How to submit a POST request to the Calls resource? (making outgoing calls in Twilio)

Question

I'm having trouble with making outgoing calls using Twilio and I believe I skipped this step where I should submit a POST request to the Calls resource. I don't really understand what to do with this and I need someone to explain it for me since I'm just a beginner. And by the way, my Twilio account is just free trial. Does this have something to do as to why I can't make local calls?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Twilio developer evangelist here.

Best place for you to start would be the Python making calls quick start. Follow that tutorial through and you should understand how to make a call with Python.

Though, as you say, the key is the POST request to the calls resource. It's easiest to perform this using our Python helper library and looks a bit like this:

from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient

# Get these credentials from http://twilio.com/user/account
account_sid = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
auth_token = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
client = TwilioRestClient(account_sid, auth_token)

# Make the call
call = client.calls.create(to="+14085551234",  # Any phone number
                           from_="+12125551234", # Must be a valid Twilio number
                           url="http://twimlets.com/holdmusic?Bucket=com.twilio.music.ambient") # Just plays hold music

Let me know if that helps at all.