Get SMS Length / Cost
SMS Length / Cost for SMSGatewayCenter APIs
Introduction to SMSGatewayCenter APIs
Welcome to SMSGatewayCenter’s API documentation hub! This guide introduces the Get SMS Length / Cost API, a practical tool in our messaging suite, including SMS API for bulk messaging, WhatsApp Business API for customer engagement, Voice Call API for automated alerts, and Two-Way SMS API for interactive communication. This API supports only POST methods over HTTP, securely calculating the length and cost of your SMS. Designed for developers in India, optimize your campaigns with our SMS gateway at unify.smsgateway.center/signup/!
Test your message (e.g., for campaign budgeting) with the Get SMS Length / Cost API. Input your text to get character count and cost, enhancing your bulk SMS planning with precise insights.
API Endpoint
https://unify.smsgateway.center/SMSApi/info/msg
| Key | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Login Credentials (Required) | ||
| Authenticate your API request using userid-password or apiKey—choose one method. | ||
| userid | Your Registered Username | Your registered username; use if apiKey isn’t provided. Signup for User ID |
| password | Your Password | URL-encoded password (for special characters); use if apiKey isn’t provided. Signup for API Key |
| Header (optional) Parameters | ||
| apiKey | Your unique apiKey | apiKey needs to be sent as HTTP header when you are not using userid-password method. You can avail this from your user control panel and use instead of userid-password HTTP Request parameter. Please do not disclose this to anyone. |
| Required Parameters | ||
| msg | Your message | Enter your message to get length count and cost. |
| output | plain|json|plain | Value for response format.System default is plain. If you need responses in json or plain then you have to give value as json or plain. |
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://unify.smsgateway.center/SMSApi/info/msg",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "userid=YourUsername&password=YourPassword&msg=Hello+World&output=json",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"cache-control: no-cache",
"content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
{
"response": {
"api": "info",
"action": "msg",
"status": "success",
"msg": "success",
"code": "200",
"count": 1,
"msgList": {
"encoding": "TEXT",
"length": 11,
"remaining": 149,
"credit": 1
}
}
}
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