46elks at Hack the Crisis Croatia 🇭🇷

Automating telephony 📞 with code.

You can write code that will
send and receive SMS 📲,
make and receive phone calls ☎️
and in other ways work with phone numbers and telephony using 46elks.

Can I send SMS from the command line?
Yes, you can use elkme or take a look at the cURL example.

Code examples in many different programming languages available on github.
Quicklinks: cURL, C#, Java, NODE, PHP, Python, ruby and haskell

An example in python of how you can use the 46elks API to send an SMS:

import requests

fields = {
    'from': 'FoodFetch',
    'to': '+46722535106',
    'message': 'Hi Caroline.
                Kim needs help shopping groceries,
                he lives 10 min away from you.
                Can you help Kim out today?'
    }

auth = (
    'USERNAME',
    'PASSWORD'
    )

requests.post("https://api.46elks.com/a1/SMS", data=fields, auth=auth)

Register an account to get a USERNAME and a PASSWORD.
If you register during Hack the Crisis, using the link above, you'll get some credits for free and a phone number on your account.

If you want to use SMS or phone calls in your solution let us know and we'll help you with what you need.

Questions?
Ask Rene (rene@46elks.com)!