Appointment Reminder Demo

This is a simple remidner demo app using Twiml along with a call initiation demo example.

Installation & Usage

You can simply set up an run the server. No configuration is required to run this server.

$ go get github.com/grokify/twilio-appointment-reminder-demo
$ cd twilio-appointment-reminder-demo
$ go run main.go

This will use a default server port, 8081. Optionally set one in the environment:

$ PORT=8080 go run main.go

Ngrok

Your server must be available online. An easy way to set this up is to use ngrok tunneling. For example:

$ ngrok http 8081

Demo Phone Call

To set up a demo a phone call, create an examples/call/.env file using the examples/call/.env.sample file and set all the parameters for your demo.

Of note, configure the TWILIO_DEMO_CALLBACKURL to be your hostname plus the call start endpoint reminder_start. For example:

TWILIO_DEMO_CALLBACKURL=https://12345678.ngrok.io/reminder_start

Once .env is configured, simply run the demo script:

$ cd twilio-appointment-reminder-demo
$ cd examples/call
$ go run main.go

You will receive a call on your TWILIO_DEMO_TO number and see debug output like the following.

{
  "Sid": "MySID",
  "Token": "MyToken",
  "To": "+14155550100",
  "From": "+16505550100",
  "Log": "+16505550100",
  "CallbackURL": "https://12345678.ngrok.io/reminder_start"
}
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