Sends a SMS message using Esendex's REST API using Python

send.py

# Uses requests library
# http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install/

import requests
import base64


username = "user@domain.com"
password = "password" # Sorry no API keys!
accountReference = "EX0123456" # https://www.esendex.com/echo (on the right hand side EX12345)
recipient = "447123456789" # Your number
message = "Hello world!"


authHeader = 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(("%s:%s" % (username, password)).encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
headers = { 'Authorization': authHeader }

data = {'accountreference': accountReference, 'messages': [ { "to": recipient, "body": message } ]}

r = requests.post("http://api.esendex.com/v1.0/messagedispatcher", headers=headers, json=data)


if r.status_code == 200 :
  print("It worked!")
else :
  print("Something went wrong")
  print(r.status_code)
  print(r.text)