TryBuyNumber

Simple Twilio-backed US phone number acquisition module using Promises.

Attempts to acquire a phone number similar to one specfied according to the following rules:

1. The module accepts a phone number and tries to purchase another number in the same area code.
2. If no phone number is available in the same area code, it attempts to purchase a phone number which is in the same state as the input phone number.

Installation

$ npm install trybuynumber

Usage

This form assumes the Twilio environment variables (TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID & TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN) are appropriately set.

var tbn = require('trybuynumber');

tbn.purchasePhoneNumberAsync({nearPhoneNumber: '[phone]'})
  .then(function(purchasedNumber) {
    console.log('Yeay - I am proud owner of ' + purchasedNumber);
  })
  .catch(function(error) {
    console.error(error);
  });

Alternatively, you can specify the path to a JSON config file which contains different sets of credentials.

var trybuynumber = require('trybuynumber');
var tbn = new trybuynumber.TryBuyNumber('/path/to/config.json');

tbn.purchasePhoneNumberAsync({nearPhoneNumber: '[phone]'})
  .then(function(purchasedNumber) {
    console.log('Yeay - I am proud owner of ' + purchasedNumber);
  })
  .catch(function(error) {
    console.error(error);
  });

Config file format below:

{
    "creds": {
        "query": {
            "sid": "my_query_sid",
            "token": "my_query_token"
        },
        "buy": {
            "sid": "my_purchasing_sid",
            "token": "my_purchasing_token"
        }
    }
}

Notes

Though Twilio test credentials will authenticate, do not expect them to work for purchasing a number. Unless it is one of the "magic numbers", the purchase call with test credentials will always fail with a Twilio API error code.

Documentation

The generated class documentation can be found here.