intelli-sms-gateway 0.1.6

A package extending developable features of the Intelli-Africa Solutions SMS Gateway

Overview

1. Installation

2. Authenticate

3. Assign CSV file path to variable CSV for a bulk sms

4. Call either method for sending bulk or single SMSs

1. Installation

pip install intelli-sms-gateway # For Windows

pip3 install intelli-sms-gateway # For Linux

Should dependencies fail to automatically install

pip install requests && pip install pandas

#OR

pip3 install requests && pip3 install pandas

2. Authentication

Instantiate Client class byt passing the parameters email and password in that order

from intelli_sms_gateway.client import Client

# Import the client class from the client module

client = Client('[e-mail]', 'password')

# This line of code with Authenticate you. Should you not be authenticated, it will raise an exception

Should the client be authenticated, this instantiation will return a property of value True. The reverse is true.

3. Getting Details On a Bulk SMS from a CSV

Define a variable, assign to it the path of the csv file you want to use Make sure the first column in the CSV is named 'numbers' or the program will return errors. Phone numbers must be in the format 263777534224

4. Sending the messages

Bulk SMSes

Call the single SMS method of the client instance and pass the required parameters namely: message, csv, title The CSV that is being passed is the variable that contains the path to the CSV. Should the path be incorrect, errors will be raised

# We send a bulk SMS after authentication

client.send_bulk_sms('Please attend the meeting at 1pm', csv_variable, 'Meeting announcament')

Single SMSes

Call the single SMS method of the client instance and pass the required parameters namely: message, receiver, title Phone numbers must be in the format 263777534224

# We send a single SMS after authentication

client.send_single_sms('Please attend the meeting at 1pm', '263777534224', 'Meeting announcament')

If your credentials are correct, your messages will not be sent