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SMS Gateway with API
Hi
I am looking to implement a custom email checking solution .It will send all priority email notifications via SMS.It will check again and again via Cron job.My country is Pakistan and my carrier is Warid. please tell me of any free SMS gateway with api.I don't need much usage even 10-20 SMS per day would be good but higher is always better :-)
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They might not have an API, not really sure, but we've been using SMSMail.com. It's really simple, you just mail {number}@smsmail.com with your message and away it goes :-)
You can specify a sender number or name, and you buy credits in bulk, at a fairly good price.
Really simple. Worth checking out.
Will check it out
I don't think free is possible. https://www.twilio.com/ provides API, but it's not free.
This might surprise you, but you have to pay for some things. This is one of those things.
If you can raise your budget above "nothing", I recommend https://www.textplode.com/ who have a simple API and excellent pricing.
Code: https://github.com/loadingdeck/Textplode/tree/master
Also Nexmo has an api for SMS sending and also for text to speech phone calls.
Nexmo is awesome. Onverify is my 2nd pick
No harm in asking is there?
twilio, clickatell... oh you want free? like jhadley says... pay for it if you want it.
failing that you could maybe fudge together some code that'd take advantage of the crumbs of free sms's across various sites.
Twilio works pretty well, definitely will have to pay for something like this. Even if you find something that's free you will most likely get 0% reliability for what you said would be priority e-mails.
We have been using http://www.clockworksms.com/ for a few years now, zero complaints, super simple API and ways to send and receive SMSs
Thanx people... For your opinionopinions..I will check these out...if there are other options do mention please
You can use an android phone with sms gateway api (free).
Of course you'll need a sim card and some sms package.
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@muratai specify one but I am not sure that is what I am looking .It might be other way around
Like others have said, I'd recommend Nexmo, been using them for quite a while with no problems :-) very cheap too.
like a lowend vps .I could do 4-5 bucks per year :-p
yea, no, international SMS pricing is around 5c to all networks - So if you can work with 100 SMS/yr then your 5$ budget is doable.
"SORRY: SMSMail.com is CLOSING! No new registrations possible:"
you can buy a dirt cheap android and use this for free
smsgateway.me
Or an SMS modem with Gammu. We used to use a pool of 8 SMS modems with Gammu happily.
Gammu is just an sms manager. You can do most using gammu what you can do with your cellphone.
Take a look at kannel instead where you can have a lot of gsm modems.
Will try these options too....I could set up my own...But i am looking for a 24/7 working solution and using an android mobile doesn't cut it
I am sending alerts from my server to an android phone and making my phone a server is simply ...let say stupid....and a 24/7 hours on a mobilr phone .....where would I collocate it...use my home WiFi or cellular data...both options just not acceptable
It seems nothing acceptable for you. You don't want to pay, you want to use it for your internal projects. You want reliability. You don't get all at once.
Android phone with sms gateway is pretty much reliable.
professional cost money
Look...I will try Ur way....
But first I need to set up the android phone