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Rocky Racoon
Rocky Racoon

Reputation: 75

How can I embed Twilio's sms service in an html file?

All I found was with php and node.js (which is based on js, so it should be fine), but I got across this library: 

<script type="text/javascript"
src="//media.twiliocdn.com/sdk/js/client/v1.4/twilio.min.js"></script>

What is the relavant JS code to make a "send sms" request? This is the php I found:

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/twilio-php-master/Twilio/autoload.php';
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
$client = new Client($sid, $token);
$client->messages->create(
 '+15558675309', // number to send to
 array(
 'from' => '+15017250604', // your Twilio number
 'body' => "There’s something strange in my neighborhood. I don’t know who to call. Send help!"
 )
);

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1026

Answers (1)

philnash
philnash

Reputation: 73055

Twilio developer evangelist here.

We don't recommend that you use the Twilio REST API for sending SMS messages within a public HTML page. If you do so, you will expose your account credentials publicly and a malicious attacker could steal them and send messages or phone calls on your behalf, using up your credit and potentially spamming people.

The JavaScript library you found there is for you to use to make phone calls from within the browser using WebRTC. This is built to not leak your credentials as you need to generate a token server side that can be used to authenticate users.

I recommend you check out the SMS quick start guides in a language of your choice to see how you can write server side code to send messages.

Upvotes: 2

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