Script for texting yourself a photo using your Raspberry Pi, Twilio, Cloudinary and Thinged.io

take_photo_and_send.py

import subprocess
from twilio.rest import Client

import cloudinary
import cloudinary.uploader
import cloudinary.api

# put your own credentials here
twilio_account_sid = ""
twilio_auth_token = ""
twilio_client = Client(twilio_account_sid, twilio_auth_token)
twilio_from_number = ""

cloudinary_cloud_name = ""
cloudinary_api_key = ""
cloudinary_api_secret = "-"
cloudinary.config(cloud_name = cloudinary_cloud_name, api_key = cloudinary_api_key , api_secret = cloudinary_api_secret)


phone_number = ""
message = "Hello from Thinged.io"

def take_photo(name):
    take_photo_command = 'raspistill -v -o ' + name
    process = subprocess.Popen(take_photo_command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    process.wait()

def upload_photo_to_cloudinary(file_name):
    response = cloudinary.uploader.upload(file_name,tags="rpi")
    return response['url']

def send_mms(to, message, media_url):
    twilio_client.messages.create(
                       to=to,
                       from_=twilio_from_number,
                       body=message,
                       media_url=media_url)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    photo_name = 'gears_big_400.png'
    photo_location = take_photo(photo_name)
    public_url = upload_photo_to_cloudinary(photo_name)
    send_mms(phone_number, message, public_url)