📲 Rick Roll Someone with Appwrite, Twilio, and .NET 6.0

🤖 Documentation

Appwrite Cloud Function that rick rolls a person on phone call via Twilio.

Example input:

This function expects a phone number in the payload in the following format: +[Country Code][Phone Number]

Here's an example JSON input:

{
    "phoneNumber": "+919876543210"
}

Example output:

{
	"twilioResponse": {
		"Sid": "CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5",
		"DateCreated": null,
		"DateUpdated": null,
		"ParentCallSid": null,
		"AccountSid": "ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd",
		"To": "\u002B919876543210",
		"ToFormatted": "\u002B919876543210",
		"From": "\u002B12184232045",
		"FromFormatted": "(218) 423-2045",
		"PhoneNumberSid": "PN671d012061f32085fcd63b046f23826f",
		"Status": {},
		"StartTime": null,
		"EndTime": null,
		"Duration": null,
		"Price": null,
		"PriceUnit": "USD",
		"Direction": "outbound-api",
		"AnsweredBy": null,
		"ApiVersion": "2010-04-01",
		"ForwardedFrom": null,
		"GroupSid": null,
		"CallerName": null,
		"QueueTime": "0",
		"TrunkSid": null,
		"Uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5.json",
		"SubresourceUris": {
			"feedback": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Feedback.json",
			"notifications": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Notifications.json",
			"recordings": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Recordings.json",
			"streams": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Streams.json",
			"payments": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Payments.json",
			"siprec": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Siprec.json",
			"events": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/CA83758d533c786be5bcf82e34b94cc8b5/Events.json",
			"feedback_summaries": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACe29c144db149972dbf5427bbdd0c16dd/Calls/FeedbackSummary.json"
		}
	}
}

📝 Environment Variables

Go to Settings tab of your Cloud Function and add the following environment variables:

• TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID: Twilio Account SID
• TWILIO_AUTHTOKEN: Twilio Auth Token
• TWILIO_PHONENUMBER: Twilio Phone Number to make the call from

ℹ️ The Twilio Account SID and Auth Token can be obtained from your Twilio console. You can purchase a Twilio phone number using this guide.

🚀 Deployment

There are two ways of deploying the Appwrite function, both having the same results, but each using a different process. We highly recommend using CLI deployment to achieve the best experience.

Using CLI

Make sure you have Appwrite CLI installed, and you have successfully logged into your Appwrite server. To make sure Appwrite CLI is ready, you can use the command appwrite client --debug and it should respond with green text ✓ Success.

Make sure you are in the same folder as your appwrite.json file and run appwrite deploy function to deploy your function. You will be prompted to select which functions you want to deploy.

Manual using tar.gz

Manual deployment has no requirements and uses Appwrite Console to deploy the tag. First, enter the folder of your function. Then, create a tarball of the whole folder and gzip it. After creating .tar.gz file, visit Appwrite Console, click on the Deploy Tag button and switch to the Manual tab. There, set the entrypoint to src/Index.cs, and upload the file we just generated.