Free push notifications Workaround

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Hey @Manan_Mehta! How is the workaround with WhatsApp?

Thanks!

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I am going to be posting a video about this very soon!

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@Manan_Mehta thank you!

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Thanks for this! I am going to try it out. But, i just wanted to ask - After I set up my messages, my phone (an Android), got an alert for like 10 different messages (via private chat feature) but then it stop alerting me. Was this a fluke or what? Please explain. If it was, I will forsure be using your tips.

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Hi @Drearystate. No longer valid. It was actual more than 10yr ago

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@Drearystate I just realized with this process, we would need to get users phone number and ask them for their carrier? Is that correct? Is all of this possible with just using their login email?

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Thy can receive email’s as notifications instead of texts. But I just have users edit their info and add their carrier from a drop down list as well as their phone number. But it can be done by email only.

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I’ve been asking for it via choice component. BUT @Drearystate or any other guru with scripting (@ThinhDinh?) —any way we could leverage a service like https://www.freecarrierlookup.com/ to determine the carrier domain automatically???

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This looks somewhat promising:
https://numverify.com/documentation

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Ok. I may just do the phone number. Would this enable users to reply back to the text?

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no

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Hi Robert, I tried creating an account at numverify, combine it with ImportJSON (linked below) and was able to extract multiple types of information about each number.

I use my own access_key in that link, so please sign up at https://numverify.com/ and change it in cell B1 before you trial yourself.

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Quick look for people on what it can return.

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:open_mouth:

How in the world did you do that so fast?! You are a wizard. Is there a good demo/tutorial of importJSON?

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Nothing much Robert, just copy the full code here as a new script file, then you can use ImportJSON as a function in Sheets.

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Hey @Drearystate,

Can you point me to the direction where I can find the email sms email setting for Venezuela?

Thanks!

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Difficult @SantiagoPerez

I already searched and tried this months ago but no successful.

Movistar removed that service years ago but I think that Digitel is still using but for internal use only.

If you send an email using Digitel format, the email is sent without error but no SMS is received… :no_mouth:

Saludos

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Thanks @gvalero!

It was worth trying.

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This works well i currently use it in my apps for free. when users sign up i ask them to select their carrier, this way i don’t have to search for it. . then i run a lookup from my carrier table that has all the possible gateway extensions. easy and free. no code needed.

Caveat: some carriers like Att will block your msg if it contains a url so be careful.

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