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Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition Over 70 easy-to-follow recipes, from exploring the key features of Twilio to building advanced telephony apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783550654
Length 334 pages
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Roger Stringer Roger Stringer
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Into the Frying Pan 2. Now We're Cooking FREE CHAPTER 3. Conducting Surveys via SMS 4. Building a Conference Calling System 5. Combining Twilio with Other APIs 6. Sending and Receiving SMS Messages 7. Building a Reminder System 8. Building an IVR System 9. Building Your Own PBX 10. Digging into OpenVBX 11. Sending and Receiving Picture Messages 12. Call Queuing 13. Working with Twilio Client Index

Searching Google using SMS


Want to just search the Web for something? This last recipe will let you do just that. This recipe will let us use the "search" keyword to trigger a search in Google and return the top three search results.

To do this, we're going to build a Custom Search Engine and also use Google's API.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter5/ folder.

How to do it...

And now, the big one. We will now add Google search to our local search system.

  1. Get your Google API key from https://code.google.com/apis/console.

  2. Go to http://www.google.com/cse/ and create a Custom Search Engine. We want it to search the entire Internet, so make sure you do the following:

    • In the Sites to Search field, feel free to enter any domain; we will delete it later

    • Head to the Setup tab under Edit search engine. In the Sites to Search drop-down list, select Search the entire web but emphasize included sites

    • Select the domain name that you entered on the list and delete...

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