HTTP API gateway

Another one alternative method to send SMS from Inviosmart, is HTTP API gateway.

Registered users, apart from sending sms from web application, can also use HTTP API gateway.

That gives the ability to third party applications, with a simple way, to communicate with Inviosmart and deliver their content via HTTP requests. With every request to HTTP API gateway, application can receive the result of the operation. It gets a unique ID that can be used to have a delivery report also.

Available options

1. Getting help of the webservice

You can see the usage help HTTP API gateway with a GET request to:

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/help

2. Sending SMS

The url you can use for sending SMS via HTTP API, by GET requests, is

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/sendsms/

That command also requires some mandatory arguments to be appended (NOTICE - all variables must be url encoded - http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp).

• username [alphanumeric] - Your username for Inviosmart
• password [alphanumeric] - Your password for Inviosmart
• destination [alphanumeric] - The phone number you want to send the message (NOTE THAT must include country code, without 00 or + on the start - for example, for Italian phones, valid number is something like this: 393391234567)
• sender [alphanumeric] - The sender's name. This is what we want to be shown on recepient's phone screen as a sender. Max width: 11 characters. You cannot use just digits. You must also provide letters.
• message [alphanumeric] - The url encoded message

Below is a sample request, that you can use in your browser's address bar:

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/sendsms/?username=myusername&password=mypass&destination=393391234567&sender=MyName&message=Hello%20there.

In case of success, the above url will return something like the following:

OK ID:<SMS HTTP request ID>

where <SMS HTTP request ID> is the integer value of the unique ID of the submited SMS. For example:

OK ID:1234

In case of failure, we get one of the below error messages:

• Internal Error.
• Invalid destination or Destination not covered.
• System error. Please retry.

3. Getting SMS status

You can also track your message status by using another command of the HTTP API.

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/smsstatus/

The required arguments for that command are:

• SMSId [integer] - The ID that sendsms command returned to us
• username [alphanumeric] - Your username
• password [alphanumeric] -Your password

An example for that command is:

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/smsstatus/?SMSId=1111&username=myusername&password=mypass

In case of error, command return one of the following messages:

• Error: 1012 - User authendication failure. Username and/or password mismatch.
• Error: 1027 - No SMS ID given.
• Error: 1028 - No valid parameters given.

or values separated with [:] symbol. These values contain the info of the requested SMS. Fields are:

<SMSId>:<Submtited On>:<Destination number>:<Delivered On>:<Status number>:<Quantity of SMS>:<Charge amount>

and here is and example:

2345:20101212152514:306912345678:20101212152519:2048:1:0.057

4. Getting account balance

To get the account balance (in Euro) and the remaining sms quantity for a specific country you must call the below url:

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/account-balance/

If you only want to get the account balance in Euro, you have to supply two arguments (username and password of your account).

• username [alphanumeric] - Your username
• password [alphanumeric] - Your password
• countryprefix [alphanumeric - optional] - Country dialing code

In case of error you get on of the following results:

Error: 1001 - No username given.
Error: 1002 - No password given.

In case of success you will get something like this:

Status: 1000 - Balance:BalanceInEuro|SmsRemainCount:RemainingSMSCount

where: BalanceInEuro is the value of your account balance and RemainingSMSCount is the quantity of sms. For that case you will always get -9999 number.

If you want to get the remaining sms quantity in your account, then you have to supply countryprefix variable also.

For example, for Italy you give 39. Below is an example of use:

http://httpapi.inviosmart.it/account-balance/?username=myusername&password=mypass&countryprefix=39

In case of success a possible result is something like that:

Status: 1000 - Balance:112.24|SmsRemainCount:2877

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