Im having trouble following the docs on Twilio for their API. It looks like theres a lot of unnecessary steps, unless im just an idiot. This code that I copy and pasted below works great, it prints out a list of the numbers that I would like to buy. My question is, is there an easy way to just purchase the first one available and assign it to a variable?
From what I understand, I have to go through an extra step of using this code in order to actually purchase the number.
incoming_phone_number = client.incoming_phone_numbers \
.create(phone_number='+15017122661')
Does this mean I have to manually enter the phone number I want to use? This would be fine, except im going to be using a lot of numbers in the application im building and I would like to be able to do .create(phone_number=chosenNumber
from twilio.rest import Client
#
account_sid = "accountsid"
auth_token = "authtoken"
client = Client(account_sid, auth_token)
local = client.available_phone_numbers('PR').mobile.list(
area_code=747,
limit=20
)
for record in local:
print(record.friendly_name)
Is this what you are looking for?
try:
first_number = local[0] # First element of list
incoming_phone_number = client.incoming_phone_numbers \
.create(phone_number=first_number.friendly_name)
except IndexError: # If the list was empty
print("No available numbers")