Africa's Talking SMS
Send and receive SMS from more than 300 million mobile subscribers across Africa.
This connector is available in the following products and regions:
Service | Class | Regions |
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Logic Apps | Standard | All Logic Apps regions except the following: - Azure Government regions - Azure China regions - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
Power Automate | Premium | All Power Automate regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
Power Apps | Premium | All Power Apps regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
Contact | |
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Name | Advice and answers from the Africa's Talking Team |
URL | https://help.africastalking.com/en/ |
smsussd@africastalking.com |
Connector Metadata | |
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Publisher | Africa's Talking |
Website | https://africastalking.com/sms |
Privacy policy | https://africastalking.com/privacy_policy |
Categories | Communication |
Africa's Talking SMS provides a powerful API that allows you to effectively send text communication to your customers when they need it. This connectors exposes a couple of operations that allow you to send SMS and retrieve messages in your inbox from our APIs.
In order to use this connector, you will need the following:
- An account with Africa's Talking; you can sign up here.
- A live production application; you can create one after registering. After logging in, go ahead and create a new team, then create a new production ready application for that team. You will use this application's API key to create a new connection.
This connector uses API Key
authentication. Once you've signed up and you've created a production ready application, click on this application to switch to its dashboard. Navigate to Settings > API Key
to generate a new API Key for this application.
This connector currently only works with production ready applications, so DO NOT use the default sandbox application's API key.
The connector supports the following authentication types:
Default | Parameters for creating connection. | All regions | Not shareable |
Applicable: All regions
Parameters for creating connection.
This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.
Name | Type | Description | Required |
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API Key | securestring | The API Key for this api | True |
Name | Calls | Renewal Period |
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API calls per connection | 100 | 60 seconds |
Fetch inbox |
Fetch messages in your inbox. |
Send SMS |
Send an SMS to multiple numbers. |
Fetch messages in your inbox.
Parameters
Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
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Username
|
username | True | string |
Your application's username, on Africa's Talking. |
Last received Id
|
lastReceivedId | integer |
An id of the last message you retrieved. |
Returns
Name | Path | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Messages
|
SMSMessageData.Messages | array of |
Messages |
Send an SMS to multiple numbers.
Parameters
Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
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Username
|
username | True | string |
Your application's username, on Africa's Talking. |
Message
|
message | True | string |
The message you'd like to send. |
phoneNumbers
|
phoneNumbers | True | array of string |
phoneNumbers |
Enqueue
|
enqueue | boolean |
Send as many messages as possible before waiting for acknowledgement from telcos. |
|
From
|
from | string |
Your registered short code or alphanumeric; defaults to AFRICASTKNG. |
Returns
Name | Path | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Message
|
SMSMessageData.Message | string |
Message |
Recipients
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients | array of object |
Recipients |
cost
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.cost | string |
cost |
messageId
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.messageId | string |
messageId |
messageParts
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.messageParts | integer |
messageParts |
number
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.number | string |
number |
status
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.status | string |
status |
statusCode
|
SMSMessageData.Recipients.statusCode | integer |
statusCode |
When a number opts out of receiving your bulk messages |
Triggered whenever a user opts out of receiving messages from your alphanumeric sender ID |
When you receive a Delivery Report for a sent message |
Triggered when you receive a Delivery Report for a message initially sent |
When you receive a message in your inbox |
Triggered whenever a message is sent to any of your registered shortcodes |
Triggered whenever a user opts out of receiving messages from your alphanumeric sender ID
Parameters
Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Username
|
username | True | string |
Your Application's username |
Returns
- response
- object
Triggered when you receive a Delivery Report for a message initially sent
Parameters
Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Username
|
username | True | string |
Your application's username. |
Returns
- response
- object
Triggered whenever a message is sent to any of your registered shortcodes
Parameters
Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Username
|
username | True | string |
Your application's username |
Returns
- response
- object
This is the type 'object'.