Send a Text Message inside a LiveCode Application

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lohill
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Send a Text Message inside a LiveCode Application

Post by lohill » Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:29 pm

I have an application that periodically checks a website for a piece of information. If that information is not found, the program waits for a while before checking again. When my application finds what it is looking for it currently beeps a few times to notify me of success. Is it possible to make my program (on a Mac) send a text message to my phone? If it is possible, would you please suggest some things I could research in order to accomplish that. Or better yet, site an example for me.

Thanks in advance,
Larry

stam
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Re: Send a Text Message inside a LiveCode Application

Post by stam » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:49 pm

I suspect you'll have to use an API to a service such as Twilio (i did this for a filemaker app some years ago).

Have look at options here: https://rapidapi.com/blog/sms-apis-send-texts/

Hope that helps!
Stam

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