Twilio

Overview

Twilio is a messaging platform that allows you to programmatically send and receive SMS messages, send and receive voice calls, and perform other communication functions. This Parsons integration provides methods for fetching messages, accounts, and account usage data.

Note

Authentication

Twilio requires an account SID and an authorization token, which can be found in the Admin Console.

For more information about authentication, see the Twilio API documentation.

Quick Start

Get Account Usage

To instantiate the Twilio class, you can either store your Twilio account SID and authorization token as environmental variables (TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, respectively) or pass them in as arguments:

from parsons import Twilio

# First approach: Use API credentials via environmental variables
twilio = Twilio()

# Second approach: Pass API credentials as arguments
twilio = Twilio(account_sid='account_sid', auth_token='my_auth_token')

# Get usage last month
twilio.get_account_usage(time_period='last_month')

# Get usage for a specific date period
twilio.get_account_usage(start_date='2019-10-01', end_date='2019-10-05')

# Get usage for a specific resource
twilio.get_account_usage(category='sms-inbound')

     # Get messages from a specific day
     twilio.get_messages(date_sent='10-01-2019')

     # Get messages sent to a specific phone number
     twilio.get_messages(to='9995675309')

API

class parsons.Twilio(account_sid=None, auth_token=None)[source]

Instantiate the Twilio class

Args:

account_sid: str: The Twilio account sid. Not required if TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID env variable is passed.
auth_token: str: The Twilio auth token. Not required if TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN env variable is passed.

Returns:

Twilio class

get_account(account_sid)[source]

Get Twilio account

Args:

account_sid: str: The Twilio account sid

Returns:

dict

get_accounts(name=None, status=None)[source]

Get Twilio accounts including subaccounts.

Args:

name: str: Filter to name of the account
status: str: Filter to an account status of active, closed or suspended.

Returns:

Parsons Table: See Parsons Table for output options.

get_account_usage(category=None, start_date=None, end_date=None, time_period=None, group_by=None, exclude_null=False)[source]

Get Twilio account usage.

Args:

category: str: Filter to a specific type of usage category. The list of possibilities can be found here.
start_date: str: Filter to usage from a specific start date (ex. 2019-01-01).
end_date: str: Filter to usage from a specific end date (ex. 2019-01-01).
time_period: str: A convenience method to filter usage. Can be one of today, yesterday, this_month, last_month.
group_by: str: The time interval to group usage by. Can be one of daily, monthly or yearly.
exclude_null: boolean: Exclude rows that have no usage.

Returns:

Parsons Table: See Parsons Table for output options.

get_messages(to=None, from_=None, date_sent=None, date_sent_before=None, date_sent_after=None)[source]

Get Twilio messages.

Args:

to: str: Filter to messages only sent to the specified phone number.
from_: str: Filter to messages only sent from the specified phone number.
date_sent: str: Filter to messages only sent on the specified date (ex. 2019-01-01).
date_sent_before: str: Filter to messages only sent before the specified date (ex. 2019-01-01).
date_sent_after: str: Filter to messages only sent after the specified date (ex. 2019-01-01).

Returns:

Parsons Table: See Parsons Table for output options.