How to send automated SMS messages over the internet?

internet sms api

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Solution 1

I knew of a professional service that required the end user to define their carrier, and then they converted it to the built-in email address (EX: Verizon is <10-digit phone number>@vtext.com)

I found a (non-confirmed) list of many of the carriers here:

ATT - [10-digit phone number] @ txt.att.net

Sprint - [10-digit phone number] @ messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile - [10-digit phone number] @ tmomail.net

US Cellular - [10-digit phone number] @ email.uscc.net

Verizon - [10-digit phone number] @ vtext.com

How do you send a text message from the computer?

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Solution 2

Zeep Mobile is a free service, and I think it's pretty good. I'm planning on using it for a project in the near future.

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Eric Koslow

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Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Eric Koslow over 1 year
Does anyone know of a service that will send SMS messages over the internet, and can be automated?

Prefer service to:
- Be free
- Have an API freely available and highly modular
- Be open source
Like to avoid:
- Expensive
- No API, must only use their system.
- No Customization
- Admin almost 15 years
  
  Just to clarify, do you mean "Short Message Service" (as in cellular phone text messaging)?
- Admin almost 15 years
  
  Yes, I want to sends automated texts, using some service that I can then program to.
- Admin over 11 years
  
  There's definitely noo way anyone would try and exploit such a thing.
Eric Koslow almost 15 years

I like the idea, but this service seems a little too controlling for what I am doing. I don't want to force my users to sign up through a web page. Nominally I want to be able to specify a number and the message, and that's it.
Eric Koslow almost 15 years

Wow this is really good! The only problem with this is that I don't know what carrier the number I'm sending to has.
Assembler almost 15 years

They recently sent out a news email including a section saying "Users can now subscribe to your app via SMS in addition to using the Zeep Mobile panel." So maybe it's a non-issue now?
GavinR almost 15 years

Yes indeed this requires the user to define their carrier before it's useful ... unless you can determine the carrier based on the phone number (anyone know if there's an API to do that? :)