Twilio autopilot whatsapp initiate a conversation to a phone using nodeJS

Question

I created a Autopilot bot in console of Twilio. I need to publish that bot to multiple phone numbers from an nodeJS endpoint. My questions are :

How do i send the actions from an nodeJS app to initiate the conversation ?
Can i send the bot to different numbers from that nodeJS app and get the individual responses as an callback.

What do you mean "send publish"? – lizziepika May 26 '20 at 18:46 — lizziepika, May 26 '20 at 18:46
Sorry typo, that is send only, will edit it. – Ram May 26 '20 at 19:31 — Ram, May 26 '20 at 19:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '20 at 19:37

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Twilio developer evangelist here.

You can initiate a message with the bot using the Twilio REST API in the programming language of your choosing, like JavaScript, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python, or Java.

curl -X POST https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Messages.json \
--data-urlencode "Body=Hi there!" \
--data-urlencode "From=REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-TWILIO-NUMBER" \
--data-urlencode "To=+NUMBER-TO-TEXT" \
-u ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:your_auth_token

This cURL request initiates an outbound SMS. Then if you configure the Twilio number to an Autopilot bot, when the user responds, they will enter in to the bot dialogue.

You can publish the bot to multiple numbers either in the phone number console for each number and get the responses in the Autopilot request like with Memory.

answered May 26 '20 at 19:37

lizziepika

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Thanks for response. I want to initiate an autopilot, not send an message. Can i do that from an nodeJS app? – Ram May 27 '20 at 05:01
Where Autopilot initiates the message? I don't understand the difference between initiating an autopilot session and Autopilot sending the first message – lizziepika May 27 '20 at 19:14
I want to initiate the autopilot session – Ram May 28 '20 at 17:13
What will happen once the autopilot session is initiated? – lizziepika Jun 30 '20 at 19:24

Twilio autopilot whatsapp initiate a conversation to a phone using nodeJS

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