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pkliang
pkliang

Reputation: 979

Is it possible to dynamically set the content of the Twilio phone call

we are developing a mobile (iOS/Android) application through which the user can send an automatic Twilio phone call (using Parse Cloud Code) to a number of her/his choice. Is it possible to dynamically set the content of the phone call from the client (like one can do with SMS’s by passing a string as a variable)? From the examples in the Parse/Twilio documentation it seems that this is not the case and one can only set in advance different texts at different URL’s and choose between them. Is it so?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 437

Answers (1)

philnash
philnash

Reputation: 73027

Twilio developer evangelist here.

You can dynamically set phone call content from a single URL by adding URL parameters to the URL you set for the phone call. So, if, for example, you created a call like so:

client.makeCall({
  to: NUMBER,
  from: YOUR_TWILIO_NUMBER,
  url: 'http://example.com/call/?name=Phil'
}, function(err, responseData) {
  // call is made
});

Then you can use the name parameter in the callback to alter the response. Here's an example route in express:

app.post('/call', function(req, res) {
  responseText = "Hello " + req.query.name;
  res.send("<Response><Say>" + responseText + "</Say></Response>");
});

I hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

Upvotes: 4

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