1.0.7 • Published 3 years ago

africastalking-client v1.0.7

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MIT
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Last release
3 years ago

AfricasTalking Client SDK

Provides convenient access to the Africa's Talking Voice APIs from your web apps.

Documentation

Take a look at the API docs here.

Install

NPM (Recommended)

You can install the package from npm by running:

$ npm install --save africastalking-client

You can import the method like so:

import Africastalking from 'africastalking-client'

CDN

The SDK is also accessible via our hosted cdn which can be included into your web page using the <script> tag

<script src="https://unpkg.com/africastalking-client@1.0.6/build/africastalking.js"></script>

You can access the global variable Africastalking from your browser.

Capability Token

You need to instantiate your client with a capability token. It is generated by making an API POST request from to https://webrtc.africastalking.com/capability-token/request with the following parameters:

Request Parameters

NB: API requests require an apiKey in your request header for authentication.

ParametersDescription
usernameStringRequiredYour Africa’s Talking application username
clientNameStringRequiredYour unique name used to identify and call your browser client(without space characters)
phoneNumberStringRequiredYour Africa’s Talking phone number (in international format i.e. +254XXXYYY)
incomingBooleanOptionalEnable the client to recieve incoming calls. Defaults to true
outgoingBooleanOptionalEnable the client to make outgoing calls. Defaults to true
expireStringOptionalPeriod of time it takes the token to expire, in seconds. Default is 86400s

API Response

{
    "clientName": "somsom",
    "incoming": true,
    "lifeTimeSec": "86400",
    "outgoing": true,
    "token": "ATCAPtkn_206675b68efaff83d1ac2d027dd5bff18fd7cb64fgjhd5d0bdcsac44a883678afe7"
}

Usage

You can then initialize the client using the token.

const client = new Africastalking.Client(token)

Events

client.on('incomingcall', function (params) {
    alert(`${params.from} is calling you`)
}, false);

client.on('hangup', function (hangupCause) {
    alert(`Call hung up (${hangupCause.code} - ${hangupCause.reason})`)
}, false);

Event Types

EventsDescription
readyClient is ready to make or recieve calls
notreadyClient cant make or recieve calls,
callingYour client is making a call
incomingcallYour client is recieving a call
callacceptedCall has been accepted
hangupCall has ended
offlineToken has expired
closedConnection to africastalking servers closed

Methods

$("button").click(function() { 
    client.call("+254XXXXXYYY"); 
}); 

$("button").click(function() { 
    client.dtmf("1"); 
}); 

$("button").click(function() { 
    client.muteAudio(); 
}); 

Client Methods

methodsDescription
callMake a call to a phone number or browser client
answerAnswer a call
hangupEnd an ongoing call
dtmfpass dtmf digits to Africastalking API
muteAudioDisables audio media sent during a call
unmuteAudioEnable audio media sent during a call
holdPuts a call on-hold
unholdResumes a call
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