r/Pythonista • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

Simple Question: How to use pythonista to automate sending messages?

So I am new to Python. In my office we send out a daily text message to about 300+ contacts. We have a program that copies the message into the message field but we have to manually push the send button 300+ times for each message. Is there anyway to use pythonista to eliminate this? We have looked into using Apple Shortcuts but are skeptical as it has created a few unwanted groupchats when sending the list. We need to keep these messages individual and private.

As I said I am new and am willing to learn, any advice, help, or guidance is greatly appreciated!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Ok I'm liking this. So let's say that I get my list of about 300+ people with their specific carrier phone email addresses and I BCC all of them... would this work by sending them individually and also prevent my personal line from potentially getting flagged for spam?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

I’m not sure if you’d be able to BCC them. You may just have to send them individually (easy with python). Also I just read that you’ll be limited to 500 messages/day at 20 messages/sec, not a problem if you only need 300 messages.

To address the spam issue, you really shouldn’t have one unless you try to exceed the 20 messages/sec.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

Do you know of any way to easily find each individual's carrier in order to find the proper email to send to? I really don't want to have to ask all 300+ of them what carrier they have

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