lita-twilio
Lita-Twilio integrates your Twilio account into Lita. Send and receive text messages from your company chat room.
Installation
Add lita-twilio to your Lita instance's Gemfile:
gem "lita-twilio"
Configuration
There's a bit of Yak-shaving to do here, sorry.
Required attributes
- default_room (
String) - The room or person Lita will message on receipt of incoming SMS. - account_sid (
String) Your Twilio account's sid. - auth_token (
String) Your Twilio account's auth_token. - phone_number (
String) Your Twilio account's phone_number. - server_token (
String) A keyphrase you will use to authenticate requests to the :post route. You'll need this token to properly setup Twilio callbacks to power the receive route.
Twilio Account Setup
- If you have the free account, you'll need to manually add and verify numbers to which you want to send.
- Go to
https://www.twilio.com/user/account/phone-numbers/incomingand change theRequest URLunder messages tohttp://yourdomain.com/twilio?token=VALUE-OF-YOUR-CONFIG-SERVER_TOKEN.
Usage
*Litabot: sms 415-867-5309 Hello Jenny will send an SMS to (415) 867-5309 with the message "Hello Jenny"
- Phone numbers must be strictly in the XXX-XXX-XXXX format, and sms or SMS (case insensitive) must be used as a command to Litabot.
- Any incoming messages to your Twilio account will be displayed with the message and sender.
Contributing
Pull requests are welcome! The plan for version > 1.0 will support some of Twilio's other functionality: send and receive telephone calls, and I'm open to any suggestions. Please use the issues to file bug reports.