VOICE

Making a call

We will be making an outgoing call from a script running in the projectName folder. We create this folder in the Setup and Dependencies section.

You should have a virtual number that you create on the sandbox.

In the projectName folder, create a script Voice.py and copy-paste the code below. In the code, we are implementing a call in the following way:

1. Import the AfricasTalking gateway class installed cia pip.
2. Define the number(caller ID) that is dialing to the user.
3. Define the recipient of the call as a comma-separated list.
4. Create an instance of the Gateway class and pass in your API credentials
5. Call the call() method and pass in the caller number and the recipient number to initiate the call

#-> projectName/Voice.py

#import our API wrapper
from africastalking.AfricasTalkingGateway import AfricasTalkingGateway,AfricasTalkingGatewayException

#specify the caller ID
callFrom = "+254711082XYZ"

# Specify the numbers that you want to call
callTo = "+254711XXXYYY,+254733YYYZZZ"

# Create a new instance of gateway class
gateway = AfricasTalkingGateway(username, apikey, "sandbox")

try:
# Make the call
  results = gateway.call(callFrom, callTo)
  #see the results
  for result in results:
    # Only status "Queued" means the call was successfully placed
    print "Status : %s; phoneNumber : %s " % (result['status'],result['phoneNumber'])

Fire up the simulator, register the same number as the number in your script ('+254733YYYZZZ') and you should see the call appear in the simulator.

Run your code to interact with the simulator:

python Voice.py