# Africa's Talking SMS API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-sms-api/  
**Provider:** Africa's Talking — https://apis.io/providers/africastalking/  
**Base URL:** https://api.africastalking.com/version1  
**Documentation:** https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview

Africa's Talking SMS API is one of 6 APIs that [Africa's Talking](https://apis.io/providers/africastalking/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include SMS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

Send single and bulk SMS and fetch inbox messages.

## Machine-readable artifacts (12)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/africastalking/refs/heads/main/openapi/africastalking-sms-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
- **APIReference** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
- **PostmanCollection** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/africastalking/refs/heads/main/collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
- **APIReference** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
- **APIReference** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
- **Documentation** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
- **APIReference** — https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout

## Other Africa's Talking APIs (5)

- [Africa's Talking Airtime API](https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-airtime-api/)
- [Africa's Talking Mobile Data API](https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-mobile-data-api/)
- [Africa's Talking Payments API](https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-payments-api/)
- [Africa's Talking Premium SMS API](https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-premium-sms-api/)
- [Africa's Talking Voice API](https://apis.io/apis/africastalking/africastalking-voice-api/)

## Tags

SMS

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