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s.mihai
Asked: 2009-06-24 13:13:02 +0800 CST

How can i send a SMS via an API

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How can i send an international SMS (or place a call) with a HTTPS request?
What reliable service providers do you know / use?
I want to use a SMS service instead of a hardware aproach.

monitoring sms

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    We've had good service from Clickatell, who are based in South Africa. They have APIs via several different methods including https and smtp.

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  2. I am in Australia and have used Clickatell before from a rails application via API as well as via smtp from nagios. No problems in the past 12 months.

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  3. MX Telecom provide a pretty good service in EMEA and NA using a simple HTTP[S] GET interface.

    Usual features such as originator address, flash messages, multipart and delivery reports are included.

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  4. There is another provider with an HTTPS API called TextMagic. They provide wrapper libraries for their HTTPS API in a number of languages.

    (Full disclosure: I am the author of the Python wrapper library at textmagic-sms-api-python)

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  5. The TextMagic API allow you to send sms messages to landline phones too? If not, you can add this feature to the system. See text2land.com

    Mike

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