rickroll – About Things | A Hans Scharler Blog https://nothans.com Life, Comedy, Games, Tech, Marketing, and Community Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:12:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/nothans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-settings.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 rickroll – About Things | A Hans Scharler Blog https://nothans.com 32 32 114568856 Twilio Rickrolls You Using Their API https://nothans.com/twilio-rickrolls-you-using-their-api https://nothans.com/twilio-rickrolls-you-using-their-api#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:14:45 +0000 http://nothans.com/?p=982 I have worked with the Twilio API for a few projects. I have used Twilio to call me when disk space is running low on a server or to call my house and request its status. Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform for sending and receiving text messages or placing phone calls. Twilio is wrapped up nicely with a RESTful API, so ThingSpeak or MATLAB can use it without much setup.

Tonight, I was following a beginner tutorial that I wrote using Twilio and ThingSpeak. I noticed that their voice example plays a friendly greeting, and then, by surprise, Twilio starts playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” for the world’s geekiest rickroll.

Twilio’s example points to this URL: https://demo.twilio.com/docs/voice.xml.

If you look closer, you will see the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response>
    <Say voice="alice">Thanks for trying our documentation. Enjoy!</Say>
    <Play>http://demo.twilio.com/docs/classic.mp3</Play>
</Response>

Go ahead and click: http://demo.twilio.com/docs/classic.mp3

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