(Seeking Consult) Twilio call forwarding & tracking

chris.williamson1996 · 2024-07-23T19:51:55.177Z

Has anyone recently setup call forwarding & tracking through twilio with twilioML.

Specifically dynamically with hundreds/thousands of numbers & more being registered daily.

Looking for consult call asap with someone who has recently done this to expedite having to go through twilio documentation to achieve a very quick turn around for a client.

jonah.deleseleuc · 2024-07-23T20:04:17.411Z

Send you a DM

Baloshi69 · 2024-07-24T09:54:55.424Z

Anyone here, i need to help, can anyone guide me on a resources where i can learn how i can purchase number from twilio , i am thinking on a app where i give temporary number to user.

chris.williamson1996 · 2024-07-24T09:58:53.731Z

Sure @Baloshi69

Here’s the call to search for numbers to buy

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Search non local numbers

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Here’s call to actually buy the number

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I’d recommend reading into Twilio API, Most of it is pretty simple. Twilio is very diverse.

Baloshi69 · 2024-07-24T17:17:12.851Z

okey, any requirement i need to consider before i buy a number for a client, like verifying him or something,

jonah.deleseleuc · 2024-07-26T09:58:02.639Z

Chris and I were able to work together to get forwarding & tracking to work with Twilio and Bubble. Here is a summary:

List Available numbers & purchase a phone number with twilio (API connector)
Create a webhook in your backend workflows. Then, set the voice_url of the phone number you purchased to the webhook url you created.
Create a serverless function inside of the twilio dashboard and have it return the twiml (xml) required for forwarding a call. Then, in your webhook, make a request to your twilio function. You’ll need to create a plugin server side action to make this request though because the API connector does not support returning XML without first converting it to JSON (very annoying).
In your webhook, after making the request to your function, use the “return data” action and return the xml from your request to your twilio function. Watch out, you need to set the content type to other and then input application/xml.
Now when someone calls the number, it will make aPOST request to your webhook and the webhook will return the twiml (as raw xml) that will tell twilio to forward the call. The person calling the number will then be forwarded

Congratulations!