How-to: Craigslist phone verification type system

2 pointsby apollovor 17 Jahren6 comments

How would I go about building a craigslist-type phone verification system, which, when given a phone number, either texts or calls the number with a code that the user can use to verify that it's their phone?

4 comments

timfvor 17 Jahren

Check out http://twilio.com for making voice calls programmatically.

e.g. http://www.twilio.com/docs/demos/appointmentreminder

timfvor 17 Jahren

Note this thread:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/are_there_any_futur...

... says they are only evaluating SMS at this time but an SMS gateway would be much easier to find out there (someone in the thread even pitches an option, http://www.textmarks.com )

timfvor 17 Jahren

Twilio rocks. I just got it going with Python from our chat system at work... took about 20 minutes.

fuzzmeistervor 17 Jahren

Using an SMS aggregator such as CellTrust, you could send the user a code through a shared short code. Or, if you're willing to put up with short ads at the bottom of messages, you could try TextMarks.

timfvor 17 Jahren

Looks like textmarks requires the person to subscribe before you can send messages to them: "To keep everybody happy and prevent abuse, you can only send texts to subscribers of your TextMark."

http://www.textmarks.com/dev/docs/send/?ref=devsb

[deleted]vor 17 Jahren

timfvor 17 Jahren

sms option to consider: http://zeepmobile.com