Reputation: 1
hope you are doing it right these days.
To summarize my problem, I think this is not working becuase I am using a free Twilio account instead of a paid one. But that's just my beginner theory. Now, the issue:
I have tried an official Twilio tutorial (https://www.twilio.com/blog/automating-ngrok-python-twilio-applications-pyngrok, I shared the link in case someone finds it interesting or needs it), which allows us to automate SMS webhook (sms_url) configuration by using Client (twilio) and pyngrok (ngrok).
def start_ngrok():
from twilio.rest import Client
from pyngrok import ngrok
url = ngrok.connect(5000)
print(' * Tunnel URL:', url)
client = Client()
client.incoming_phone_numbers.list(
phone_number=os.environ.get('TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER'))[0].update(
sms_url=url + '/bot')
I can't explain all the things that I tried in the last 4 days, with no success. I keep getting the same error:
client.incoming_phone_numbers.list(phone_number=os.environ.get('TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER'))[0].update(sms_url=url + '/bot')
IndexError: list index out of range
Something is not working with the list, it comes empty, although environment variables are working properly. I will work with just one phone_number, so there no need for list, indeed, so I started to change that line to avoid different errors and ended up with this:
def start_ngrok():
from twilio.rest import Client
from pyngrok import ngrok
url = ngrok.connect(5000)
print(' * Tunnel URL:', url)
client = Client()
client.incoming_phone_numbers("my_number").update(sms_url=str(url) + '/bot')
Then I got the final error that I can't solve by my self:
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twilio/rest/api/v2010/account/incoming_phone_number/__init__.py", line 442, in update
payload = self._version.update(method='POST', uri=self._uri, data=data, )
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twilio/base/version.py", line 106, in update
raise self.exception(method, uri, response, 'Unable to update record')
twilio.base.exceptions.TwilioRestException:
HTTP Error Your request was:
POST /Accounts/my_account_SID/IncomingPhoneNumbers/+my_number.json
Twilio returned the following information:
Unable to update record: The requested resource /2010-04-01/Accounts/my_account_SID/IncomingPhoneNumbers/+my_number.json was not found
More information may be available here:
https://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/20404
I tried all different phone numbers combinations/formats: nothing works.
Thanks for your time reading all this!
Upvotes: 0
Views: 945
Reputation: 10781
Looks like something changed since the blog was written or there was a mistake.
Try the below:
.public_url
to the url object. Also allowed a GET
to /bot for testing.from dotenv import load_dotenv
from flask import Flask, request
from twilio.twiml.messaging_response import MessagingResponse
load_dotenv()
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/bot', methods=['POST','GET'])
def bot():
user = request.values.get('From', '')
resp = MessagingResponse()
resp.message(f'Hello, {user}, thank you for your message!')
return str(resp)
def start_ngrok():
from twilio.rest import Client
from pyngrok import ngrok
url = ngrok.connect(5000)
print('This is',url)
print(' * Tunnel URL:', url)
client = Client()
client.incoming_phone_numbers.list(
phone_number=os.environ.get('TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER'))[0].update(
sms_url=url.public_url + '/bot')
if __name__ == '__main__':
if os.environ.get('WERKZEUG_RUN_MAIN') != 'true':
start_ngrok()
app.run(debug=True)
Upvotes: 0