Sending SMS messages

[Marinho Brandao]

Hello everybody,

I need to write an app to send SMS messages to the most mobile
companies I can, like Gmail does.

I'd see this app [1], but it has no files in the repository.

Does somebody knows a code, tool or something about this? (I wanna
write only what is left)

--
Marinho Brandão (José Mário)
http://marinho.webdoisonline.com/

[Marinho Brandao]

sorry, the [1] is this:

http://code.google.com/p/django-sms/

2008/1/18, Marinho Brandao <mar...@gmail.com>:

[David Marquis]

Hi,

You know that you can send SMS messages to most phones using an e-mail
address ?

phone_...@carrier.xyz

The exact domain name is specific to each mobile phone provider. This
information can be obtained from the provider's web site.
For more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways
I don't know if this would fit your requirement, but it is a quick and
easy solution.

Otherwise there are several SMS gateways (with remote API) that will
charge a fee for every relayed SMS message.
I am thinking of Clickatell (http://www.clickatell.com/)

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[Anton P. Linevich]

Greeting, Marinho! Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:31:48PM -0200, marinho wrote:

> > I'd see this app [1], but it has no files in the repository.
> >
> > Does somebody knows a code, tool or something about this? (I wanna
> > write only what is left)

Thing is you need to stick to one of the API of SMS-Gateway providers,
there is no universal API/Tool for this.

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Anton P. Linevich

[John]

Let me try and answer your questions.

Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need
to host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS.

If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do
the work, and post to them by HTTP, XML or email. The cost is about
6-8 cents per SMS. There are cheaper services, but not always
reliable. If you need to host your own GSM device, you can use
software like [url]http://www.kannel.org[/url] (GPL Open Source) or
[url]http://www.visualgsm.com[/url].


Regards,
SMS Gateway Expert
http://www.visualtron.com

[Papalagi Pakeha]

On Jan 23, 2008 5:01 PM, John <linw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let me try and answer your questions.
>
> Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need
> to host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS.

afaik clickatell can receive sms messages on your behalf and trigger
some sort of callback to your server. not sure how it works though.

> If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do
> the work, and post to them by HTTP, XML or email. The cost is about
> 6-8 cents per SMS. There are cheaper services, but not always
> reliable. If you need to host your own GSM device, you can use
> software like [url]http://www.kannel.org[/url] (GPL Open Source) or
> [url]http://www.visualgsm.com[/url].

can you share some other service names, not necessarily cheaper but
with a decent api like clickatell has?

thx

papa

[Mat]

Very much depends on your country, but have a look at esendex.com they offer
a very good api, I can speak from experience! There isn't a python SDK, but
they have examples in other languages, so it shouldn't be too hard to draft
one up and all there specs are based on standard protocols and are well
documented.

They can also received texts on your behalf and will ping your servers with
the messages.

If you sign up they give you a free account for a while, if this isn't
enough call them and explain the situation, they gave us 1500 free text's to
use whilst we developed the system.

Been very impressed by them
Mat

[Marinho Brandao]

Hi,

thanks for all, I will check the possibilities :)

2008/1/23, Mat <dja...@wakari.co.uk>:

[John]

can you share some other service names, not necessarily cheaper but
with a decent api like clickatell has?

>>> clickatell is the best for price and reliability

[Joe Bloggs]

There is a python API for sending SMS as well as making phone calls, see http://sdk.bt.com , the python bit can be accessed once registered via http://web21c.bt.com/downloads .

Regards,

Joe