Send SMS Text Messages

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS text message to any phone number. Businesses send text messages to notify customers about recent information, send alerts, and provide delivery status updates, among other use cases.You can start sending SMS messages either by using our PHLO visual workflow builder or our APIs. Follow the instructions in one of the tabs below.

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

To get started, you need a Plivo account — sign up with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a Node.js development environment.

Create the send SMS application

Create a file called send_sms.js and paste into it this code.

var plivo = require('plivo');
(function main() {
    'use strict';
    var client = new plivo.Client("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
    client.messages.create(
      { 
          src: "<sender_id>", 
          dst: "<destination_number>",
          text: "Hello, from Node.js!",
      }
      ).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });
})();

Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the Plivo console. Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in E.164 format (for example, +12025551234). In countries other than the US and Canada you can use a sender ID for the message source. You must have a Plivo phone number to send messages to the US or Canada; you can buy a Plivo number from Phone Numbers > Buy Numbers on the Plivo console or via the Numbers API.

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

node send_sms.js

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Create a file called send_sms.rb and paste into it this code.

require "plivo"
include Plivo

api = RestClient.new("<auth_id>","<auth_token>")
response = api.messages.create(
    src:"<sender_id>",
    dst:"<destination_number>",
    text:"Hello, from Ruby!"
  )
  puts response

Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the Plivo console. Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in E.164 format] (for example, +12025551234). In countries other than the US and Canada you can use a sender ID for the message source. You must have a Plivo phone number to send messages to the US or Canada; you can buy a Plivo number from Phone Numbers > Buy Numbers on the Plivo console or via the Numbers API.

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use ENV to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

ruby send_sms.rb

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Create a file called send_sms.py and paste into it this code.

import plivo

client = plivo.RestClient('<auth_id>','<auth_token>')
response = client.messages.create(
    src='<sender_id>',
    dst='<destination_number>',
    text='Hello, from Python!',)
print(response)

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use os module(os.environ) to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

$ python send_sms.py

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Create a file called SendSMS.php and paste into it this code.

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Plivo\RestClient;
$client = new RestClient("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");
$response = $client->messages->create(
     [  
        "src" => "<sender_id>",
        "dst" => "<destination_number>",
        "text"  =>"Hello, from PHP!"
     ]
);
print_r($response);
?>

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use ENV to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

php SendSMS.php

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

In Visual Studio, in the CS project, open the file Program.cs and paste into it this code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Plivo;

namespace PlivoExamples
{
    internal class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var api = new PlivoApi("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");
            var response = api.Message.Create(
                src: "<sender_id>",
                dst: "<destination_number>",
                text: "Hello, from .NET!"
                );
            Console.WriteLine(response);
        }
    }
}

Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the Plivo console. Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in E.164 format(for example, +12025551234). In countries other than the US and Canada you can use a sender ID for the message source. You must have a Plivo phone number to send messages to the US or Canada; you can buy a Plivo number from Phone Numbers > Buy Numbers on the Plivo console or via the Numbers API.

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use the Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable method to store environment variables and Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable to fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Create a Java class called SendSMS and paste into it this code.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Collections;

import com.plivo.api.Plivo;
import com.plivo.api.exceptions.PlivoRestException;
import com.plivo.api.models.message.Message;
import com.plivo.api.models.message.MessageCreateResponse;

class SendSMS
{
    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
        Plivo.init("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");
            MessageCreateResponse response = Message.creator("<sender_id>","<destination_number>",
                    "Hello, from Java!")
                    .create();
            System.out.println(response);
    }
}

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use <a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/env.html">System.getenv()</a> to store and retrieve environment variables when initializing the client.

Test

Overview

Using API

Here’s how to use Plivo APIs to send outbound SMS text messages.

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Create a file called SendSMS.go and paste into it this code.

package main

import "fmt"
import "github.com/plivo/plivo-go/v7"

func main() {
	client, err := plivo.NewClient("<auth_id>","<auth_token>", &plivo.ClientOptions{})
	if err != nil {
			fmt.Print("Error", err.Error())
			return
		}
	response, err := client.Messages.Create(
		plivo.MessageCreateParams{
			Src: "<sender_id>",
			Dst: "<destination_number>",
			Text: "Hello, from Go!",
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
			fmt.Print("Error", err.Error())
			return
		}
	fmt.Printf("Response: %#v\n", response)
}

Note: We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth_id and auth_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use os.Setenv and os.Getenv functions to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.

Test

Save the file and run it.

go run SendSMS.go

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How it works

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Create the send SMS application

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Overview

How it works

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Create the send SMS application

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Overview

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

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Overview

How it works

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Create the send SMS application

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Overview

How it works

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Create the send SMS application

Test

Overview

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Test

Overview

How it works

Prerequisites

Create the send SMS application

Test