Or 3) use a higher level 3rd party SMS gateway such as www.textmarks.com. You can pay per message or opt to include short ads in the footers of your messages and send them for free, without providing any billing information whatsoever. TextMarks is currently U.S. only.
On Jul 10, 1:13 am, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > Last time I checked (4-5 months ago) there was still no native API for > doing this via Google's services. So, you are left with two options: > > 1) use the "sms to email gateway" approach whereby you construct an > email address from the user's phone number and carrier info; eg. > [email protected] and send it as an email message. > 2) use a 3rd party SMS gateway server such aswww.clickatell.com. > There are a bunch of providers of this type of service and they will > typically have HTTPS APIs that you can call from your GAE code. > > The advantage of 1 over 2 is that 1 is free while 2 will cost you some > number of pennies per message (I think clickatell costs $0.03 per > message). The advantage of 2 over 1 is that you get guaranteed > delivery and you don't have to deal with the hassle of creating the > email address... you only need to know the user's wireless number. > With phone number portability the sms/email approach can be a hassle > and unreliable. > > I chose approch number 2 in my app. Good luck. > > On Jul 10, 12:35 am, deostroll <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is there a way to send sms via google appengine server? > > > --deostroll --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
