flask-secret-santa

Telnyx-Python Secret Santa Generator

Sample application that automatically texts all participants in a secret santa their assigned person!

Pre-Reqs

You will need to set up:

• Telnyx Account
• Telnyx Phone Number
• Telnyx Messaging Profile
• Python & PIP installed

What you can do

• Launch site with form to submit multiple participants in Secret Santa
• Have the assignments automatically sent to each participant's phone number

Usage

The following environmental variables need to be set

Variable	Description
TELNYX_API_KEY	Your Telnyx API Key
TELNYX_PHONE NUMBER	Your Telnyx Phone Number
APP_PORT	Defaults to 5000 The port the app will be served

Requirements

This app uses several pip packages to execute. To install run the following:

$ pip install [requirement]

Requirements:

telnyx
os
random
phonenumbers
dotenv
flask

.env file

This app uses the excellent python-dotenv package to manage environment variables.

Make a copy of .env.sample and save as .env and update the variables to match your creds.

TELNYX_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
TELNYX_NUMBER="YOUR_TELNYX_NUMBER"
APP_PORT=5000

Install

Run the following commands to get started

$ git clone https://github.com/d-telnyx/demo-python-telnyx.git

Run

Start the server python main.py

Once everything is setup, you should now be able to:

• Run the server and access it at localhost:PORT (i.e. localhost:5000)
• Add participants to the secret santa and have their pairs generated
• Have texts sent to all participants informing them who they are buying presents for!

Happy Holidays!