Emulate Plivo

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

Change the API url directly.
Via our Proxy Server.

Whatever you do, make sure to change the PLIVO_AUTH_ID, PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN to EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID, EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN, and set EMULATOR_SENDER_ID.

Plivo Official Documents

https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/overview/
https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/message#send-a-message

curl

Original

curl -i --user auth_id:auth_token \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"src\": \"<from_number>\",\"dst\": \"+12025551111\", \"text\": \"Hello, this is sample text\"}" \
    https://api.plivo.com/v1/Account/{auth_id}/Message/

Change the API url directly

curl -i --user $EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID:$EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"src\": \"$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID\",\"dst\": \"+12025551111\", \"text\": \"Hello, this is sample text\"}" \
    https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/v1/Account/$EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID/Message/

Via Proxy

curl -i --user $EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID:$EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"src\": \"$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID\",\"dst\": \"+12025551111\", \"text\": \"Hello, this is sample text\"}" \
    https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/v1/Account/$EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID/Message/ \
    --cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt \
    --proxy https://proxy.smsgatewayemulator.com \
    --proxy-cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt

Python

Original

import os
import plivo

client = plivo.RestClient(os.environ["PLIVO_AUTH_ID"], os.environ["PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN"])
response = client.messages.create(
    src='from_number',
    dst='+15558675310',
    text='Hello, from Plivo')

print(response)

Via Proxy

import os
import plivo
from requests.sessions import Session

# Save the original Session.__init__
original_init = Session.__init__

# Monkey patch Session.__init__
def patched_init(session_self, *args, **kwargs):
    original_init(session_self, *args, **kwargs)
    session_self.verify = os.path.abspath('./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt')

# Apply patch
Session.__init__ = patched_init

try:
    client = plivo.RestClient(os.environ["EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID"], os.environ["EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN"], proxies={'https': 'https://proxy.smsgatewayemulator.com'})
    response = client.messages.create(
        src=os.environ["EMULATOR_SENDER_ID"],
        dst='+15558675310',
        text='Hello, from Plivo Emulator'
    )

    print(response)
finally:
    # Restore the original Session.__init__
    Session.__init__ = original_init

Node.js

Original

var plivo = require('plivo');
(function main() {
    'use strict';
    var client = new plivo.Client("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
    client.messages.create(
    {
        src: "<from_number>",
        dst: "<destination_number>",
        text: "Hello, this is sample text",
        url: "https://<yourdomain>.com/sms_status/"
    }
    ).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });
})();

Change the API url directly

var plivo = require('plivo');
(function main() {
    'use strict';
    var client = new plivo.Client(.env.EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID, process.env.EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_TOKEN, {url: "https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/v1/Account/" + process.env.EMULATOR_PLIVO_AUTH_ID});
    client.messages.create(
    {
        src: process.env.EMULATOR_SENDER_ID,
        dst: "N:Node.js Demo",
        text: "Hello, this is sample text",
        url: "https://<yourdomain>.com/sms_status/"
    }
    ).then(function (response) {
        console.log(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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