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Note

The MailUp transactional API for SMS does not use OAuth 2.0. Please refer to the "Getting started" section below for details.

Overview

The MailUp transactional API for text messages (SMS) is the best choice when you have to send single sending individual text messages, regardless of the number of messages you need to send.

The main features of this API are the following:

  • sending is immediate
  • authentication is very simple
  • it works on http with HTTP post, then which means that you can use the "send" command as a callback function into a in any system that supports webhooks

 

Code Block
languagegroovy
titleExample
POST https://sendsms.mailup.com/api/v2.0/sms/{account_ID}/{List_ID} HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: sendsms.mailup.com
Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 428
{
"Content":"Hi [Name], welcome to [City]",
"ListGuid":"xxxxxxxx-aaa-bbbb-cccc-e3a98b626156",
"ListSecret":"yyyyyyyy-ddd-eeee-ffff-3e1cb0e6e64c",
"Recipient":"+393350000001",
"CampaignCode":"Welcome messages",
"DynamicFields":[{"N":"Name","V":"John"},{"N":"City","V":"Cremona"}],
"isUnicode":0
}

 

Getting started

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Getting started

Using the ListSecret parameter

In order to send an SMS you need to know the "ListSecret" value of the MailUp list you are using.  "ListSecret" is an additional field that has been added to introduce a level of security to these API methods, it is list specific and it can be enabled/disabled using APIsYou can perform GET, POST, DELETE on /lists/{List_ID}/listsecret resource, Basic Authentication is required.

 

  • You can use the GET

...

  •  method to check if a ListSecret

...

  • already exists.
  • If it does not, you

...

  • can use the POST method to create it.
  • As soon as you get the value of ListSecret you can start sending text messages (refer to next paragraph) with no restrictions. 

If you want to disable the ability to send transactional SMS on that list, you can use DELETE method. This method can also be used - followed by a POST method - to change an existing ListSecret value. 

All these methods require Basic Authentication, hence an encoded value must be specified as header

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Format: "Authorization: Basic " + Base64(username:password)

...

groovy
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language

Example: username=m1234, password=hello123, Base64(m1234:hello123)=bTEyMzQ6aGVsbG8xMjM=  => Authorization: Basic bTEyMzQ6aGVsbG8xMjM=

Once you have obtained the value of the ListSecret parameter:

  • you can start sending transactional text messages (see example below)
  • basic authentication is no longer required in those API calls

Retrieving, creating, and deleting the ListSecret parameter


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titleGET - Read ListSecret


Code Block
languagegroovy
-- Request
GET https://sendsms.mailup.com/api/v2.0/lists/1/listsecret HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Authorization: Basic aBcDeFgHiLmNoPqRsTuVz
Host: sendsms.mailup.com
Content-Length: 0
 
-- Response 1 (when ListSecret does not exist)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 71
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:39:24 GMT
{"Data":{"ListSecret":null},"Code":"0","Description":"","State":"DONE"}
 
-- Response 2 (when ListSecret exists)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 105
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:45:39 GMT
{"Data":{"ListSecret":""yyyyyyyy-ddd-eeee-ffff-3e1cb0e6e64c"},"Code":"0","Description":"","State":"DONE"}

...


 

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languagegroovy
titlePOST - Create ListSecret


Code Block
languagegroovy
POST https://sendsms.mailup.com/api/v2.0/lists/{List_ID}/listsecret HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Authorization: Basic aBcDeFgHiLmNoPqRsTuVz
Host: sendsms.mailup.com
Content-Length: 55
Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose;charset=utf-8
{
"ListGUID":"xxxxxxxx-aaa-bbbb-cccc-e3a98b626156"
}

...


 

- Remove ListSecret
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titleDELETE - Remove ListSecret


Code Block
languagegroovy
title
DELETE
DELETE
 https://sendsms.mailup.com/api/v2.0/lists/1/listsecret?listGUID=xxxxxxxx-aaa-bbbb-cccc-e3a98b626156 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Authorization: Basic aBcDeFgHiLmNoPqRsTuVz
Host: sendsms.mailup.com
Content-Length: 0

 

How to send an SMS

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Sending a transactional SMS

The example below sends an SMS to the number +393350000001

Code Block
languagegroovy
titleExampleRequest
POST https://sendsms.mailup.com/api/v2.0/sms/{account_ID}/{List_ID} HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: sendsms.mailup.com
Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 428
{
"Content":"Hi [Name], welcome to [City]",
"ListGuid":"xxxxxxxx-aaa-bbbb-cccc-e3a98b626156",
"ListSecret":"yyyyyyyy-ddd-eeee-ffff-3e1cb0e6e64c",
"Recipient":"+393350000001",
"CampaignCode":"Welcome messages",
"DynamicFields":[{"N":"Name","V":"John"},{"N":"City","V":"Cremona"}],
"isUnicode":0
}

Anchor
Transactional_SMS_parameters
Transactional_SMS_parameters
Request

 Key that must be specified on MailUp console in order to enable this API (it’s an auto-generated GUID)
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titleClick here to learn more about request parameters...


Parameter

Description

Type

Account ID

Console ID

MailUp account ID (e.g. if the main user is "m59484", then the account ID is 59848).

Integer

List ID

List identifier

MailUp list identifier for the selected account.

Integer

List GUID

Hash code that identifies the

list (must match with List ID)

specified MailUp list.

String

List Secret

ListSecret

Auto-generated GUID that can be used to enable or disable the use of this API. Together with the "List GUID" value, it is used to provide a security enforcement. See the sections above to learn how to get it.

String

CampaignCode

Used to aggregate statistics on MailUp under a container text message whose name correspond to the specified text string. If

a message named as

the specified value does not

exists

exist,

then

a new

record

item is created

in “SMS” table, otherwise

. Otherwise the existing one is reused.

String

Content

Message text

The text of the message to be sent. No parsing nor length check is required.

(Messages

SIZE LIMIT: messages longer than

459 characters

670 characters are truncated by the sending engine

)

.

String

Recipient

The recipient’s number.

Use

Include the international prefix (either with 00 or +),

otherwise
  • New = subscribe and send

  • Subscribed = send

  • Pending or Unsubscribed =do not send

    or the default list prefix will be applied.

    (Ask for MailUp standard regex for phone numbers).

    Only a single phone number is allowed

    Always check subscription status on specified list (SMS_Optin table)

    String

    DynamicFields

    An array of value pairs that allows you to use merge tags in your transactional text messages.String

    IsUnicode

    (optional) Boolean value indicating whether to use Western alphabets only (0 means "false"), or Eastern alphabets as well, such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and so on (1 means "true").

    The

    client is in charge of deciding

    caller is responsible for specifying if the message contains Unicode characters.

    Boolean

    Sender

    (optional) Message sender. It can be numeric or alphanumeric but some restrictions may apply. As a consequence, when the sender value is not allowed, the message may be blocked or the sender may be replaced.

    We recommend you to specify this value only when you are confident about the delivery result (e.g. you've already tested it using the MailUp web platform), otherwise it is better to not specify this parameter in the request.

    In addition, in some countries the sender may be subject to local restrictions and it may be overwritten by the carriers before being delivered. You can contact us if you need support for some specific nations.

    String*

    TemplateId(optional) reference to a MailUp message ID that has already been defined on MailUp. Do not add the "Content" parameter if you want to use TemplateId Integer

    * max 11 chars, only letters and numbers (a-zA-Z0-9)


    Response

    ...

    The message was sent but the statistics are incorrect due to an error
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    titleClick here for details about error codes...

    This table shows possible HTTP response statuses that can be returned by the this API methods , and the corresponding error code provided by the application (inside the response).

     


    HTTP response code

    Application Code

    Description

    200

    0

    Ok.

    200301The message was sent but the statistics are incorrect due to an error

    400

    100

    No request found

    400

    101

    Missing or empty parameters

    400

    102

    ListGUID is not valid for the current account or list

    400

    103

    ListSecret is not valid for the current account or list

    400

    104

    SMS sender name is empty for list nr. N

    400

    105

    Number or Prefix missing in the recipient

    400

    106

    Recipient is invalid

    400

    107

    Content too long

    403

    201

    listID is not valid for the current account or list

    403

    202

    ListGUID is not in a correct format

    403

    203

    ListSecret is not in a correct format

    403

    204

    Cannot send SMS to USA recipient

    403

    205

    Sending denied: NO CREDITS

    403

    206

    SMS number [recipient] is in optout state for list nr.[idList].

    403

    207

    Provided SMS sender

    isn't

    is not certified and

    can't

    cannot be used to send messages

    403

    250

    Access denied

    500

    300

    Operation failed: a generic error occur

    500

    301

    500

    302

    Error delivering message to [recipient]

     

     

    ...

    In addition to HTTP and Application codes, a successful response has the following format:

    Code Block
    {"Data":{"DeliveryId":1648,"Cost":1.0},"Code":"0","Description":"","State":"DONE"}

    where DeliveryId is a unique identifier that can be used to retrieve the result of a specific sending (link), while Cost is the cost in credits of the sending operation.

    Note: in case of a response with HTTP code = 200 and Application code = 301, the message is properly sent and a cost is charged, but the returned value of DeliveryId is 0 (zero) and it not possible to retieve the result