Africa's Talking Premium SMS API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Africa's Talking Airtime Premium SMS API
  description: 'Unified REST API for Africa''s Talking communications products: SMS (single, bulk, premium, subscriptions), USSD callbacks, Voice (call, transfer, media upload, queue status), Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments (mobile C2B checkout, B2C, B2B). Requests authenticate with an `apiKey` header and a `username` parameter. Hosts differ per product: messaging, airtime, and subscriptions live under api.africastalking.com/version1; voice under voice.africastalking.com; mobile data under bundles.africastalking.com; and payments under payments.africastalking.com. Sandbox equivalents insert `.sandbox.` into each host.'
  termsOfService: https://africastalking.com/terms
  contact:
    name: Africa's Talking Support
    url: https://help.africastalking.com
  version: version1
servers:
- url: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  description: Messaging, Airtime and Subscription production host
- url: https://api.sandbox.africastalking.com/version1
  description: Messaging, Airtime and Subscription sandbox host
- url: https://voice.africastalking.com
  description: Voice production host
- url: https://bundles.africastalking.com
  description: Mobile Data production host
- url: https://payments.africastalking.com
  description: Payments production host
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Premium SMS
  description: Premium SMS subscriptions and checkout tokens.
paths:
  /checkout/token/create:
    post:
      operationId: createCheckoutToken
      tags:
      - Premium SMS
      summary: Create checkout token
      description: Generate a checkout token for a phone number, required before creating a premium SMS subscription.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - phoneNumber
              properties:
                phoneNumber:
                  type: string
                  description: Subscriber phone number in international format.
                  example: +254711XXXYYY
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Checkout token created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CheckoutTokenResponse'
  /subscription/create:
    post:
      operationId: createSubscription
      tags:
      - Premium SMS
      summary: Create premium SMS subscription
      description: Subscribe a phone number to a premium SMS product using a checkout token.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SubscriptionRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Subscription created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SubscriptionResponse'
  /subscription/delete:
    post:
      operationId: deleteSubscription
      tags:
      - Premium SMS
      summary: Delete premium SMS subscription
      description: Unsubscribe a phone number from a premium SMS product.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - username
              - shortCode
              - keyword
              - phoneNumber
              properties:
                username:
                  type: string
                shortCode:
                  type: string
                keyword:
                  type: string
                phoneNumber:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Subscription deleted.
  /subscription:
    get:
      operationId: fetchSubscriptions
      tags:
      - Premium SMS
      summary: Fetch premium SMS subscriptions
      parameters:
      - name: username
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: shortCode
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: keyword
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: lastReceivedId
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: '0'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of subscriptions.
components:
  schemas:
    SubscriptionResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          example: Success
        description:
          type: string
          example: Waiting for user input
    CheckoutTokenResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        description:
          type: string
          example: Success
        token:
          type: string
          example: CkTkn_SampleCkTknId123
    SubscriptionRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - username
      - shortCode
      - keyword
      - phoneNumber
      - checkoutToken
      properties:
        username:
          type: string
        shortCode:
          type: string
          description: Premium SMS short code mapped to your account.
        keyword:
          type: string
          description: Premium SMS keyword mapped to your short code.
        phoneNumber:
          type: string
        checkoutToken:
          type: string
          description: Token returned by /checkout/token/create.
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: apiKey
      description: Africa's Talking API key generated from your account dashboard.