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jason7082 asked John Wang Deactivated commented

Programmatically dial a number

Hi,


I'm new to the Ring Central developer community - although my company has been using Ring Central for a while now.


We are investigating ways to programmatically dial the telephone number of a new lead from our Ring Central number.


Reviewing the API docs, the best option I can see there is the RingOut service, where-by the from number is one of our Ring Central numbers and the to number is that of the lead. From my understanding the ring-out will call our number and the to number, and connect the 2 once they are answered.


Is this the correct understanding of the service and could it meet our requirements?


Many thanks,

Jason





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brandon-hein answered John Wang Deactivated commented
My company recently completed a task similar to this.  We used the RingOut Api functionality to accomplish this goal.  Be mindful of the number of RingOut Requests you will be making per minute.  There's a set number of api hits you can make per minute.  I highly recommend reading up on the documentation around that specific api, so you don't get bogged down having to wait during the throttle period.
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Thanks Brandon.

I'll dig a bit deeper into the documentation for this API - I just wanted to confirm that this achievable before we spent too much time on this.

Since you've had experience with this before, can you tell me - how is the best way to be able to test this? Currently I only have one sandbox account. Do we need to 2 to be able to test the from and to numbers?

Many thanks,
Jason
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John Wang avatar image John Wang ♦♦ commented ·

Hi Jason,


You only need 1 sandbox account. You can make calls by either:


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Tyler Liu answered
Yes the ringout API will work. You can also use the web-phone SDK  https://github.com/ringcentral/ringcentral-web-phone which allows you to make phone calls directly from your browser.
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Using the RingCentral Phone for Desktop, you can dial or receive test calls, send and receive test SMS or Fax messages in your sandbox environment.

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