gjmf / twerp

Twerp is the telephone hackers toolkit. It's also a command-line app for Twilio, written in Python

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Twerp is the telephone hackers toolkit.

Twerp is also:

• A command-line interface for the Twilio API
• Your own Phone Company. From the command-line!
• A tool that will revolutionize crank calling (only legal from California to the French parts of Canada. Note: IANALBISEEOC (I am not a lawyer but I've seen every episode of Cops).

Features:

• Buy phone numbers from the command-line in the U.S., toll free and wherever Twilio sells them
• Manage Twilio accounts: create new sub-accounts, list, rename accouts
• Make phone calls from the command-line
• Conrtol call flow from the command-line using stateless TwiML transactions (no web app necessary)
• Command-line driven conference calls
• Send and receive SMS text messages
• Read your Twilio logs from the command-line
• Modify the flow of calls or conferences in progress with a curses based comand-line interface
• Do lots of stuff without going to your dashboard on the twilio.com website

TODO:

• Plugin system based on Python entry_points
• Plugin to launch Bottle web app and localtunnel.com it!
• Plugin for Phox Flask webapp
• Create API for using alternate interfaces such as urwid to make complete SMS or phone app GUIs.
• Make an entire website about what I could do with Twilio+Twerp.

Installation

pip install twerp

Configure twerp

~/.twerprc

ACCOUNT_SID=a902830980980980ff987yada

AUTH_TOKEN=98798asdfas9df87sadf987yada

CALLERID=[phone]

Usage::

Usage: twerp [options]

Options:

-h, --help show this help message and exit --version Show twerp version and exit. -v, --verbose Show more output stuff. --debug Show debugging information. -q, --quiet Show less output.

Common options:

These options can be used for both SMS and voice calls.

-c CALLERID, --callerid=CALLERID

Phone number you are calling from or texting from.

-i, --interactive Go into interactive command-line mode after dialing

(voice or conferences).

Voice call options:

Place phone calls, execute TWIML.

-d [phone],[phone], --dial=[phone],[phone]

List of numbers to dial, comma-separated.

-y Say something., --say=Say something.

Use with --dial to say something.

-u URL of TWIML, --url=URL of TWIML

URL of TWIML to pass call with --call

-b [phone], --buy=[phone]

Buy a specific phone number listed with -x or -a

-a AREA CODE, --area-code=AREA CODE

Search for phone number to purchase by area code. Use -b to purchase from these results.

-x CONTAINS, --contains=CONTAINS

Search for phone number to purchase by numbers or letters it contains.

Conference (voice) options:

These options can be used for voice conference calls.

-f [phone],[phone], --conference=[phone],[phone]

Start conference with list of numbers to dial, comma-separated.

-o ROOM, --room=ROOM

Room to join for voice conference.

-e, --conferences Show conferences in-progress. -p, --conference-participants Show participants for all conferences in-progress.

SMS options:

Send and reveive SMS text messages.

-m <TXT MSG>, --message=<TXT MSG>

Send SMS text message

-s [phone],[phone], --sms=[phone],[phone]

Send SMS text message to list of numbers.

-l, --list-sms Show incoming SMS messages.

Reporting options:

List your Twilio phone numbers and information about each.

-n, --notifications

Show notifications from Twilio API (error messages and warnings).

-r, --numbers Show all my Twilio phone numbers. Use -Nv for detailed

info on each number.

--sid=SID Show log for given SID

Applications:

Twilio Application information.

--applications Show all my Twilio Applications.

Accounts:

Twilio account and sub-account management

--list-accounts

List all Twilio accounts and sub-accounts.

--create-sub-account=NAME

Create sub-account named 'NAME'

--rename-sub-account=NAME

Rename account or sub-account using 'NAME'

Interactive Mode

The Prompt

The prompt will have part of the SID if a call is in progress:

twerp (CA3abc...) >>

If you hang up a call, for example, there will be no SID, so the prompt will look like this:

twerp (...) >>

Interactive Mode Commands

• list - List all calls in progress, ringing or queued
• hangup - Hang up call associated with SID shown in prompt
• nuke - Hang up all calls associated with account. ALL OF THEM!
• forward <nnnnnnnnnn> - Redirect current call to another phone number
• url <URL> - Redirect flow of call to TwiML at a URL
• info [<SID>] - Show info for current SID or SID given
• sid <SID> - Change the current SID associated with interactive-mode

Installation

pip install twerp

Development

• We're on Freenode #twerp
• We're on Twitter @TwerpForTwilio
• We're on Github https://github.com/cakebread/twerp
• We're on continuous integration a la Jenkins http://cakebread.info:8080
• Fork it, phone it.

See http://blog.cakebread.info/