How to send SMS in 5 seconds right from your Terminal?

📨Shell-SMS-Shender

A Simple command line tool to send SMS from the command line using the Twilio API.

Send SMSes Swiftly right from your Shell

CT83 / Shell-SMS-Shender

A Simple command line tool to send SMS from the command line using the Twilio API.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo. git clone https://github.com/CT83/Shell-SMS-Shender.git, cd into it
2. chmod 775 sss-client
3. Head to the Twilio console. Either log-in or sign up for a free account, and look for the Account Summary, make sure you have already bought a Twilio Phone Number.

4. Copy the credentials and your phone number in a new file .config, and add it to the root of the repo, like so.
   

   ACCOUNTSID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   AUTHTOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   CALLERID=507-697-0XXX
   

5. Done! Type ./sss-client

License

MIT License. You are free to do anything. 🙃

References

I found this too by Twilio while researching, I modified it to suit my needs.

Comments

[davemcdavid]

Here is a single one line curl command in linux terminal to send SMS text messages with textgun.io.

curl -i --user username:password -d "number=19179362841&message=hello world!" textgun.io/send-sms