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Ask HN: Automated calls to European phone numbers (urgent, details inside)
2 points by rudasn on Nov 22, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
An emergency has come up and I want to quickly hack a web app.

What I want is:

- a service with an API that would allow me to

- automatically call a mobile phone number and

- hang up when the person answers.

That is all the interaction I need.

I would be happier if I could also have multiple CallerIDs/names but at the moment this is #2.

I couldn't find anything useful through Google as I'm not sure what exactly this is called and what to search for. If anyone can give me some links or keywords or whatever it would be great.

Many thanks and apologies for the uninteresting thread.



Basically you want a "dirty dialer" program. You could always hack together something that accesses a modem attached to a server that makes calls based on a set of numbers. I remember doing something similar on my Commodore 64 way back... :)


Why do you need this? To check that the number is valid? There's been someone recently using this tactic to validate numbers and then spam them with SMS scams.


What I want is to receive phone calls on my phone at regular time intervals. Something like a reminder service.


You can use Google Calendar's SMS notification. In Europe it's free to receive messages and calls, so it costs nothing.


http://www.twilio.com/how-twilio-works


Thanks, last I checked they only offered services to US and Canada.


I think SMS is restricted only for US and Canada . Voice calls are enabled for all countries.




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