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How-to: Craigslist phone verification type system
How would I go about building a craigslist-type phone verification system, which, when given a phone number, either texts or calls the number with a code that the user can use to verify that it's their phone?
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- timf 18y agoCheck out http://twilio.com http://twilio.com for making voice calls programmatically. e.g. http://www.twilio.com/docs/demos/appointmentreminder http://www.twilio.com/docs/demos/appointmentreminder
- timf 18y agoNote this thread: http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/are_there_any_future_plans_to_send_and_recieve_sms_texts_as_well http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/are_there_any_futur... ... says they are only evaluating SMS at this time but an SMS gateway would be much easier to find out there (someone in the thread even pitches an option, http://www.textmarks.com http://www.textmarks.com )
- timf 18y agoTwilio rocks. I just got it going with Python from our chat system at work... took about 20 minutes.
- fuzzmeister 18y agoUsing an SMS aggregator such as CellTrust, you could send the user a code through a shared short code. Or, if you're willing to put up with short ads at the bottom of messages, you could try TextMarks.
- timf 18y agoLooks like textmarks requires the person to subscribe before you can send messages to them: "To keep everybody happy and prevent abuse, you can only send texts to subscribers of your TextMark." http://www.textmarks.com/dev/docs/send/?ref=devsb http://www.textmarks.com/dev/docs/send/?ref=devsb
- timf 18y agosms option to consider: http://zeepmobile.com http://zeepmobile.com