GoogleVoice::Api¶ ↑

Gem for interacting with Google Voice (www.google.com/voice/)

Install¶ ↑

gem install googlevoiceapi

Usage¶ ↑

This gem provides a class for your application, GoogleVoice::Api. This class can be initialized with your Google Account credentials provided you have access to the Google Voice. Then you can use your object to interact with the features of Google Voice, such as placing calls, sending text messages, and viewing account history.

You create your object this way:

require 'googlevoiceapi'
api = GoogleVoice::Api.new('[email protected]', 'password')

To send a text message, you would do the following:

api.sms('1234567890', 'This is my text message')

The method will properly encode the message for you and send it to the phone number you specify.

To place a call, you would similarly do the following:

api.call('1234567890', '1235551234')

The first number is the number to call, and the second number is the forwarding number, a number on your Google Voice account that will ring first before it places the call to your remote recipient.

There is also a cancel() method that will cancel a pending call that has not been answered yet. To cancel a call in progress, just hang up your phone (duh!).

There are also methods that provide you access to your inbox, sms and call history, voicemail, etc. The methods look like this:

xml_data = api.inbox_xml()

The available methods include: inbox_xml, starred_xml, all_xml, spam_xml, trash_xml, voicemail_xml, sms_xml, trash_xml, recorded_xml, placed_xml, received_xml, and missed_xml

More information on the pseudo-API we have to work with currently with Google Voice can be found here:

http://posttopic.com/topic/google-voice-add-on-development

Tests¶ ↑

This gem provides a set of RSpec tests along with it, but since you have to run the tests with a valid username/password, I have abstracted out any sensitive information into spec/rspec_config.yml. Copy the example file spec/example.rspec_config.yml over and make the necessary changes before running the test suite with “rake spec” or else you won’t get any passing tests.

License¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Tim Gourley

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.