Check Twilio balance from API

Question

Does anyone know how to programmatically check account balances in Twilio (via API)? Was it not implemented?

Answer 1

You can get Twilio Account details and then make a request to get balance using subresource_uris.balance from Account response

{
  "status": "active",
  "subresource_uris": {
     ...
     "balance": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Balance.json"
  },
  "type": "Full",
  ...
}

Here's a snippet - https://gist.github.com/andriichuk/d1c81e58398b19979a3ddbe8a64b316b

Answer 2

It's not possible to check account balances via the Twilio API.

Please see the REST API documentation for what's possible: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest

Answer 3

Update 06/27/2020 - Twilio's website now includes an example cURL script which can be wrapped in an HTML GET request: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025294494-Check-Your-Twilio-Project-Balance

Here is the C# code I use to get a value:

using System.Net;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

string url = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/" + accountSid + "/Balance.json";
var client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(accountSid, authToken);
string responseString = client.DownloadString(url);

dynamic responseObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<object>(responseString);
double accountBalance = Double.Parse(responseObject["balance"].Value);
accountBalance = Math.Round((double)accountBalance,2);

Answer 4

I confirm there is no API call to get the balance of your account. Even 2 years after this question has been asked. I have lodged a ticket requesting such basic action and was told "it's on the to-do list" but they weren't too convincing. For whatever reason, it's by design you can't get your balance. It is a shame because they have such a formidable API and feature-set.

Answer 5

This is possible trough the use of HttpClient. Here is an C# example:

public static string GetTwilioBalance(string accountSid, string authToken)
   {
       // declare variable to assign later on
       dynamic balance = null;

       // check required parameters value
       if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(accountSid) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(authToken))
       {
           // initialize the TwilioClient using credentials passed as parameters
           TwilioClient.Init(accountSid, authToken);

           // declare instance of HttpClient
           using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
           {
               // declaring and assigning the authorization value to pass as a parameter in the request to the API
               string base64authorization = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(accountSid + ":" + authToken));

               // adding it and using Basic authentication
               httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", base64authorization);

               // receiving the raws response (got url from reading docs and other posts from other languages)
               HttpResponseMessage response = httpClient.GetAsync("https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/" + accountSid + "/Balance.json").Result;

               // assigning the content to a variable 
               HttpContent content = response.Content;

               // reading the string
               string result = content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

               // multiple ways of reading Json (which we will receive as result, here are 2

               //dynamic value = JObject.Parse(result);
               //string result1 = value.balance;
               //string result2 = value["balance"];

               // I prefer this one but this is a preference :)
               balance = JObject.Parse(result)["balance"].ToString();                                            
           }
       }

       // you can handle this as you like
       // for example purposes I am returning either the value of the Balance or a string value to flag/check afterwards if not succesful
       return (balance != null) ? balance : "BalanceNotRetrieved";
   }

And you could use it like that:

string twilioBalance = GetTwilioBalance(accountSid, authToken);

Hope it helps someone!

Answer 6

For those who work with node.js (javascript), the best way :

       require('dotenv').config();
    const client = require('twilio')(process.env.ACCOUNT_SID, process.env.AUTH_TOKEN)
    
    client.balance.fetch()
      .then((data) => {
        const balance = Math.round(data.balance * 100) / 100;
        const currency = data.currency;
        console.log(`Your account balance is ${balance} ${currency}.`)
      });

more information => https://www.twilio.com/blog/check-twilio-account-balance-javascript

Work perfectly !

Answer 7

You can get Balance by Python using this script :

from twilio.rest import Client

client = Client()
balance_data = client.api.v2010.balance.fetch()
balance = float(balance_data.balance)
currency = balance_data.currency

print(f'Your account has {balance:.2f}{currency} left.')

check this Tutorial is working for me ,is working for account and sub account

Answer 8

I grab all records and use this in python (for loop in records):

Balance = 1024 - round_decimal(r.price)

The 1024 is the amount I paid in (which needs to be updated when applicable), price is what I have spent from the API. It's the best I've come up with, blends what you know with what limited info the API gives.