Emulate Telesign

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

• Outbound SMS messages supported

There are 2 ways to emulate Telesign API.

1. Change the API url directly.

2. Via our Proxy Server.

Whatever you do, make sure to change the Customer_ID, API_KEY to EMULATOR_Customer_ID, EMULATOR_API_KEY, and set sender_id with EMULATOR_SENDER_ID.

Telesign Official Documents

https://developer.telesign.com/enterprise/docs/sms-get-started

Basic authentication and Digest authentication are supported.

curl

• Original

curl -X POST "https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/messaging" \
--data-urlencode "phone_number=15551212" \
--data-urlencode "message=Hello, from Telesign" \
--data-urlencode "message_type=ARN" \
-u $Customer_ID:$API_KEY

• Change the API url directly

curl -X POST "https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com/v1/messaging" \
--data-urlencode "phone_number=15551212" \
--data-urlencode "message=Hello, from Telesign Emulator" \
--data-urlencode "message_type=ARN" \
--data-urlencode "sender_id=$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID" \
-u $EMULATOR_Customer_ID:$EMULATOR_API_KEY

• Via Proxy

curl -X POST "https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/messaging" \
--data-urlencode "phone_number=15551212" \
--data-urlencode "message=Hello, from Telesign Emulator" \
--data-urlencode "message_type=ARN" \
--data-urlencode "sender_id=$EMULATOR_SENDER_ID" \
-u $EMULATOR_Customer_ID:$EMULATOR_API_KEY \
--cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt \
--proxy https://proxy.smsgatewayemulator.com \
--proxy-cacert ./sms_gateway_emulator_ca.crt

Python

• Original

from telesign.messaging import MessagingClient

messaging = MessagingClient(customer_id, api_key)
response = messaging.message(phone_number, message, message_type)
print(response.ok)

• Change the API url directly

from telesign.messaging import MessagingClient
from telesign.util import AuthMethod

# Basic authentication and Digest authentication are supported
# messaging = MessagingClient('EMULATOR_Customer_ID', 'EMULATOR_API_KEY', rest_endpoint='https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com') # Digest authentication is default
messaging = MessagingClient('EMULATOR_Customer_ID', 'EMULATOR_API_KEY', rest_endpoint='https://api.smsgatewayemulator.com', auth_method=AuthMethod.BASIC.value)
response = messaging.message('15551212', 'Hello, from Telesign Emulator', 'ARN', **{"sender_id": 'EMULATOR_SENDER_ID'})
print(response.ok)