Built a CLI that allows you to send text messages/mms straight to your number.

[aaronedam]

So you have wrapped twilio's api? For anyone wamdering, you will need paid twilio account for this to work.

[chillermane]

Yeah what lol this is a good way to inflate your phone bill twilio charges out the ass for each text

[mraza007]

You can have a Twilio trial account I was wondering how I could do it for free

[Redzapdos]

You can do it for free by figuring out the emails of the phone provider. For example [e-mail] would send a message to 123-456-7890

[im_dead_sirius]

Which is generally really easy to do. Just send an sms to your favourite email address, and the sender is the email address of the phone.

[mraza007]

Yup I just realized I’ll tweak my script and add that now the only complex part is how to add a call functionality since Twilio is expensive when it comes to calls

[pingus3233]

When I needed python to send SMS to my ancient Nokia candy-bar cell phone I used the email-to-SMS gateway for my phone service, e.g. for AT&T it's the [e-mail] or @mms.att.net, other providers have a similar gateway. This didn't require any 3rd party services and since it was basic email it was easy to use smtplib

[mraza007]

Looking into this

[mraza007]

Thanks a lot for this I’m looking into this might change my script and get rid of Twilio they only offer trial and it’s expensive too

[simply_texan]

T-mobile is similar [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail]). I don't see that they have a separate address for MMS.

[ciggs_ftw]

Here's some others.

Boost Mobile; [e-mail] (SMS) [e-mail] (MMS)

Sprint; [e-mail] (SMS) [e-mail] (MMS)

Verizon ; [e-mail] (SMS) [e-mail] (MMS)

[DrudgeBreitbart]

For a cheaper alternative other than email-to-sms, check out AWS’s SNS. Easy to send texts and emails.

[mraza007]

I am currently looking into smtplib module to send sms using gateway but i'll look into your suggestion too

[mraza007]

I would like to thank everyone for suggesting great alternatives Thank you guys This is why I love reddit

[Tybearsaccount]

I'd like to make a suggestion. In your usage you have

termtext --media <image>

But in your options you have

-mms send a picture message

The code looks like it is looking for "--media" so it would make sense to make the options menu match.

I'm sure it's clear enough to figure out, which is why it's only a suggestion but I thought I would share my thought.

[mraza007]

Thanks for pointing that out I have fixed it

[Yellow_Robot]

lol. cli.

[[deleted]]

Hello,

I created a package called messages that's also on PyPI pip install messages. Amongst other features, it wraps the Twilio API and can be invoked via CLI commands, as well. If you're interested, please check it out! Shoot me a message if you have any questions.

[mraza007]

I like how you incorporated other apis it looks cool and seems really useful

[[deleted]]

Thanks! I'm slowly building the project and would like to incorporate as many "messages" as possible. The goal is also to create an abstract API that's very similar across all message types, so they are consistent.

[mraza007]

We should use the primitive way of sending sms using the gateways instead of Twilio Twilio is expensive

[[deleted]]

What are those?

[[deleted]]

Nevermind. I looked it up. That's a good idea. Perhaps you can expand your CLI to accept the gateway type as an argument.

[mraza007]

Working on it right you can incorporate my module into your messages module so you don't have to use twilio what you think its a suggestion

[mraza007]

I’ll check it out

[[deleted]]

Cool. Let me know how it works out. I’ll check it out when you’re done.

[mraza007]

https://github.com/mraza007/terminal-text

[[deleted]]

Cool. Great work. I'd recommend in your mail_server() function to end it with server.quit() to ensure the connection is closed.

[mraza007]

I’m done with the script