose of this is to not get a repeat of a previous year(s) match.
['Jordan', 'Johnny']
Jordan and Johnny are brothers, will not be given each other at all.
SMS Python QuickStart https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/quickstart/python
Register on Twilio, add funds to the wallet. Purchase a phone number, create Programmable SMS project. Account SID and Auth Token are required for this to function along with the phone number.
Update config.yml with participants, 1-way and 2-way blocks. Edit santa.py with the new new Account SID and auth_token and twilio_number. Line 114 has the SMS message, feel free to customize as you find fit.
Put random name in config.yml >> DONT-REPEAT and DONT-PAIR if you do not want to have any blocks. i.e. - NoName
python3 santa.py --send OR python santa.py --send to actually send out the SMS
python3 santa.py OR python santa.py to test it locally and NOT send out the SMS
This code was derived from https://github.com/underbluewaters/secret-santa and modified to work with SMS (Twilio) and added the functionality of 1-way block.