Send Bulk SMS

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the Node.js SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
Node.js and the Plivo Node.js SDK installed. See our Node.js setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a file named send_bulk_sms.js and paste this code into it. To send a message to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations array.

const plivo = require('plivo');

async function sendBulkSms() {
  const client = new plivo.Client("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");

  const destinations = [
    "<destination_number_1>", // E.g., "+14155551234"
    "<destination_number_2>"  // E.g., "+14155555678"
  ];

  try {
    const response = await client.messages.create({
      src: "<sender_id>",
      dst: destinations.join("<"), // Delimiter is '<'
      text: "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout"
    });
    console.log("Message sent successfully:", response);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error sending message:", error);
  }
}

sendBulkSms();

Test

Save the file and run it from your terminal.

node send_bulk_sms.js

You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the Ruby SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
Ruby and the Plivo Ruby SDK installed. See our Ruby setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a file named send_bulk_sms.rb and paste this code into it. To send a message to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations array.

require "plivo"
include Plivo

destinations = [
  "<destination_number_1>", # E.g., "+14155551234"
  "<destination_number_2>"  # E.g., "+14155555678"
]

begin
  api = RestClient.new("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>")
  response = api.messages.create(
    src: "<sender_id>",
    dst: destinations.join("<"), # Delimiter is '<'
    text: "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout",
  )
  puts response
rescue PlivoRESTError => e
  puts "Error: " + e.message
end

Test

Save the file and run it from your terminal.

ruby send_bulk_sms.rb

You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the Python SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
Python and the Plivo Python SDK installed. See our Python setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a file named send_bulk_sms.py and paste this code into it. To send a message to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations list.

import plivo
from plivo.exceptions import PlivoRestError

destinations = [
    "<destination_number_1>",  # E.g., "+14155551234"
    "<destination_number_2>"   # E.g., "+14155555678"
]

try:
    client = plivo.RestClient('<auth_id>', '<auth_token>')
    response = client.messages.create(
        src='<sender_id>',
        dst='<'.join(destinations),  # Delimiter is '<'
        text='Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout',
    )
    print(response)
except PlivoRestError as e:
    print(e)

Test

Save the file and run it from your terminal.

python send_bulk_sms.py

You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the PHP SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
PHP and the Plivo PHP SDK installed. See our PHP setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a file named SendBulkSMS.php and paste this code into it. To send a message to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the $destinations array.

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Plivo\RestClient;
use Plivo\Exceptions\PlivoRestException;

$destinations = [
    "<destination_number_1>", // E.g., "+14155551234"
    "<destination_number_2>"  // E.g., "+14155555678"
];

try {
    $client = new RestClient("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
    $response = $client->messages->create(
        [
            "src" => "<sender_id>",
            "dst" => implode("<", $destinations), // Delimiter is '<'
            "text" => "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout",
        ]
    );
    print_r($response);
} catch (PlivoRestException $e) {
    echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}
?>

Test

Save the file and run it from your terminal.

php SendBulkSMS.php

You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the .NET SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
.NET and the Plivo .NET SDK installed. See our .NET setup guide.

Create and run the application

In your Program.cs file, paste this code. To send to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations list.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Plivo;

namespace PlivoExamples
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var destinations = new List<string> {
                "<destination_number_1>", // E.g., "+14155551234"
                "<destination_number_2>"  // E.g., "+14155555678"
            };

            var api = new PlivoApi("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
            try
            {
                var response = api.Message.Create(
                    src: "<sender_id>",
                    dst: string.Join("<", destinations), // Delimiter is '<'
                    text: "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout"
                );
                Console.WriteLine(response);
            }
            catch (Plivo.PlivoRestException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

Test

Save the file and run it. You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the Java SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
Java and the Plivo Java SDK installed. See our Java setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a Java class named SendBulkSMS and paste this code into it. To send to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations list.

import com.plivo.api.Plivo;
import com.plivo.api.exceptions.PlivoRestException;
import com.plivo.api.models.message.Message;
import com.plivo.api.models.message.MessageCreateResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

class SendBulkSMS {
    public static void main(String [] args) {
        List<String> destinations = Arrays.asList(
            "<destination_number_1>", // E.g., "+14155551234"
            "<destination_number_2>"  // E.g., "+14155555678"
        );

        Plivo.init("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
        try {
            MessageCreateResponse response = Message.creator(
                "<sender_id>",
                String.join("<", destinations), // Delimiter is '<'
                "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout"
            ).create();
            System.out.println(response);
        } catch (PlivoRestException | IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Test

Save the file, compile, and run it. You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

Overview

This guide shows how to send an SMS message to multiple phone numbers at once using Plivo’s APIs and the Go SDK.

Prerequisites

A Plivo account — sign up for free if you don’t have one.
An SMS-enabled Plivo phone number. You can rent a number from the Plivo console.
Go and the Plivo Go SDK installed. See our Go setup guide.

Create and run the application

Create a file named SendBulkSMS.go and paste this code into it. To send to multiple numbers, join the destination numbers with the delimiter <.Replace the <auth_id>, <auth_token>, and <sender_id> placeholders with your actual values, and add the destination numbers to the destinations slice.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "[github.com/plivo/plivo-go/v7](https://github.com/plivo/plivo-go/v7)"
)

func main() {
    destinations := []string{
        "<destination_number_1>", // E.g., "+14155551234"
        "<destination_number_2>",  // E.g., "+14155555678"
    }

    client, err := plivo.NewClient("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>", &plivo.ClientOptions{})
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    response, err := client.Messages.Create(
        plivo.MessageCreateParams{
            Src:  "<sender_id>",
            Dst:  strings.Join(destinations, "<"), // Delimiter is '<'
            Text: "Flash sale — half price on all products — offer expires at midnight. Use code 50OFF at checkout",
        },
    )
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("Response: %#v\n", response)
}

Test

Save the file and run it from your terminal.

go run SendBulkSMS.go

You should receive the SMS on all destination phones.

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Send Bulk SMS

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Getting Started

Concepts

API Reference

XML Reference

Tutorials

Migration Guides

Troubleshooting

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Create and run the application

​Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

Test

Overview

Prerequisites

Create and run the application

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