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Yeah you can sends texts to your phone just like sending an email.
How to do that?
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There are several international lists too, here's a couple: https://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways... https://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx
Do they work? For Portugal it still lists Telecel - which hasn't existed since '99.
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There are several international lists too, here's a couple: https://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways... https://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx
Do they work? For Portugal it still lists Telecel - which hasn't existed since '99.
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
The distill browser add-on will work for this too, except for the phone call. SMS is a paid feature but email and popup notifications are free.
I believe OP did this by running a cron or so on an always-on server.
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If you treat emails with the same urgency you give phone calls, I would argue there's a fault in your phone/communication set up. For most people I know, email can wait an hour or two, or even overnight. Phone calls require you to choose to ignore them.
Maybe in your world that works. Until the FCC develops redevelops any sort of interest in dealing with scammers, my phone is basically useless for most of the world to speak to me. If you're trying to reach me and are not on my list of approved callers, you can email me, or decide you didn't actually want to talk to me. (No, I don't use FB Messenger or related spyware, either.) On the other hand, I apparently pay muc…
IRC exists for a reason.
Now just figure out a way to sell the whole solution back to the university, and you'll have paid for your tuition fees.
Sounds like the quickest way to get a call from the university's IT department…
It sounds like exactly the sort of service they should be providing.
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
Nice story, and great that Twilio worked out for you - but this really is the sort of thing that email alerts (or IM alerts, or IRC alerts) should also work fine for. I would argue that the fact that you find SMS/phone calls a more urgent alert is a fault with your phone/communication setup - and twilio is an interesting hack around that. But there really should be an easy way to make just as much ruckus from a simpl…
Given the synchronous nature of a phone call, it seems like the perfect medium for this kind of alert. Similarly, SMS piggybacks off of the same network and therefore inherits some of the same properties.
I did this for one of my classes as well. But since it was just a one off, I just put this bash script in a cron job on a free-tier AWS ec2. It just did a quick and dirty parse of the html, which for my university wasn't behind a login wall. $seats="$(curl $URL | sed \"140qd\" | sed -nE \"s/ | //gp\")" if [ $seats -gt 0 ]; then echo "Go register for class $URL" | msmtp -a "default" $EMAIL fi
Yep. This is what I did. Also, I just used the email address for my phone's SMS. I'm not sure why you need Twilio for this, seems like over kill to me.
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
Greg from Twilio here. Congrats on your immigration! Glad we could play a small part in that journey, but credit goes to you for your courage and creativity. Would love to hear more of your story. Would you mind dropping me a note at gb@twilio.com?