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My current project requires us to receive text messages online. It's hard to wade through the search results as many of the are just websites with about 10 numbers for everyone to use.
I am looking for services along the lines of what is being offered at http://www.tropo.com
You can send and receive text messages online on your own private generated phone number within the US or Canada.
Preferably free, just need a few more before I make any decisions
Thanks!
Disclaimer, I do developer evangelism part time at Nexmo.
Here are a few paid SMS APIs:
Nexmo
Twilio
Tropo
You may be able to hack something together that works for free, but you risk that solution being disabled by whatever provider you use (for example, some people send SMS via Google Voice, but I wouldn't recommend relying on that).
Since you're receiving SMS, Nexmo would be a good solution when it comes to price. You only pay for the virtual number (roughly $1 a month), and all incoming messages are free.
Try www.twilio.com they have a good API and it is free while testing.
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Is there any public database containing current mobile carriers for phone numbers?
I find out that there are many paid services (like numverify.com) and static (not real time updated) database from Google (libphonenumber).
I am looking for free API or database like libphonenumber, but with actual data about mobile phone carrier (in countries where numbers can be moved from one carrier to another).
Thank you
Well there are a plenty of services available. All of them paid. They do offer a trial version with limited api requests.
You should note that the way to figure out which carrier a number belongs to will be country-specific.
The information is, at least there, not available to the public - I've known service providers, network operators and information providers (as in yellow pages) that have access.
But, wouldn't a proper sms gateway service do this for you?
The cheap ones out there you could try out are
1) Data24-7 offers an API for looking up the carrier for wireless phone numbers. It also returns the email addresses to send SMS and MMS messages to the phone. It's not free, it's $12 per month and $0.006 per lookup. Check it out on
http://www.data24-7.com/carrier24-7.php
2) Twilio is one of the most reliable service provider out there.
You can find some more providers here https://git.daplie.com/coolaj86/node-tel-carrier
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Is there an API that would let me access my AMEX transactions? How do Mint or any other finance websites export my data? If so, is it free?
Take a look at open financial exchange.
American Express appears to support this.
Mint uses the services of Yodlee (see here), a firm that essentially acts as middleware between banks and companies like Mint.
You might be interested in Yodlee's Account Data Gathering API but it looks like it is something that requires a formal agreement, and access to the API probably needs to be paid for..
MasterCard are also looking at releasing an API (see here) so maybe AMEX will follow suit?
You can find sample code, SDKs, and a variety of other open source work by American Express on GitHub.
Check the following URL for details description: https://developer.americanexpress.com/essentials
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is there an API to make phone calls an have a phone conversation in the web (maybe flash based?), like skype but without having to install software?
thanks
These will allow conversations:
http://www.callfire.com/dialer/cm/info/phone_call_api.html
http://www.callfire.com/dev/index.php/Click_to_call_API
http://public.ifbyphone.com/partners/developers
http://cloudvox.com/
See section Connect Cell Phones and Land Lines:
http://www.twilio.com/how-twilio-works
any US or Canadian phone number and connect the caller to that person.Enter one phone number, or many! If you specify multiple numbers, Twilio will ring them all until somebody answers.
http://api.hoiio.com/voice_call.html
The voice API by Hoiio connects 2 phone numbers. Support is international, to over 200 countries.
Victor: Yes, at least with Cloudvox and probably the others. Can place calls, receive them, connect two parties, connect two parties plus your script, or let people conference (also controlled by your code).
Home page & tour has the basics, and lots of code samples at http://help.cloudvox.com/ -Troy, Cloudvox
I would also hit the latest version of the CallFire API. It is a lot more developer-friendly. You should be able to launch phone calls and send text messages both in bulk or one-offs. https://developers.callfire.com/
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Does anyone know of a public API for historical traffic data?
Some quick googling pulls up an API from Yahoo which offers real-time data, but I'd be curious if anyone hosts a service for historical data - i.e., what was the "severity" (one of the attributes the Yahoo API returns) for a given location at a given date and time.
(I'm going to guess that such a thing doesn't exist today, or at least no public options, as this would be an immense amount of data to store, but it never hurts to ask...)
While yahoo has shut down its traffic apis, there are a number of companies providing traffic information.
HERE from Nokia
Traffic API from Microsoft
Traffic API from MapQuest
Predictive Traffic API from INRIX
These guys certainly have the data, but I don't know how easy it is to get access to the API: http://inrix.com/developers
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Exccuse me,
may I ask is there any API for sending SMS mesaages to mobile phone through programming?
If there is any, may I ask if there is any recommended one which is morer reliable and have more reasonable prices?
Using SMPP is overkill unless you are planning to send smses at the speed of 50 a second or more.
For incidental sending of SMSes you can use HTTP calls to a SMS gateway. The Call will be similar to:
http://www.somesmsgateway.com/api.php?to=31612345678&msg=helloworld&username=yourusername&password=yourpassword
an example of such a gateway is clickatell
Take look at Smpp OpenSource
SUMMARY:
SMPP stands for Short Message Peer to
Peer. It is a communication protocol
designed for transfer of short
messages between short message centre
and SMS application.
Zeep Mobile or use an Aggregator
There are tons of SMS providers. You should take a look at PW,
Nexmo, Twilio, Hoiio, Zeepmobile, etc comes to mind.