Using Python for AGI scripting

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

Welcome to the forum!

Some background reading for you:

Using Dynamic Routes with an AGI file

One of the Source Type options for a Dynamic Route is to use an AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) script. It’s a way to hand off call control from Asterisk dialplan to a script written in a conventional programming language, and then come back to dialplan. You can do quite a bit with plain Asterisk dialplan functions and applications, but you can’t do everything so the AGI is the way to fill in the gaps. Suppose you want to make an API call that returns results in json, which then must processed …

Use Dynamic Routes to Execute a shell script

If you’ve had a chance to explore the features of Dynamic Routes, you will probably already have noted that an admin is able to dynamically branch call flow based on a result of a lookup source. Lookup sources are limited to SQL, a URL, an AGI file or an Asterisk variable. There’s no ability to use a local script as a lookup source. Or is there …? The Asterisk Variable lookup source is more useful than it might seem at first glance. The intended use of this feature (in its simplest form) is to …