Twilio Send Notification Messages (Nodejs SDK)

• Login to Twilio Dashboard and Click Messaging -> Get Setup
• https://console.twilio.com/us1/develop/sms/services



• Click Create Messaging Service and add your phone number.
• Setup a notify service instance. Make note of the SID! You will use this later when you start writing code further down.
• https://www.twilio.com/console/notify/services
• ** There isn’t a menu link fo rnotification service in new Twilio panel.

• Now choose your new Messaging Service for this Notify Service Instance
• We need three keys to send Notification message in twilio.
• accountSid
• authToken
• Service Instance SID

Account SID and Auth Token:

Go to Dashboard and click on Messaging Overview:

Get Service Instance ID: We have created SID above. You can go to this link and copy your Instance ID.

https://www.twilio.com/console/notify/services

Note: Service Instance id will start with: ISxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

• Now we have all the details available, lets get into the code. Get the Official Nodejs sdk from twilio resouces.
• https://github.com/twilio/twilio-node
• Clone the repo and run:
• npm install
• Create a file send_sms.js which you’ll run though node to trigger sms (this can be modified as per your use case).

const twilio = require('twilio');const accountSid = 'ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';const authToken = '12sadf2323424232sdfa23';const notifySID = 'ISXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);const data = require('./import-data.js');/* Lets format the data into desired array :[  '{"binding_type":"sms","address":"+44XXXXXXXXXX"}',  '{"binding_type":"sms","address":"+44XXXXXXXXXxx"}' ]*/let formattedData = [];data.forEach(function(value){formattedData.push(JSON.stringify(value));});console.log(formattedData);const notificationOpts = {toBinding: formattedData,body: 'YOUR MESSAGE HERE!',};client.notify.services(notifySID).notifications.create(notificationOpts).then(binding => console.log(binding.sid)).catch(error => console.log(error)).done();

Create import-data.js and add your sms list into that:

module.exports = [{binding_type: 'sms',address: '+44555555555'},{binding_type: 'sms',address: '+440777777777'},];

• Go to terminal and run:
• node send_sms.js

It will queue all the messages at once and twilio will process the queue.

Resource: https://codedrill.in/twilio-send-notification-messages-nodejs-sdk/