I just found myself coming

hhunt — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:26:08 +0000

I just found myself coming back to this page after a couple of years away. Nice piece of code and this it's still valid today.

Send sms via HTTP request,

adforte — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:55:23 +0000

Send sms via HTTP request, sample url: http://adforte.com/jovi.member.app-user-commands?action=send&user=yourus...

SMS Gateway URL HTTP SMPP http://www.adforte.com

Thanks guys, this looks very

hhunt — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:50:03 +0000

Thanks guys, this looks very cool. I will try and run it when I get home to see if works for me as well.
Nice for posting it.

haha - I don't even own a

decibel.places — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:59:25 +0000

haha - I don't even own a cell phone

thinking about getting the G1, sometime

people ask me, "How do you live without a cell phone?"

I answer, "In peace."

I wish it was that easy. If

teammatt3 — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:08:00 +0000

I wish it was that easy.

If you are using the Clickatell script:

Sign up for an account on Clickatell
Buy text messages
Sign up for the HTTP api
Put your authentication info in the function header:
def send(text, to = "13605555555", send_as = "13605555556", user = "your_username", password = "your_password", api_id = "your api key"):
Put your script somewhere on your server.
Chmod it so it can be executed: chmod 700 /path/to/sms.py
Try it: /path/to/sms.py "my message"

If you are using the Gmail script:

Find your cell provider's email to SMS email address. ATT's is: 10_digit_phone_number@txt.att.net
Put your gmail authentication info in the function header:
def send(body, to = "3605555555@txt.att.net", username = "john@gmail.com", password = "my password"):
Put your script somewhere on your server.
Chmod it so it can be executed: chmod 700 /path/to/gmail.py
Try it: /path/to/gmail.py "my message"

And of course, it only works if you have Python (Debian has it by default, other distros probably do too)

where should I put sms.py ?

You can put it anywhere on your server. In my home directory, I created a directory called "bin" that is in my $PATH variable. I can call gmail.py anywhere on the command line. If you don't put the script in your $PATH, then you always have to call the script with "./gmail.py" or "/path/to/gmail.py"

excuse a question from a

decibel.places — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:53:18 +0000

excuse a question from a Python n00b (yes, believe it or not, I don't know everything )

so if I put this code in a file named sms.py on my server I can then send a SMS from PuTTY using SSH?

where should I put sms.py ?

The only problem with

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:40:03 +0000

The only problem with finding the email address is that you can't really tell what it is just by looking at the phone number. You need the site users to select their cell provider as well, and then have a data set that can match the email domain with the provider list.

Even better, use Gmail as

teammatt3 — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Even better, use Gmail as your mail server, and use your provider's free gateway:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import smtplib

def send(body, to = "3605555555@txt.att.net", username = "john@gmail.com", password = "my password"):
  mail_server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
  mail_server.ehlo()
  mail_server.starttls()
  mail_server.ehlo()
  mail_server.login(username, password)
  mail_server.sendmail(username, to, body)
  mail_server.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  argc = len(sys.argv)

  # first argument is the text message
  if argc == 2:
    send(sys.argv[1])
    # arguments are a text message and an email
  elif argc == 3:
    send(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
  else:
    print 'Usage: gmail.py "Text message" "[phone number as email]"'

The only thing is that I

teammatt3 — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:06:00 +0000

The only thing is that I don't like the services that charge for SMS messages. I just usually use the email address that it tied to the number.

That's a good idea. I thought I would have to install a mail server on the machine to do that. But I just realized you could create a simple HTTP request to a mailing script on another machine that has mailing services. Now I spent $20 for nothing

I think it's a total ripoff to pay between $.05 and $.20 for a few bytes of data transfer too. I can't wait for the day when SMS is free.

Cool, I will have to look

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:42:43 +0000

Cool, I will have to look into that API. The only thing is that I don't like the services that charge for SMS messages. I just usually use the email address that it tied to the number. Most if not all providers have 1234567890@provider.com as an option, which is what I use when I set up alert systems for my own use.