SMS Notifications with Action Africastalking

A GitHub Action to send a text message to the mobile number of choice via AfricastalkingSMS API

Action Africastalking

Submission Category: DIY Deployments

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alphaolomi / actions-africastalking

Send an SMS from GitHub Actions using Africastalking Programmable SMS

📨 Africastalking SMS Action

A GitHub Action to send a text message to mobile number of choice using Africastalking Programmable SMS

Usage

1. Create a .github/workflows/sms.yml file in your repository.
2. Add the following content to the sms.yml file:

name: SMS Notification
on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  smsNotification:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: alphaolomi/actions-africastalking@main
        with:
          fromPhoneNumber: 'INFO' # or secrets.fromPhoneNumber
          toPhoneNumber: ${{ secrets.toPhoneNumber }}
          message: 'Hello World'
        env:
          AT_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.AT_API_KEY }}
          AT_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.AT_USERNAME }}

1. Add the following secrets to your repository:

• AT_API_KEY - Your Africastalking API Key
• AT_USERNAME - Your Africastalking Username

Inputs

• AT_API_KEY Required. You can get this from the Africastalking's Dashboard.
• AT_USERNAME Required. Use 'sandbox' as the value for development in the test environment
• fromPhoneNumber Required. The name or number the message will…

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on: push
name: Africastalking Notification Demo
jobs:
  africastalkingNotification:
    name: Africastalking Notification
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Africastalking Notification
      uses: alphaolomi/action-africastalking-@master
      env:        
        AT_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.AT_API_KEY }} 
        AT_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.AT_USERNAME }} 
        AT_MOBILE_NUMBER: ${{ secrets.AT_MOBILE_NUMBER }}