Emulate AfricasTalking

Learn how to quickly modify your existing AfricasTalking API calls to send SMS messages using the SMS Gateway Emulator app. With minimal code changes, you can switch from AfricasTalking services to our app, saving costs and gaining full control over your SMS gateway.

Outbound SMS messages supported. Multiple recipients are supported.

There are 2 ways to emulate AfricasTalking API.

Change the API url directly.
Via our Proxy Server.

Whatever you do, make sure to change AppApiKey to EMULATOR_API_KEY, username to EMULATOR_USERNAME, and set EMULATOR_SENDER_ID.

AfricasTalking Official Documents

https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk

curl

Original

curl -X POST \
    https://api.africastalking.com/version1/messaging/bulk \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'apiKey: AppApiKey' \
    -d '{
    "username": "username",
    "message": "This is a sample message.",
    "senderId": "ABC",
    "phoneNumbers": [
        "2B254711XXXYYY",
        "2B254711YYYZZZ"
    ]
}'

Change the API url directly

curl -X POST \
    https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/version1/messaging/bulk \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'apiKey: $EMULATOR_API_KEY' \
    -d '{
    "username": "$EMULATOR_USERNAME",
    "message": "This is a sample message.",
    "senderId": "$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID",
    "phoneNumbers": [
        "2B254711XXXYYY",
        "2B254711YYYZZZ"
    ]
}'

Via Proxy

curl -X POST \
    https://api.africastalking.com/version1/messaging/bulk \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'apiKey: $EMULATOR_API_KEY' \
    -d '{
    "username": "$EMULATOR_USERNAME",
    "message": "This is a sample message.",
    "senderId": "$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID",
    "phoneNumbers": [
        "2B254711XXXYYY",
        "2B254711YYYZZZ"
    ]
}' \
--cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt \
--proxy https://proxy.smsgatewayemulator.com \
--proxy-cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt

Python

Original

import africastalking

africastalking.initialize("YOUR_USERNAME", "YOUR_API_KEY")

recipients = ["+254711XXXYYY"]
message = "Hello from Africastalking Emulator"
sender = "shortCode or senderId"
try:
    response = africastalking.SMS.send(message, recipients, sender)
    print (response)
except Exception as e:
    print ('Encountered an error while sending: %s' % str(e))

Change the API url directly

import africastalking

africastalking.initialize("EMULATOR_USERNAME", "EMULATOR_API_KEY")

recipients = ["+254711XXXYYY"]
message = "Hello from Africastalking Emulator"
sender = "EMULATOR_SENDER_ID"
try:
    africastalking.SMS._baseUrl = "https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/version1"
    response = africastalking.SMS.send(message, recipients, sender)
    print (response)
except Exception as e:
    print ('Encountered an error while sending: %s' % str(e))

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