twiliointegration-python.md

Create Twilio SMS handler - Python

Create an SMS endpoint

Create a Flask app (app.py) responding a Twilio message from GET requests on the /sms endpoint:

import os

from flask import Flask, request
from twilio.twiml.messaging_response import MessagingResponse

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/sms', methods=['GET'])
def sms_reply():
    body = request.values.get('Body', '-')
    resp = MessagingResponse()
    resp.message(f'The Knative copy cat says: {body}')
    return str(resp)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True, host='0.0.0.0', port=int(os.environ.get('PORT', 8080)))

Create a Dockerfile

Create a Dockerfile for the image:

FROM python:3.7-slim

RUN pip install Flask gunicorn twilio

WORKDIR /app
COPY . .

CMD exec gunicorn --bind :$PORT --workers 1 --threads 8 app:app

Note: The twilio client library is used in addition to Flask & gunicorn.

What's Next?

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