Textbelt as a user-facing public service

[typpo]

Create a form that allows users to send texts directly from the website.

[daluu]

FYI, for adding a CAPTCHA, we can use this perhaps: https://www.google.com/recaptcha

[daluu]

FYI, if this is just about offering UI/GUI front ends to Textbelt, I already made some a while back, as browser extensions, etc. You can point folks to them:

https://github.com/daluu/textbelt-clients/wiki/Textbelt-clients%2C-installation-and-download

note that this probably enforces rate limiting at the user/client side (user's own public IP per their ISP).

[typpo]

Agreed this would be great. Hoping someone makes a pull request for this :)

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 3:36 PM David Luu [email protected] wrote:

FYI, if this is just about offering UI/GUI front ends to Textbelt, I
already made some a while back, as browser extensions, etc. You can point
folks to them:

https://github.com/daluu/textbelt-clients/wiki/Textbelt-clients%2C-installation-and-download

note that this probably enforces rate limiting at the user/client side
(user's own public IP per their ISP).

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[daluu]

It looks like @esmith-ssd did some work but didn't make a formal pull request? Or did it incorrectly.

As for my UI clients, I had those as a separate project, think it better to have separate than be a core part of Textbelt. But users of Textbelt API who are using self hosting option are welcome to customize those clients for a self hosted version as I have them pointed to the public service by default.

[esmith-ssd]

@daluu It was a failed attempt at a pull request to the original project. It is an AJAX front end application (very basic), that makes a POST call to the web service and returns the response. I just confirmed that it is still working. It could be quickly altered to take advantage of #47 (adding carrier). However, it may not be viable with the CAPTCHA, since it is all on the client side. I removed the css links but verified, at the time of submission, that the css from the main textbelt website would make it look "pretty".