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Schedule a Message and Cancel It Before Send

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Recipe · 3 steps

Schedule a Message and Cancel It Before Send

with Twilio

Schedule a message, confirm it is scheduled, then cancel it.

  1. Schedule the message for future delivery through the messaging service.
  2. Fetch the message to confirm it is in the scheduled state before cancelling.
  3. Cancel the still-queued scheduled message by updating its status to canceled.
What you'll need to have ready
  • accountSid: The Twilio account SID (starts with AC).
  • to: Recipient phone number in E.164 format.
  • messagingServiceSid: SID (starts with MG) of the messaging service to schedule through.
  • body: The text content of the scheduled message.
  • sendAt: ISO 8601 time to send the scheduled message.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow twilio:schedule-and-cancel-message, 3 operations: createMessage → fetchMessage → updateMessage. Specs on APIs.io.