Accepting mobile short code texts (e.g. Twitter) with Django

Ive tried to look up how to accept texts from mobile phones with Django (e.g. like Twitter) to post data to user accounts. All i have ran across is how to make a mobile web app with django as in different layouts etc.. Has anyone any idea where a tutorial on this might 开发者_开发问答be or how in the world to start doing this with django? Thanks!

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There are two ways to achieve what you want:

Home-grown solution

Attach a mobile phone to a PC and periodically read incoming SMS from the phone. Probably the easiest way to accomplish this is with gammu, specifically gammu-smsd-mysql. It writes incoming SMS to a MySQL database. Just make sure the phone you use is supported by gammu.

You can easily connect to this database from Django, see Integrating Django with a legacy database.

I used this approach for a while and it worked reliably, although on a very small scale. If you plan to build a real service that receives thousands of SMS, the home-grown solution is not for you.

Professional solution

Find a service provider that offers an SMS gateway. There are countless providers, the first name that comes to my mind is Twilio.

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There is a django based SMS application framework called RapidSMS. I am using it for a project at the moment, and it works fine. Here is the link

http://www.rapidsms.org/

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First of all you either need to setup your own gateway with a mobile phone and a software that reads incoming text and processes it or find a service provider. If you buy a short code it may be costly but there should be some services around that allows you to use common number with a keyword to receive and process incoming txts.