Go Celebrity Spotting made easy with the #twilio API for #whatsapp, #aws #rekognition and #ruby
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Did you know you can send and receive media using the Twilio API for WhatsApp? When I found out I wanted to make something fun with it, so why not combine it with AWS Rekognition to work out if I look like any celebrities?By the end of this post, you’ll know how to build an app that lets you send an image to a WhatsApp number, download the image, analyse the image with the AWS Rekognition API and respond to say whether there are any celebrities in the picture.What you’ll needTo build this application you’ll need a few things:A Twilio account, sign up for a free one hereAn AWS accountRuby and Bundler installedngrok to help us test our webhooksGot all that? Let’s get started then.Application basicsWhen Twilio receives a WhatsApp message it will send an HTTP request, a webhook, to a URL we provide. (...)