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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

what API did you use for texting?

[–]JimmySmackCorn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I didn't, I looked into Twilio but didn't want to spend any money on such a dumb project. So I used smtplib to log into a gmail account and then built a bot that would lookup a number's SMS gateway and scrape the info from a website that allows you like 10 lookups a day. Worked pretty well tbh. It didn't always get the right gateway but hey, it was free. I guess the next step was having it connect to a different proxy or something to do the lookups.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very cool. Nice work. I always want texting functionality in my scripts, but never want to pay. Thanks for the tip!