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Champa
Champa

Reputation: 615

twilio error 'username required'

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e";
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);
router.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
router.use(bodyParser.json());

router.post('/', function(req, res) {
    console.log('this is the req', req.body);
    client.messages.creat({
        to:'+19522209630',
        from:'+17633249718',
        body:'hello World'
    }, function(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('err', err);
            console.log('data', data);
        }
    });//en d of sendMessage
    res.send(200);
});

module.exports = router;
/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/rest/Twilio.js:101
    throw new Error('username is required');
    ^

Error: username is required
    at new Twilio (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/rest/Twilio.js:101:11)
    at initializer (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/index.js:8:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/routes/sendMessage.js:6:31)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/server.js:10:19)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node server.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/.npm/_logs/2017-07-11T15_02_02_750Z-debug.log

I am getting and error that says username is required. I am trying to use twilio. I followed a youtube video and i have it like he does. Any suggestions on how to fix this? P.S The index file is the terminal error message

Upvotes: 18

Views: 32929

Answers (12)

mathems32
mathems32

Reputation: 365

Definitely one of the most annoying and time consuming errors, but I finally overcame it, and none of the answers I read here made a difference.

To resolve, I had to set the environmental values programatically. Creating the .env file and adding the values was not good enough.

echo "export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID='ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'" > .env
echo "export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN='your_auth_token'" >> .env
source .env

Substitute your real values and then copy/paste into the terminal within the same directory you want the .env file to be in. Careful, because after doing this the contents of my existing .env file were deleted and replaced by the two values.

And lastly, the .env file doesn't need to be in the root of your project. In my case, the relevant server operates in the directory where Node.js node_modules are ... In that same directory goes the .env file.

Largely understood from this source.

Upvotes: 0

harukim
harukim

Reputation: 1

if you use firebase, you can move '.env' file to firebase root folder, than it is okay.

Upvotes: -1

Basudev Bharat Bhushan
Basudev Bharat Bhushan

Reputation: 21

In my case, everything was correct except I was using the account_sid and auth_token of test credential instead of Live credential.

Upvotes: 0

Shanky
Shanky

Reputation: 276

Save these into a .env file at your root of your folder

TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e"
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = "AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317"

Then install npm install dotenv --save

After that you can use these environment variables in your file like this:

require('dotenv');
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);```

Upvotes: 24

Harshvardhan Shete
Harshvardhan Shete

Reputation: 1

The Silly mistake which I made was, I used "SMS_SID: YourSID", It must be "SMS_SID = YourSID".

Upvotes: 0

Brennen
Brennen

Reputation: 1

I figured out the issue that I was having with this. When starting up the server, make sure that you are in the directory that contains the .env file.

Upvotes: 0

Sahil Rajpal
Sahil Rajpal

Reputation: 540

Note -: This is not at all a good way but just a workaround. I will edit the answer as soon I will get the right way. This is just a trick which worked in my case.

const client = require('twilio')(<YOUR_ACCOUNT_SID>, <YOUR_ACCOUNT_KEY>);

basically use the keys directly instead of referencing through any variable.

Upvotes: 2

Akolade Adesanmi
Akolade Adesanmi

Reputation: 1250

I was working with a colleague when we encounter the same error. I tried almost all the solutions but didn't work for me (most of the solutions here are the same in a sense).

How we resolve this was amazing: how?

When you are using a file called .env for your environment variables, you need to double checks where you created this file

  • .env file must be created in your root directory. That means must be inside your project folder not inside sub-folder that is inside your project.
  • when you are to use it, make sure you reference the right variable. This mistake is related to this question. such as
// index.js
// this wrong, notice process.env.AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317 in client variable
TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e";
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);

this is correct process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID

// .env
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317

Twilio Documentation

Interested in the mistake we made, it's the wrong placement of .env file.

Upvotes: 1

Aaron Billings
Aaron Billings

Reputation: 1641

I had this same issue as well. What fixed it for me is doing

  • npm install dotenv
  • require('dotenv').config()

then I added my

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=***

TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=***

full code:

require('dotenv').config();

const accountSid = process.env.ACCOUNT_SID;
const authToken = process.env.AUTH_TOKEN;
const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);

client.calls
  .create({
    url: 'http://demo.twilio.com/docs/voice.xml',
    to: process.env.CELL_PHONE,
    from: process.env.TWIL_NUM,
  })
  .then(call => console.log(call.sid))
  .catch(err => console.log(err));

Upvotes: 9

thehme
thehme

Reputation: 2896

I encountered this issue today and was getting message Error: username is required when running my twilio test. Since I am using dotenv, I have a .env file with my environment variables, and this is where I made a mistake. We have another app with the SID and TOKEN variables, so I copied them and left in the export keyword, i.e. export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=..., but if using dotenv, the export keyword is not needed. I removed export and re-run my test script and it all worked, e.g.

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=***
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=***

Upvotes: 1

Champa
Champa

Reputation: 615

var TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e";
var TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = "AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317";
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);

@philnash i changed it and fixed the creat typo but the terminal is still saying 'username is required'

Upvotes: 3

philnash
philnash

Reputation: 73075

Twilio developer evangelist here.

Aside from the typo in creat that Champa has pointed out in the comments, I think I know where you're going wrong. Your code currently has:

var client = require('twilio')(process.env.AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);

I am guessing that it should have something like process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID.

The account sid is effectively the username for accessing the API, which is why the error message says that.

Let me know if that helps at all.

Upvotes: 0

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