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API to programmatically manipulate calls in progress


Jesse Howard

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I am looking through the API documentation and under "realtime call control" it offers information about how to handle/manage call flows, not realtime manipulation of active calls that have been answered by a device as I would expect from the name. Am I missing some keyword in my searching or is this truly not available?

Use case: with webhooks (soon to be websockets) I can get a screen pop of caller information and perform dips into a CRM on an inbound call to display account and recent case information. Ideally that popup also contains one-touch buttons to place the call on hold, park or transfer to the last rep etc. (similar to various existing SalesForce CTI integration apps).

Ultimately the question is: am I spinning my wheels as an API to accomplish this doesn't exist (yet?), or is my vocabulary lacking the correct terms when searching?
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I apologize as I didn't specify the hosted product however I still have a question with this answer.

Maybe it is missing in the documentation but the response seems to be suggesting that I can arbitrarily send DTMF digits from an application to simulate the end user pressing keys to trigger these events. Is that the implied response here?
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You can only call certain actions on /channels/ ('transfer', 'hangup', 'callflow'). 
Do you know how to do more stuff like start recording / hold etc ???

What I'm looking for is how to do everything by calling api from my server app and keep client app as lightweight as possible.
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You can only call certain actions on /channels/ ('transfer', 'hangup', 'callflow'). 
Do you know how to do more stuff like start recording / hold etc ???

What I'm looking for is how to do everything by calling api from my server app and keep client app as lightweight as possible.
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