Web API for SMS

[sijie123]

Hi everyone!
I was programming a tool for myself and I was wondering if there are Web SMS APIs available here in Singapore? I want to send out mass SMSes to a group of people (to be more exact my class) using my mobile number which has unlimited SMSes.
It's kinda irritating to have to send these kinds of messages on phones especially since you have to input the numbers manually.
So I was trying to code a web tool to send SMSes but are there such APIs available? Cost per message doesn't matter, but I would need to use my number so that it can deduct messages from my unlimited plan.

 

[xkiller213]

not exactly an API, but a web SMS tool... https://mightytext.net

 

[davidktw]

Hi everyone!
I was programming a tool for myself and I was wondering if there are Web SMS APIs available here in Singapore? I want to send out mass SMSes to a group of people (to be more exact my class) using my mobile number which has unlimited SMSes.
It's kinda irritating to have to send these kinds of messages on phones especially since you have to input the numbers manually.
So I was trying to code a web tool to send SMSes but are there such APIs available? Cost per message doesn't matter, but I would need to use my number so that it can deduct messages from my unlimited plan.

Read up the interfaces offered by Clickatell. The default for SMS is SMPP. It has more features, but nowadays people prefer simple web interfaces unless they require deep integration.

Clicktell offer a large assorted number of interfaces. I don't think anything besides SMPP or SMTP for SMS are standards.

You want it from your phone ? You need a GSM modem, or something you can control via the COM/SERIAL port. Just buy credits from SMS gateway if you want to mass sms, why use your own HP number?

 

[Gottaname]

Suggest even an easier method.

You can use any 3G modem or android mobile phone with open source program to send/recieve sms

Wammu/Sammu is opensource program for linux, can read off mysql tables and send SMS as well as write sms messages to database as well.

 

[sijie123]

Thanks everyone for helping me out here, really appreciate it!

I'm afraid I can't use a GSM modem because I'm firing messages out from a server located in the US...
And I wish to use my mobile number because since I'm on unlimited message plan, any messages out would be free. If I were to use services like Clickatell, then I would have to pay $$ for every message I send out. Cheap, but in the long run unfeasible.

Worse come to worse okay I may try things like Wammu/Gammu or MightyText but it's kinda weird that I have to leave my phone on and the server sends commands to my phone to send messages instead of sending direct.

I'm looking for a Web API / hardcode solution so that I can send messages directly from the telco's message centres and bypass the need for interacting with my phone, is it possible?

Thanks!

 

[davidktw]

Thanks everyone for helping me out here, really appreciate it!

I'm afraid I can't use a GSM modem because I'm firing messages out from a server located in the US...
And I wish to use my mobile number because since I'm on unlimited message plan, any messages out would be free. If I were to use services like Clickatell, then I would have to pay $$ for every message I send out. Cheap, but in the long run unfeasible.

Worse come to worse okay I may try things like Wammu/Gammu or MightyText but it's kinda weird that I have to leave my phone on and the server sends commands to my phone to send messages instead of sending direct.

I'm looking for a Web API / hardcode solution so that I can send messages directly from the telco's message centres and bypass the need for interacting with my phone, is it possible?

Thanks!

Gammu is for locally connected GSM modem. The only way to connect to a device not locally connected in your case is USB over Ethernet or SERIAL over Ethernet. Either way you are asking for trouble just for the sake of using your own mobile plan.

Using Gammu, or connecting via your mobile phone or anything is exactly using the SMSC offer by your mobile service provider. I have not come across any telecom over their SMSC as a service to consumer directly. The only way is projects within the telecom allow connection to their SMSC.

Using clickatell is the same as an SMSC approach except it doesn't come from your own telecomm. I highly doubt there is other approach.

If you want something free, try having your participants connected to your system via email, twitter, facebook or such services to push down notifications. If not buy the credits and use them. Nothing is free, same with your own SMS quota.

 

[jaloon]

M1 does provide web SMS...
http://msgctr.m1.com.sg/MessageCentre/jsp/index.jsp