texter.js

texter.js

A simple command line utility to send text messages using the Twilio REST API

Install

$ npm install texter.js

Add your Twilio Accound Sid, Auth Token and a registered phone number to the configuration.js file.

Run tests

$ npm test

Usage

Help

$ ./texter.js --help

Send to multiple recepients

$ ./texter.js --body "the text message" --recepients [phone],[phone]

List received messages (Inbox)

$ ./texter.js -i

List sent messages (Outbox)

$ ./texter.js -o

Listen to text messages being received

$ ./texter.js -l

texter.js will create a server that will listen to Twilio's webhook as specified in the TwiML SMS Documentation. The 'SMS Request URL' needs to be set in your phone number settings.

To run this option from Heroku, set 'SMS Request URL' to your Heroku app url and push to Heroku

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku ps:scale web=1
$ sudo heroku logs --source app --tail

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 <[e-mail]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.