Procedures

Automation procedures in the Twilio book.

The following documentation is for Twilio v2.0.1 (BDK).

Ensure that you have installed or connected the Twilio book and created a new playground before using these automation procedures.

to read some (SMS messages)

FILTER - CAPABLE

Get SMS messages from the Twilio API.

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
SMS messages	A list of SMS messages that matches the specified filtering criteria	twilio sms message

Examples

Retrieve SMS messages filtered by sender and recipient numbers

read some sms messages whose sender number is "[phone]" and whose recipient number is "[phone]"

Retrieve SMS messages filtered by the date in which they were sent

convert "2022-03-01T15:00:00Z" to a datetime
use the above as the message date
read some sms messages whose date sent is the message date

Retrieve SMS messages that were sent in the specified time period

convert "2022-03-01T15:00:00Z" to a datetime
use the above as the start date
convert "2022-03-03T15:00:00Z" to a datetime
use the above as the end date
read some sms messages whose date sent is after the start date and whose date sent is before the end date

to send an SMS message

Send an SMS message using the Twilio API.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
sender number	The Twilio phone number to send the message from	text	Yes	(no default)
recipient number	The recipient's phone number	text	Yes	(no default)
message body	The body of the SMS message to send	text	Yes	(no default)

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
answer	The SID of the sent message if successful, otherwise None.	text

Examples

Send an SMS message

send an SMS message where
  the sender number is "[phone]"
  the recipient number is "[phone]"
  the message body is "Hello from Kognitos!"