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This view is one example why I love living in this valley

A recent client project lead me to an interesting problem, normally for retrieving a call recording in twilio, you would store info afterwards, but some calls, that’s not an option. If it’s a recording between two people, like say, a customer and a sales person to review later, you simply set:

<dial record=true>phone number</dial>

There’s no option there to tell it to forward to another URL afterwards, and the tests that I tried using the action argument ended up failing. So here we were, we had the SID for the call, but no recording. Solution? Build a quick function to search the recordings based on call SID using the api… My only problem, the twilio php api doesn’t include an easy way to get recordings, it lets grab call logs, but that’s it. So my answer was to write this function:

function getRecording($caSID){
    $version = '2010-04-01';
    $sid = "[YOUR API ID]";
    $token = "[YOUR AUTH TOKEN]";
    $url = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{$sid}/Calls/{$caSID}/Recordings.xml";
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "{$sid}:{$token}");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $output = simplexml_load_string($output);
    echo "<table>";
    foreach ($output->Recordings->Recording as $recording) {
        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<td>".$recording->Durection." seconds</td>";
        echo "<td>".$recording->DateCreated."</td>";
        echo '<td><audio src="https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/'.$sid.'/Recordings/'.$recording->Sid.'.mp3" controls preload="auto" autobuffer></audio></td>';
        echo "</tr>";
    }
    echo "</table>";
}
getRecordings("ENTER YOUR CALL SID HERE");
exit;

When called, getRecordings will display a table with recordings for the call in question, Ideally, it would be only one recording, but that all depends on how you’ve set up the rest of the call. Tested it on a couple projects now, and it’s worked well, so enjoy.

Last week was Wordcamp San Francisco, and Matt Mullenweg, one of the original creators of Wordpress, spoke gave a keynote title “State of the Word 2011”, and here it is.

This has been an exciting week for TheInterviewr.com, it got picked up by some popular websites and gained some interest out on the web. Some of the sites that have featured TheInterviewr.com:

• Lifehacker.com: TheInterviewr Records, Schedules Your Interviews and Other Phone Calls

  There are a few ways of recording phone calls—Skype, a third-party jailbreak app on your iPhone, a digital voice recorder with a headphone adapter, incoming Google Voice calls—but none have been as easy as using TheInterviewr. The webapp lets you schedule interviews, upload documents you’ll use for that interview, and best of all, record it automatically.

• ReadWriteWeb.com: TheInterviewr: A Really Easy, Fast, Free Way to Record Telephone Interviews

  TheInterviewr is a new mashup that makes it super, super simple to record telephone interviews online using your existing telephone. It is a dream come true and for now at least - it’s free.

Since Tuesday night, I’ve seen over 400 new users, and have handled over 200 interviews.  And from conversations with users, I’ve also begun fleshing out the next version of the site, which will have more features for users to use.