Twilio-Sendsms-CLI

A command line interface for Twilio's Programmable SMS API.

A quick and easy way to send SMS from the command line using Twilio's Programmable SMS API.

Installation

1. Build the program for your os using the dotnet build command.
2. Place the compiled program where you want it, I reccomend adding it to PATH.
3. Create the config file. The program needs your Twilio API credentials in order to send messages. These are stored in a JSON file. If you use Linux, it will should be at /etc/sendsms/config.json, for Windows C:\Program Files\sendsms\config.json. The user which is to run the program, needs read access to this file. The file should be in the following format:

{
    "AccountSID": "INSERT Account SID",
    "AuthToken": "INSERT AUTH TOKEN",
    "ServiceSID": "INSERT MESSAGING SERVICE SID"
}

Usage

You can use this command in two ways.

Either as one command: sendsms RECIPIENT SENDER MESSAGE Such as sendsms +441134960000 Robot 'Hello world'

The other way is to just write sendsms, and fill in the information as the program asks for it.

sendsms
To: +441134960000
From: Robot
Message: Hello, World

If you want to schedule SMS', you should use the at command in unix. For example:

echo "sendsms +441134960000 Robot 'Hello world'" | at 1200 jan 1

The program will print the status code from Twilio's API, if the message was successfully sent, it will print Status: accepted.