By default, examples from this module assumes the user has a Twillio account. To run the example you will need to provide your accountSid
and authToken
.
The connector support the following aspects of the Twilio REST API:
In your LoopBack project:
$ npm install --save loopback-connector-twilio
To use the connector, define the datasource using the connector in your datasources.json
file:
"twilio": {
"name": "twilio",
"connector": "loopback-connector-twilio",
"accountSid": "YOUR_TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID",
"authToken": "YOUR_TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"
}
Next, attach the created datasource to a model in the model-config.json
file:
"Twilio": {
"dataSource": "twilio",
"public": true
}
Now, using the created model, you can send an SMS or make a call using the send
method of the model:
Twilio.send(options, callback);
Note: options
is defined by the JSON objects in the next two sections:
{
type: 'sms',
to: 'TARGET_PHONE_NUMBER',
from: 'YOUR_TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER',
body: 'TEXT_MESSAGE'
}
{
type: 'call',
to: 'TARGET_PHONE_NUMBER',
from: 'YOUR_TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER',
url: 'URL_TO_TwiMIL_FILE'
}
{
type: 'email',
to: 'TARGET_EMAIL',
from: 'YOUR_EMAIL',
subject: 'EMAIL SUBJECT',
text: 'EMAIL BODY AS PLAIN TEXT',
html: 'EMAIL BODY AS HTML'
}
To run the example in the /example/example.js
directory, you must set the following values in the file:
var SID = 'YOUR_TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID';
var TOKEN = 'YOUR_TWILIO_ACCOUNT_TOKEN';
var SGAPIKEY = 'YOUR_TWILIO_SENDGRIO_API_KEY';
var TO = 'YOUR_TWILIO_TELEPHONE_NUMBER';
var FROM = 'TARGET_PHONE_NUMBER';
Next, from the from the /loopback-connector-twilio/
directory, install the loopback
module using the following command:
$ npm install loopback
Finally, run the example app using the following command from the /loopback-connector-twilio/
directory:
$ node ./example/example.js
NOTE: The url
property points to an XML file that specifies a TwiMIL command.
2.0.0
MIT