A simple webscript.io script in lua that you can curl to alert you via text, sms, or phone when something completes. Eample curls: curl http://jnankin.webscript.io/alertme?target=YOUR_EMAIL&body=YOUR_BODY&subject=YOUR_OPTIONAL_SUBJECT curl http://jnankin.webscript.io/alertme?target=sms:YOUR_PHONE&body=YOUR_BODY curl http://jnankin.webscript.io/a…

gistfile1.lua

-- CONFIGURATION

-- mailgun
MAILGUN_APIKEY=''
MAILGUN_SUBDOMAIN=''

-- twilio
TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID = ''
TWILIO_AUTHTOKEN = ''
TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER = ''
WEBSCRIPTS_SUBDOMAIN = 'http://jnankin.webscript.io'





-- THE CODE

-- see if this is a twilio call request
if request.query.makeCall then
	return 200, string.format("<Response><Say>%s</Say><Hangup/></Response>", request.query.body)
end


-- get the target
target = request.query.target

if not target then
	return 403, "No target specfied.  Must be email address, sms:phoneNumber, or tel:phoneNumber"
end

if not request.query.body then
	return 403, "You must specify a body to send"
end

body = request.query.body

if not request.query.subject then
	subject = body
else
	subject = request.query.subject
end


function string.starts(String,Start)
   return string.sub(String,1,string.len(Start))==Start
end

if string.starts(target, "sms:") then
	http.request {
		url = string.format("https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/%s/SMS/Messages.json", TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID),
	  method = "POST",
		auth={TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID, TWILIO_AUTHTOKEN},
	  data = {
      Body=body,
      To=string.sub(target,5),
    	From=TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER,
		}
	}
	return 200, "texting..."
	
elseif string.starts(target, "tel:") then
	http.request {
		url = string.format("https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/%s/Calls.json", TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID),
	  method = "POST",
		auth={TWILIO_ACCOUNTSID, TWILIO_AUTHTOKEN},
	  data = {
			Url=string.format("%s%s?makeCall=1&body=%s", WEBSCRIPTS_SUBDOMAIN, request.path, body),
    	To=string.sub(target,5),
    	From=TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER,
		}
	}
	
	return 200, "calling..."
else
  --it must be an email address
	http.request {
		url = string.format("https://api.mailgun.net/v2/%s/messages", MAILGUN_SUBDOMAIN),
	  method = "POST",
		auth={'api', MAILGUN_APIKEY},
	  data = {
			from = target,
			to = target,
			subject = subject,
			text = body
		}
	}
	
	return 200, "emailed"
end

This looks great! Let me point you at a couple ways you can simplify the code:

1. alert.sms(text) and alert.email(text) can take care of the texting and emailing to the script owner. See https://www.webscript.io/documentation#alerts. (This only works for paid accounts, though.)
2. require 'twilio' makes it easier to use Twilio from Webscript. See, e.g., twilio.call in https://www.webscript.io/examples/flatterist.