node-exotel-whitelist

In Exotel's system, you need to add your DND client's phone number, this process is called whitelisting. This package will be a great aid in the node environment to whitelist DND numbers. You can check whether a number has been whitelisted or not and also get metadata of a number.

Getting Started

First you have to create an account in https://my.exotel.com/auth/register, then you will get 'api_key','api_token' and 'sid'. These informations are most important to call all methods of this package.

Prerequisites

To install node-exotel-whitelist , you need node.js and npm.

Installing

Once you have that set-up, just run

npm install --save node-exotel-whitelist

in your project directory.

Usage

node-exotel-whitelist have four methods, and four of them return promise and needs a common set of parameters. That is,

urlOption = {
    apiKey          : // your exotel api key.
    apiToken        : // your exotel secret api Token.
    sId             : // your sid.
}
 
//require this package:
var exotel  = require('node-exotel-whitelist');
 

**actual responses from exotel are in XML, but in this package xml-js have been used to convert those XML response in JSON.

1. whiteListDetails : using it, one can check whether a number is whitelisted or not. it needs two parameters, 'urlOption','phoneNumber'.

    var details = exotel.whiteListDetails(urlOption, phoneNumber)
    details.then((response) => { // since it's return promise
        console.log(response)
    }).catch((err) => {
        console.error(err)
    }) 

1. whiteListANumber : this one is for whitelist a number. it recieves two parameters, 'urlOption' and 'numberInfo'

    let numberInfo = {
        virtualNumber        : // after registration in exotel, you get a virutal number;
        phoneNumber          : // that number you want to whitelist;
    }
    var whitelisted     = exotel.whiteListANumber(urlOption, numberInfo);
    

1. removeFromNumber : this one delete a list of whitelisted number, recieves two parameters, 'urlOption' and 'arrayOfPhone'.

    let arrayOfPhone = ['898XXXXXX2','7686XXXX21'];
    let removed      = exotel.removeFromWhiteList(urlOption,arrayOfPhone);
 

1. numberMetaData : this one provides meta data about a phone number ( Telecom Circle, Telecom Circle Name, Number Type Whether the number belongs to DND or not) recieves two parameters, 'urlOption' and 'phoneNumber'.

    let phoneNumber = '898XXXXX20';
    let metaData = exotel.numberMetaData(urlOption, phoneNumber)
 

*** All methods of this package returns Promise.

Authors

• Subha Chandra Das - SubhaChandraDas

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.