Receiving an SMS

To receive an SMS, you need to:

  • Node
  • Java
  • .NET
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby

    • Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    npm install express body-parser
    Initialize your dependencies

    Create a file named receive-express.js and add the following code:

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    const app = require('express')()
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')

app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))

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    Write the code

    Add the following to receive-express.js:

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    app
  .route('/webhooks/inbound-sms')
  .get(handleInboundSms)
  .post(handleInboundSms)

function handleInboundSms(request, response) {
  const params = Object.assign(request.query, request.body)
  console.log(params)
  response.status(204).send()
}

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000)

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    Run your code

    Save this file to your machine and run it: 

    node receive-express.js

    Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    Add the following to build.gradle:

    compile 'com.nexmo:client:4.3.0'
    compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.7.2'

    Write the code

    Add the following to the main method of the ReceiveSMS class:

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        /*
     * Route to handle incoming SMS GET request.
     */
    Route inboundSmsAsGet = (req, res) -> {
        System.out.println("msisdn: " + req.queryParams("msisdn"));
        System.out.println("messageId: " + req.queryParams("messageId"));
        System.out.println("text: " + req.queryParams("text"));
        System.out.println("type: " + req.queryParams("type"));
        System.out.println("keyword: " + req.queryParams("keyword"));
        System.out.println("messageTimestamp: " + req.queryParams("message-timestamp"));

        res.status(204);
        return "";
    };

    /*
     * Route to handle incoming SMS with POST form-encoded or JSON body.
     */
    Route inboundSmsAsPost = (req, res) -> {
        // The body will be form-encoded or a JSON object:
        if (req.contentType().startsWith("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")) {
            System.out.println("msisdn: " + req.queryParams("msisdn"));
            System.out.println("messageId: " + req.queryParams("messageId"));
            System.out.println("text: " + req.queryParams("text"));
            System.out.println("type: " + req.queryParams("type"));
            System.out.println("keyword: " + req.queryParams("keyword"));
            System.out.println("messageTimestamp: " + req.queryParams("message-timestamp"));
        } else {
            MessageEvent event = MessageEvent.fromJson(req.body());

            System.out.println("msisdn: " + event.getMsisdn());
            System.out.println("messageId: " + event.getMessageId());
            System.out.println("text: " + event.getText());
            System.out.println("type: " + event.getType());
            System.out.println("keyword: " + event.getKeyword());
            System.out.println("messageTimestamp: " + event.getMessageTimestamp());
        }

        res.status(204);
        return "";
    };

    Spark.port(8080);
    Spark.get("/webhooks/inbound-sms", inboundSmsAsGet);
    Spark.post("/webhooks/inbound-sms", inboundSmsAsPost);
}

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    Run your code

    We can use the application plugin for Gradle to simplify the running of our application. Update your build.gradle with the following:

    apply plugin: 'application'
mainClassName = project.hasProperty('main') ? project.getProperty('main') : ''

    Run the following gradle command to execute your application, replacing com.nexmo.quickstart.sms with the package containing ReceiveSMS:

    gradle run -Pmain=com.nexmo.quickstart.sms.ReceiveSMS

    Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    Install-Package Nexmo.Csharp.Client
    Initialize your dependencies

    Create a file named SMSController.cs and add the following code:

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    var client = new Client(creds: new Nexmo.Api.Request.Credentials
{
    ApiKey = "NEXMO_API_KEY",
    ApiSecret = "NEXMO_API_SECRET"
});

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    Write the code

    Add the following to SMSController.cs:

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    public ActionResult Receive([FromUri]SMS.SMSInbound response)
{

    if (null != response.to && null != response.msisdn)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("------------------------------------");
        Debug.WriteLine("INCOMING TEXT");
        Debug.WriteLine("From: " + response.msisdn);
        Debug.WriteLine(" Message: " + response.text);
        Debug.WriteLine("------------------------------------");
        return new HttpStatusCodeResult(200);

    }
    else
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("------------------------------------");
        Debug.WriteLine("Endpoint was hit.");
        Debug.WriteLine("------------------------------------");
        return new HttpStatusCodeResult(200);

    }

}

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    Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    composer require slim/slim:^3.8
    Initialize your dependencies

    Create a file named index.php and add the following code:

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    $app = new \Slim\App;

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    Write the code

    Add the following to index.php:

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    $handler = function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $params = $request->getParsedBody();

    // Fall back to query parameters if needed
    if (!count($params)){
        $params = $request->getQueryParams();
    }

    error_log(print_r($params, true));

    return $response->withStatus(204);
};

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    Run your code

    Save this file to your machine and run it: 

    php -f index.php

    Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    pip install flask
    Initialize your dependencies

    Create a file named receive-flask.py and add the following code:

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    from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
from pprint import pprint

app = Flask(__name__)

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    Write the code

    Add the following to receive-flask.py:

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    @app.route('/webhooks/inbound-sms', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def inbound_sms():
    if request.is_json:
        pprint(request.get_json())
    else:
        data = dict(request.form) or dict(request.args)
        pprint(data)

    return ('', 204)

app.run(port=3000)

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    Run your code

    Save this file to your machine and run it: 

    python receive-flask.py

    Prerequisites

    Install dependencies

    gem install sinatra
    Initialize your dependencies

    Create a file named receive.rb and add the following code:

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    require 'sinatra'
require 'sinatra/multi_route'
require 'json'

helpers do
  def parsed_body
     json? ? JSON.parse(request.body.read) : {}
  end

  def json?
    request.content_type == 'application/json'
  end
end

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    Write the code

    Add the following to receive.rb:

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    route :get, :post, '/webhooks/inbound-sms' do
  puts params.merge(parsed_body)
  status 204
end

set :port, 3000

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    Run your code

    Save this file to your machine and run it: 

    ruby receive.rb

    Configure the webhook endpoint in your Nexmo Dashboard

    So that Nexmo knows how to access your webhook, you must configure it in your Nexmo account.

    In the code snippets, the webhook is located at /webhooks/inbound-sms. If you are using Ngrok, the webhook you need to configure in your Nexmo Dashboard API Settings page is of the form https://demo.ngrok.io/webhooks/inbound-sms. Replace demo with the subdomain provided by Ngrok and enter your endpoint in the field labeled Webhook URL for Inbound Message:

    #{alt_text}

    Try it out

    Now when you send your Nexmo number an SMS you should see it logged in your console. The message object contains the following properties:

    {
  "msisdn": "447700900001",
  "to": "447700900000",
  "messageId": "0A0000000123ABCD1",
  "text": "Hello world",
  "type": "text",
  "keyword": "Hello",
  "message-timestamp": "2020-01-01T12:00:00.000+00:00",
  "timestamp": "1578787200",
  "nonce": "aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-0123456789ab",
  "concat": "true",
  "concat-ref": "1",
  "concat-total": "3",
  "concat-part": "2",
  "data": "abc123",
  "udh": "abc123"
}