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Matt Winer
Matt Winer

Reputation: 535

Twilio webhooks with dynamic IP - Can I poll?

We have a situation where our server is located on a mobile trailer using AT&T broadband. AT&T is double NAT'd so there is no way for me to open any ports and allow inbound traffic in.

(We are looking into static IPs but could be a long time coming.)

Is it possible to make a call to twilio to say "give me any new messages from this date" Or is it all based on the webhooks?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 120

Answers (2)

user11553043
user11553043

Reputation:

Is this for SMS? You ordinarily do not need a server to make HTTP requests to a REST API. I can't find it after a cursory look in their docs, but what you are looking for is a page that lists all the HTTP endpoints and their cognate request method. From there, use a library like requests or http.client or urllib to send the requests.

Edit: this post is geared for the Pythonistas

Upvotes: 0

Devin Rader
Devin Rader

Reputation: 10366

Twilio evangelist here.

Yes! You can use the REST API with date filters to get a list of messages. This is what that would look like in Node:

client.messages
  .list({
     dateSentBefore: new Date(Date.UTC(2019, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0)),
     dateSentAfter: new Date(Date.UTC(2019, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0)),
     limit: 20
   })
  .then(messages => messages.forEach(m => console.log(m.sid)));

You can find a more complete Node sample plus samples in other languages in our docs.

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 2

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