ExTwilio

ExTwilio is a relatively full-featured API client for the Twilio API.

Installation

ExTwilio is currently beta software. You can install it from Hex:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_twilio, "~> 0.9.1"}
  ]
end

Or from Github:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_twilio, github: "danielberkompas/ex_twilio"}
  ]
end

and run mix deps.get.

If using Elixir 1.3 or lower add :ex_twilio as a application dependency:

def application do
  [
    applications: [:ex_twilio]
  ]
end

Configuration

You will need to set the following configuration variables in your config/config.exs file:

use Mix.Config

config :ex_twilio, account_sid:   {:system, "TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"},
                   auth_token:    {:system, "TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"},
                   workspace_sid: {:system, "TWILIO_WORKSPACE_SID"} # optional

For security, I recommend that you use environment variables rather than hard coding your account credentials. If you don't already have an environment variable manager, you can create a .env file in your project with the following content:

export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=<account sid here>
export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=<auth token>
export TWILIO_WORKSPACE_SID=<workspace sid here> #optional

Then, just be sure to run source .env in your shell before compiling your project.

Multiple Environments

If you want to use different Twilio credentials for different environments, then create separate Mix configuration files for each environment. To do this, change config/config.exs to look like this:

# config/config.exs

use Mix.Config

# shared configuration for all environments here ...

import_config "#{Mix.env}.exs"

Then, create a config/#{environment_name}.exs file for each environment. You can then set the config :ex_twilio variables differently in each file.

Usage

ExTwilio comes with a module for each supported Twilio API resource. For example, the "Call" resource is accessible through the ExTwilio.Call module. Depending on what the underlying API supports, a resource module may have the following methods:

Method	Description
all	Eager load all of the resource items on all pages. Use with care!
stream	Create a Stream of all the items. Use like any Stream.
find	Find a resource given its SID.
create	Create a resource.
update	Update a resource.
destroy	Destroy a resource.

Resource modules may contain their own custom methods. If the underlying API endpoint does not support an action, the related method will not be available on that module.

Supported Endpoints

ExTwilio currently supports the following Twilio endpoints:

• Account. Including SubAccounts.
• Address
  • DependentPhoneNumber
• Application
• AuthorizedConnectApp
• AvailablePhoneNumber
• Call
  • Feedback
• Conference
  • Participant
• ConnectApp
• IncomingPhoneNumber
• Message
  • Media
• Notification
• OutgoingCallerId
• Queue
  • Member
• Recording
• ShortCode
• Token
• Transcription
• SipCredentialList
  • SipCredential
• SipDomain
• SipIPAccessControlList
  • SipIpAddress

Twilio's Lookup Rest API:

• Lookup

Twilio's TaskRouter API:

• Overview
• Activites
• Events
• Task Channels
• Tasks
  • Reservations
• TaskQueues
  • Statistics
• Workers
  • Channels
  • Statistics
• Workflows
  • Statistics
• Workspaces
  • Statistics

Twilio's ProgrammableChat API:

• Overview
• Services
  • Channels
    • Members
  • Users
    • UserChannels
  • Roles
• Credentials

Twilio Capability Tokens:

• Worker
• Calling (Deprecated, use Access Token instead)

Twilio Access Token Grants:

• Chat
• Voice
• Video

Example

# Get all the calls in the Call endpoint. Be warned, this will block
# until all the pages of calls have been fetched.
calls = ExTwilio.Call.all

# Create a stream of all the calls
stream = ExTwilio.Call.stream

# Lazily filter calls by duration, then map to get only their SIDs
stream
|> Stream.filter(fn(call) -> call.duration > 120 end)
|> Stream.map(fn(call) -> call.sid end)
|> Enum.into([]) # Only here does any work happen.
# => ["CAc14d7...", "CA649ea861..."]

# Find a call
{:ok, call} = ExTwilio.Call.find("CA13a9c7f80c6f3761fabae43242b5b6c6")
inspect(call)
# %ExTwilio.Call{
#   account_sid: "ACxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
#   answered_by: nil, caller_name: "",
#   date_created: "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:27:38 +0000",
#   date_updated: "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:28:35 +0000",
#   direction: "outbound-api",
#   duration: "52",
#   end_time: "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:28:35 +0000",
#   forwarded_from: nil,
#   from: "+1xxxxxxxxxx",
#   parent_call_sid: nil,
#   phone_number_sid: "",
#   price: "-0.01500",
#   price_unit: "USD",
#   sid: "CA13a9c7f80c6f3761fabae43242b5b6c6",
#   start_time: "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:27:43 +0000",
#   status: "completed",
#   to: "+1xxxxxxxxxx",
#   uri: "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Calls/CAxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.json"
# }

# Update a call
call = ExTwilio.Call.update(call, status: "canceled")

# Get a call's recordings. This pattern is repeated wherever you are
# getting a nested resource.
recordings = ExTwilio.Recording.all(call: call.sid)

# Destroy a call
ExTwilio.Call.destroy(call)

For more in-depth documentation, see the generated docs for each module.

Making and Receiving Calls

See the CALLING_TUTORIAL.md file for instructions on making and receiving calls from the browser with ExTwilio.

Sending SMS messages

Please look at ExTwilio.Message

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for contribution guidelines.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2015 Daniel Berkompas

ExTwilio is licensed under the MIT license. For more details, see the LICENSE file at the root of the repository. It depends on Elixir, which is under the Apache 2 license.

Twilio™ is trademark of Twilio, Inc.