Emulate MessageBird

Learn how to quickly modify your existing Messagebird API calls to send SMS messages using the SMS Gateway Emulator app. With minimal code changes, you can switch from Messagebird 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 MessageBird API.

Change the API url directly.
Via our Proxy Server.

Whatever you do, make sure to change YOUR_ACCESS_KEY to EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY, and set EMULATOR_SENDER_ID.

MessageBird Official Documents

https://developers.messagebird.com/api/sms-messaging/

curl

Original

curl -X POST https://rest.messagebird.com/messages \
  -H 'Authorization: AccessKey YOUR_ACCESS_KEY' \
  -d "recipients=31612345678" \
  -d "originator=17354442069" \
  -d "body=This is a test message"

Change the API url directly

curl -X POST https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/messages \
  -H 'Authorization: AccessKey EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY' \
  -d "recipients=31612345678" \
  -d "originator=17354442069" \
  -d "body=This is a test message"

Via Proxy

curl -X POST https://rest.messagebird.com/messages \
  -H 'Authorization: AccessKey EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY' \
  -d "recipients=31612345678" \
  -d "originator=17354442069" \
  -d "body=This is a test message" \
  --cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt \
  --proxy https://proxy.smsgatewayemulator.com \
  --proxy-cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt

Python

Original

import messagebird

client = messagebird.Client('YOUR_ACCESS_KEY')
message = client.message_create(
    'MessageBird',
    '31612345678',
    'This is a test message.',
    { 'reference' : 'Foobar' }
)

print(message.body)

Change the API url directly

import messagebird
from messagebird.http_client import HttpClient
from messagebird.client import USER_AGENT

client = messagebird.Client('EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY', HttpClient('https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com', 'EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY', USER_AGENT))
message = client.message_create(
    'EMULATOR_SENDER_ID',
    '31612345678',
    'This is a test message.',
    { 'reference' : 'Foobar' }
)

print(message.body)

Node.js

Original

var messagebird = require('messagebird').initClient('YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
var params = {
  'originator': 'MessageBird',
  'recipients': [
    '31612345678'
  ],
  'body': 'This is a test message.'
};
messagebird.messages.create(params, function (err, response) {
  if (err) {
    return console.log(err);
  }
  console.log(response);
});

Change the API url directly

const https = require('https');
const originalRequest = https.request;
// Monkey Patch https.request
https.request = function (options, callback) {
  if (options.hostname === 'rest.messagebird.com') {
    options.hostname = 'api.smsgatewayemulator.com';
  }
  return originalRequest.call(this, options, callback);
};
const messagebird = require('messagebird').initClient('EMULATOR_MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY');
const params = {
  originator: 'EMULATOR_SENDER_ID',
  recipients: ['N:notification title'],
  body: 'This is a test message.'
};
messagebird.messages.create(params, function (err, response) {
  if (err) {
    return console.log('Error:', err);
  }
  console.log('Response:', response);
});

Give the phone number N:notification title to send a notification to your phone, instead of sending a SMS message.

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