Twillio
In this chapter we will configure twilio to work with our Amazon lex bot
creating a twillio account
Open twilio with the following link TWILLIO
- click on login then follow the instruction to login into your account
- choose the most importance part in the TWILLIO configuration :
- choose SMS as used
- in the How do you want to build with twillio choose with minimum code
- then click get started
- in twillio home screen choose get phone number
- click on your twillio account
- get the Account SID and Auth Token to used with lex bot
building lex bot to work with twillio
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on bot version click create version
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click on Create version
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on channel integration click Add channel
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on the channel integration creation form :
- click on twillio
- name the bot twillio bot
- choose TestBotAlias
- choose language as English
- then add the account id and authentication key in your twillio account
5 when created successfully copy the url of the channel
calling whatapp using twillio
- testing the whatapp messaging
- In twillio click on Messaging
- click on Send a WhatApp Message
- In whatapp try to send a message to whatapp twillio will give you the phone number and join code copy them:
- find the twillio number on whatapp then enter paste the code to used twillio
- In the whatapp sand bot setting copy the lex bot url into the post
- then hit save
- now you can talk to your lex bot thought whatapp using twillio
