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Twilio Cookbook

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook The Twilio cookbook will enable all kinds of telephone usage, including SMS, on your websites. It's a totally practical guide with a hands-on approach to help you dig deep into the enormous potential of telephone facilities on the Web.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166061
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Into the Frying Pan FREE CHAPTER 2. Now We're Cooking 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 Index

Searching for local movie listings


For local movie listings, we're moving away from YQL and using Google's movie listing service. You just text "movies" and it will return local movie listings, what time they are playing, and the theatre where it is being screened.

There isn't actually a good API system for looking up movies, so this is kind of a hybrid lookup system that will actually read the content of a web page and return the movie listings.

Scraping , which is what we call this type of lookup, has ups and downs. The upside is that it lets us grab information from web sites that we normally wouldn't be able to get by any other way; however, the downside is that, if the web site changes in any way, the lookup can be broken.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

Who wants to go to the movies? This recipe will extend our local search system even further with a handy movie listing.

  1. Download the Simple HTML Dom library from...

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