How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by problems on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:00PM (#14620704)

Yeah, this isn't really a major Twilio win or a hack - it's a basic scraping technique.

I found a house for myself and a friend in a similar way, reverse engineer mobile app from MLS, scrape all listings once a day to get new stuff as it hits the market and you can now be far more selective than the crappy search on the MLS site allows.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by hbk1966 on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:02PM (#14620721)

Yeah you can sends texts to your phone just like sending an email.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by murukesh_s on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:08PM (#14620772)

How to do that?

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by KekDemaga on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:57PM (#14621229)

Put the phone number in front of a domain for each carrier, a list is here.

https://github.com/WilliamFCipriano/FreeSMS/blob/master/data...

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by pbhjpbhj on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:50PM (#14622218)

There are several international lists too, here's a couple:

https://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways...

https://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by icebraining on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:35PM (#14622547)

Do they work? For Portugal it still lists Telecel - which hasn't existed since '99.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by KekDemaga on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:36PM (#14623952)

My list is accurate as of a year or so ago, or at least they don't bounce back when you send an email to them.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by murukesh_s on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:25PM (#14621445)

Thanks, this hack (if it's a hack) looks interesting.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by toomuchtodo on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:25PM (#14622027)

It works, but know that it is nowhere as reliable as an SMS sent through a carrier's gateway.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by michalskop on Friday June 23, 2017 @08:47PM (#14623800)

I am using Telegram for such notifications. I made a simple Telegram bot, it does not do anything itself, I just use it as a sender of my messages to my phone. And I have a particular web address, which collects requests from any of my scripts and it just resends it (it is a simple python script) through the bot to me.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by aisofteng on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:53PM (#14621191)

You can check Twilio's website for information.

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Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Pyt... by linkregister on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:31PM (#14622961)

Which MLS mobile app are you referring to?

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