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Send Scheduled SMS POST METHOD

PARAMETERS

API URL : https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/

apikey (string : required)

apikey helps to identify the user making the request. Sign/login for your apikey

from (string : required)

This represents the sender id for the message

to (string : required)

This is a string of comma seperated mobile numbers, eg 0570120200,0562123456

message (string : required)

This represents the body of message sent as SMS

type (string: required)

For scheduled SMS pass this as "scheduled". Required for scheduled SMS.

expectedDeliveryTime (string: required)

This represents the initial delivery time, this should be passed as YYYY-MM-DD HH:HH:MM eg. "2021-07-29 06:30:10". Required for scheduled SMS.

encode (boolean : optional)

Pass this value true (boolean) if you want your SMS to support special characters like emojis, latin, arabic, chinese etc, otherwise do not include this field in your payload

EXPECTED RESPONSE

json
status - 200 ok

{ "status": "successful", "message": "Thank you for choosing us, your Scheduled SMS has been saved and will be delivered at the appropriate time", "messageId": "123456789" }

Javascript

js
const apikey = "1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF" 
var from = "ICSMS" 
var to = "0570120200,0562123456"
var message = "Testing Scheduled SMS"
var type = "scheduled"
var expectedDeliveryTime = "2021-07-29 06:30:10"

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Authorization", `Bearer ${apikey}`);
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var payload = JSON.stringify({
  "from": from,
  "to": to,
  "message": message,
  "type": type,
  "expectedDeliveryTime": expectedDeliveryTime,
});

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: payload,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));  

NodeJS

js
const axios = require('axios');

const apikey = "1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF"
let from = "ICSMS" 
let to = "0570120200,0562123456"
let message = "Testing Scheduled SMS"
let type = "scheduled"
let expectedDeliveryTime = "2021-07-29 06:30:10"

let data = JSON.stringify({
  "from": from,
  "to": to,
  "message": message,
  "type": type,
  "expectedDeliveryTime": expectedDeliveryTime,
});

let config = {
  method: 'post',
  maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: 'https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${apikey}`, 
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then((response) => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

PHP

php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();
$apikey = "1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF";
$from = "ICSMS";
$to = "0570120200,0562123456";
$message = "Testing Scheduled SMS";
$type = "scheduled";
$expectedDeliveryTime = "2021-07-29 06:30:10";

$request = array(
  "from"=>$from,
  "to"=> $to,
  "message"=>$message,
  "type"=>$type,
  "expectedDeliveryTime"=>$expectedDeliveryTime,
);

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>json_encode($request),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Authorization: Bearer '.$apikey,
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Python

python
import requests

url = "https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/"

apikey = "1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF"
sender_id = "ICSMS"
to = "0570120200,0562123456"
message = "Testing Scheduled SMS"
type_of_message = "scheduled"
expectedDeliveryTime = "2021-07-29 06:30:10"

payload = json.dumps({
  "from": sender_id,
  "to": to,
  "message": message,
  "type": type_of_message,
  "expectedDeliveryTime": expectedDeliveryTime
})

headers = {
  'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(apikey),
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.json())

C#

c#
var options = new RestClientOptions("https://api.icsms.net")
{
  MaxTimeout = -1,
};
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("/sendsms/", Method.Post);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer 1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
var body = @"{
" + "\n" +
@"    ""from"":""ICSMS"",
" + "\n" +
@"    ""to"":""0570120200,0562123456"",
" + "\n" +
@"    ""message"":""Testing Scheduled SMS"",
" + "\n" +
@"    ""type"":""scheduled"",
" + "\n" +
@"    ""expectedDeliveryTime"":""2021-07-29 06:30:10"",
" + "\n" +
@"}";
request.AddStringBody(body, DataFormat.Json);
RestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);

Java

java
Unirest.setTimeouts(0, 0);
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.icsms.net/sendsms/")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer 1W3N4KHD28YCBL8M7WDG0L11N73FP28JKD5SOKD2D4KXJKCKMF")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\r\n    \"from\":\"ICSMS\",\r\n    \"to\":\"0570120200,0562123456\",\r\n    \"message\":\"Testing Scheduled SMS\",\r\n    \"type\":\"scheduled\",\r\n    \"expectedDeliveryTime\":\"2021-07-29 06:30:10\",\r\n}")
  .asString();