Wrapping around the new google voice API?

[tobocop2]

@jaraco

So this is not an issue at all, but I've been depending on this module to send and receive messages inside of weechat. However, the old API does not support group messages fully. It can only receive messages and not send. In order to send, one needs to use the new google voice API.

In an absolutely quick and dirty attempt to get group messages working, I "reverse engineered" the "send/receive portions

You can see the implementation as proof of concept here:

Send SMS with new API

Inside of

send_sms, get_sms

The good about moving to the new API

• The new google voice API seems nice and modern and returns json payloads
• No longer a need to parse html and can remove beautiful soup dependency
• Potentially faster response times
• An API key can now be passed around instead of logging in with plain text auth (I think...that is how I am doing it now)

The bad

• This package would basically need to be re-written to wrap around the new API
• Authentication might be more complicated (I haven't dug into the source here much so it might be of similar complexity)
• The request post body is strangely formatted.

[jaraco]

I'd be enthusiastically in support of this change. I won't have time to work on it, but I'd gladly accept pull requests and help guide a new release with this functionality.

[tobocop2]

@jaraco
I will start taking a stab at it.

[tobocop2]

@jaraco

So I managed to figure out how to make the code referenced in my initial post almost dynamic. I managed to figure out how the SAPISID hash was being generated from the client side and I figured out the bare essential headers that were necessary to send over with the request. I updated the link to point to the current implementation.

The only thing that I have not figured out is how to retrieve the API key dynamically. It's very easy to obtain and is part of the query string on every request POST when sending a message. I still need to do some digging to get the key.

If this is possible, I wll then start figuring out how to port over functionality to the new API. At the very least, I will add support for receiving and sending SMS with tne new api as that is likely the most important feature of this module (in my opinion)

[jeremysmiley]

@tobocop2
Would you mind sharing where you found the info an the google voice API? I've been looking but don't see any mention of it anywhere. Thanks!

[tobocop2]

@jeremysmiley
It's not a public API, I just played around with the developer console and figured out how to send and receive SMS with the new API. My issue however is the requirement of a private API key that must be sent with every request in addition to all of the previous headers. I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to dynamically retreive that API key but haven't had much more time to dig into it. My code currently relies on the fact that I copied my API key from one of my outgoing requests that I saw in the developer console.

[jeremysmiley]

Interesting, thanks for the info. I'm looking for a solution for our small biz. We use Google Voice for our business line and it would be awesome if I could setup a zapier automation to send out automated sms messages for follow-ups and reminders for our clients. Right now we use a Twilio number to do this but it would be ideal to use the same number throughout all of our communication.

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[tobocop2]

@jeremysmiley

You should have no problems using this python package as is to do what you are trying to do. It works fine for the use case that you just described. I only opted to figure out how the new API works (to a degree) because I couldn't send group messages to friends.

[jeremysmiley]

Nice. Thank you.

[jeremysmiley]

Can you tell me where you found the new API info? I looked in the developers section and there A LOT of APIs I don't anything pertaining to voice.

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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 6:01 PM Tobias ***@***.*** wrote: @jeremysmiley <https://github.com/jeremysmiley> You should have no problems using this python package as is to do what you are trying to do. It works fine for the use case that you just described. I only opted to figure out how the new API works (to a degree) because I couldn't send group messages to friends. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Asrzm8lVLQ3AUO-_Fu8KuOqhXxY0hv8Bks5vE84OgaJpZM4Zg1T9> .

[tobocop2]

@jeremysmiley

There is no official API. The authors of this python package reverse engineered the now legacy version of google voice.

In order to programmatically use google voice, the simplest solution is to use this wrapper.You will not find API info for google voice. The official google voice API is obfuscated and undocumented externally and the service is not intended to be used like Twilio. However, thanks to this package, one is able to use google voice similarly to the python twilio api wrapper. Just bare in mind, that the legacy version of google voice may one day be taken down (doesn't seem likely though) and this package will no longer be functional whereas the Twilio python sdk will likely work the same and be reliable moving forward.

[jeremysmiley]

Thanks.

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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 10:20 PM Tobias ***@***.*** wrote: @jeremysmiley <https://github.com/jeremysmiley> There is no official API. The authors of this python package reverse engineered the now legacy version of google voice. In order to programmatically use google voice, the simplest solution is to use this wrapper.You will not find API info for google voice. The official google voice API is obfuscated and undocumented externally and the service is not intended to be used like Twilio. However, thanks to this package, one is able to use google voice similarly to the python twilio api wrapper. Just bare in mind, that the legacy version of google voice may one day be taken down (doesn't seem likely though) and this package will no longer be functional whereas the Twilio python sdk will likely work the same and be reliable moving forward. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Asrzm8LYv-wHKWYrPSxLujVeawi6QeCYks5vFArKgaJpZM4Zg1T9> .

[slow-quick]

@tobocop2 Somehow the googlevoice package no longer works for me. I've checked all my GV settings and couldn't think of any changes. It has a login issue.

I would like to try your "new api" approach but it seems need an "api_key" in addition to my email and password. How do I get that api_key?
Thakks!