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Bird Send Sms Example

Example of a POST request to /messages to send an SMS to a single recipient.

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Bird Send Sms Example is an example object payload from Bird, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "summary": "Send an SMS message via Bird (MessageBird) SMS API",
  "description": "Example of a POST request to /messages to send an SMS to a single recipient.",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://rest.messagebird.com/messages",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "AccessKey YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "originator": "MessageBird",
      "body": "Hello! This is a test message from Bird.",
      "recipients": [31612345678]
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 201,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "id": "49e40bae0b374f1ca5e3d04d46edc7c1",
      "href": "https://rest.messagebird.com/messages/49e40bae0b374f1ca5e3d04d46edc7c1",
      "direction": "mt",
      "type": "sms",
      "originator": "MessageBird",
      "body": "Hello! This is a test message from Bird.",
      "reference": null,
      "validity": null,
      "gateway": 10,
      "typeDetails": {},
      "datacoding": "plain",
      "mclass": 1,
      "scheduledDatetime": null,
      "createdDatetime": "2023-09-28T10:00:00+00:00",
      "recipients": {
        "totalCount": 1,
        "totalSentCount": 1,
        "totalDeliveredCount": 0,
        "totalDeliveryFailedCount": 0,
        "items": [
          {
            "recipient": 31612345678,
            "originator": "MessageBird",
            "status": "sent",
            "statusDatetime": "2023-09-28T10:00:01+00:00",
            "messagePartCount": 1
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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