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Google Sheets comes with a JavaScript-based language called Apps Script. In this tutorial we’ll use Apps Script to send SMS messages to phone numbers stored in a Google spreadsheet. The steps take less than ten minutes to complete — even if you’ve never written a line of code.

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You may also be interested in How to Clean Up and Validate Phone Numbers in a Google Spreadsheet. With that tutorial, you can figure out which phone numbers in your spreadsheet can receive a text message before trying to send it.

The Twilio Bits

You’ll need a free Twilio account. If you don’t have one, sign up for an account here. You can do everything in this tutorial with a trial account, though you’ll be restricted to sending text messages to only your cellphone. (If you upgrade your account, $20 buys you about 2,500 text messages in the United States. Full SMS pricing can be found here).

Once you have a Twilio account, buy an SMS enabled Twilio phone number.Then go to your Programmable SMS dashboard and click Show API Credentials. Wartune online balens generator.

Keep your phone number and credentials handy. We’ll be pasting them into our code in a minute.

The Google Bits

Go to your Google Drive and create a new spreadsheet. Create column headings for:

• Phone Number
• Message Body
• Status

Add two rows with a phone number and message body. Preface your phone number with a ' (single tick) to tell the spreadsheet that the cell is a string (you can also format the column as “Plain Text”). To avoid spamming friends and family, you may want to use your cellphone number twice. Leave the status blank.

With our data in place, we’re ready to write some code. Click Tools -> Script Editor.

The rest of this post walks you through the code to send text messages from the spreadsheet. If you’re the type of person that likes to skip to the end of the mystery novel — or you just don’t have time for all that learning stuff — here’s the final product (take note of the placeholders for Account SID, Auth Token and Twilio Phone Number):

If you want to see how we arrived at that result, carry on.

Send an SMS from App Script

We’ll write this code in two steps:

1. Write a sendSms function to send a single SMS.
2. Write a sendAll function to run sendSms on every phone number and message body in the spreadsheet.

Replace the two lines of code in your script with:

Replace that (312)313-1434 with your cell phone number.

The job of sendSms Autocad software 2015 free download with crack. is to make an HTTP POST request to the Twilio Messaging API. You don’t need to know what that means to complete this tutorial, but you can think of it as submitting a “Send an Text Message” form with the fields of To, From, Body, Account SID, Auth Token.

All the code in this step goes inside the sendSms function. Define the URL for the Twilio Messaging API.

Replace the YOURACCOUNTSID placeholder with your Account SID from the dashboard.

Define a “payload” describing your text message that uses the parameters of the sendSms function for the to and body.

Replace the YOURTWILIONUMBER placeholder with your Twilio phone number.

Create an options hash to tell Apps Script that this is a POST request that uses the payload:

Add headers to options to authorize the request with your Account SID and Auth Token from the dashboard:

Finally, execute your HTTP request.

Save your file and run your script. You’ll be prompted to authorize your app the first time you run it. If everything goes well, your phone will light up with the message.

Send text messages from the spreadsheet

It’s not terribly practical to hardcode phone numbers into our script. Let’s add a function to read the phone number and message body from the spreadsheet, then pass that data to sendSms.

Replace what we’ve got in myFunctionwith:

Immediately above myFunction (and below sendSms), create the sendAllfunction. The rest of the code goes here.

Fetch the data from your spreadsheet:

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Paste the code below that will:

• iterate through the data
• try to send an SMS to the phone number ( row[0]) with the message body ( row[1])
• if the request is successful, set a status of “sent”
• if the request throws an error, log the error and set status to “error”
• update the status column accordingly

Run your app again! You’ll need to reauthorize it since it’s now trying to access your spreadsheet as well.

Onward

Google Sheets and Apps Script provide a surprising amount of functionality for a programming language that requires no installation or configuration. If you found this useful, you may want to check out the How to Clean Up and Validate Phone Numbers in a Google Spreadsheet with which you could validate an entire spreadsheet full of phone numbers and answer questions like “is this a cellphone or a landline?”.

If you’d like to learn more about the Messaging API, check out these docs:

If you’ve got any questions or come up with any cool use cases for sending texts from a spreadsheet, I’d love to hear about it. You can find me at gb@twilio.com or @greggyb.

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Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer 1.30 can now pull SMS (text) messages straight off the cloud, and offers enhanced location processing with support for Routes and Places. In this article, we’ll have a close look at the new features and get detailed instructions on how to use them. The first article will discuss the text messages, while enhanced location data will be covered in the one that follows.

Text Messages: Part of Android Backups (sort of)

Before we begin extracting text messages, let us check where they come from. As you may know, Android 6.0 has finally brought automated data backups. While Android backups are not nearly as complete or as comprehensive as iOS backups, they still manage to save the most important things such as device settings, the list of installed apps and app data into the cloud. Being a Google OS, Android makes use of the user’s Google Account to store backups. Unlike Apple, Google does not count the space taken by these backups towards your Google Drive allotment. At the same time, Google allows for a very limited data set to be saved into the cloud, so you can forget about multi-gigabyte backups you have probably seen in iOS.

While device settings, Wi-Fi passwords, the list of installed apps and application data are now backed up on most smartphones running Android 6 and newer, some devices have an additional element to save. We’re talking about text messages (SMS) sent and received by the users. Text messages can be stored in the user’s Google Account as parts of device backups. However, up to these days, this wonderful feature was available exclusively on Google Pixel and Pixel XL.

Things are beginning to change as Google works its way through Android updates. According to Google development team, “SMS messages are currently only backed up through the Google Backup Transport (GMSBackupTransport) on Pixel devices, as listed here: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7179901

SMS backup will also be supported on all devices starting in O, which is now available for preview”.

In simple words, it means that automatic SMS backups are coming to Android O, and currently available on all Pixel and Pixel XL handsets even if they run Android 7.

Unlike call logs, text messages don’t get the nearly real-time syncing across devices; instead, they are included into cloud backups that are updated daily at most. If more than one device is registered with the same Google Account, each device backup may contain text messages. This in turn means that extracting those text messages from the cloud could potentially return more data compared to logical or physical acquisition of a single device.

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We updated Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer to be able to pull SMS communication history from online backups created by smartphones running Android 6 and newer. Let’s have a look at how this works.

Extracting Text Messages with Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer

Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer 1.30 or newer is required to extract text messages from the Google Account. In order to download text messages, do the following:

1. Launch Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer 1.30 (or newer)
2. Click File – Add Google Snapshot
3. Authenticate into the Google Account by providing the user name and password
4. If Two-Factor Authentication is enabled, you will be prompted for a secondary authentication code.
   Note: Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer 1.30 has a known issue authenticating with 6-digit authentication codes generated by the Authenticator app if Google Prompt is enabled. If Google Prompt is activated as a 2FA method of choice on a given Google Account, you will have to manually generate a set of backup codes for that Google Account. You will have to then use one of those 8-digit codes to complete authentication.
5. Once the authentication is completed, select Messages.
6. Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer will download the data from the Google Account. This may take a few minutes depending on the number of Android backups stored in that Google Account.
7. Once the download is finished, you’ll be able to review the messages.
8. If more than one device backup with text messages is available, you’ll be able to specify which device(s) to include by enabling a filter on the navigation panel on the right side of the screen. If more than one device is selected, you’ll be able to use searching and filtering through all messages obtained from multiple devices.

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