A simple Bottle web app for replying to SMS based on incoming HTTP POST requests from Twilio

reply-sms-bottle-app.py

from bottle import (post, request, response, route, run, )
from twilio import twiml


@route('/')
def check_app():
    # returns a simple string stating the app is working
    return "It works!"


@post('/twilio')
def inbound_sms():
    twiml_response = twiml.Response()
    # grab message from the request. could also get the "To" and 
    # "From" phone numbers as well from parameters with those names
    inbound_message = request.forms.get("Body")
    # we can now use the incoming message text in our Python application
    if inbound_message == "Hello":
        twiml_response.message("Hello from Bottle right back at you!")
    else:
        twiml_response.message("Hi! Not quite sure what you meant, but okay.")
    # we return back the mimetype because Twilio needs an XML response
    response.content_type = "application/xml"
    return str(twiml_response)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    run(host='127.0.0.1', port=5000, debug=True, reloader=True)