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lu5er
lu5er

Reputation: 3564

How to get the incoming caller's phone number in Twilio Flask App?

I want to print/get the incoming caller number in Twilio Flask app. I was referring to the twilio-ivr-phone-tree for this. I tried print(request.args) in the welcome function i.e the first method which is invoked when I receive an incoming call. But it prints an empty ImmutableMultiDict([]).

Am I missing something? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 491

Answers (2)

rbp
rbp

Reputation: 1898

The incoming call request information can be obtained in a Flask app using request.values

these are they keys of the diction returned: atts = ('AccountSid', 'ApiVersion', 'CallSid', 'CallStatus', 'Called', 'CalledCity', 'CalledCountry', 'CalledState', 'CalledZip', 'Caller', 'CallerCity', 'CallerCountry', 'CallerState', 'CallerZip', 'Direction', 'From', 'FromCity', 'FromCountry', 'FromState', 'FromZip', 'To', 'ToCity', 'ToCountry', 'ToState', 'ToZip')

Upvotes: 1

lu5er
lu5er

Reputation: 3564

The main problem is the Twilio request has a form content type and the raw data will be consumed leading it to appear empty as described in this answer.

However request.get_data() can print the whole POST and you can easily find that the key From holds the caller's phone number.

So, to access it you need request.form['From'] and it fetches the caller's number to the local environment.

Upvotes: 0

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