It really bothers me that I can send text messages with Twilio, but I can't receive any.
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Description
Issue Summary
I can easily call a Python function to send a message to a phone number. However, I cannot easily call a Python function to receive a message from a phone number: I have to set up webhooks and an API, and that is just a pain. It would be awesome if any messages received by my Twilio number get stored in a queue, and we had a simple Python function that gets the first message in that queue, or if there are no messages returns "no messages".
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the Twilio API and the Python module's existing message-sending interface, then examine how incoming messages currently depend on webhooks and an API. Done would mean received messages are stored in a queue and a simple Python function returns the first message or "no messages" when the queue is empty.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100