Introduction
This is the official API documentation for ClickSend
Below you will find a current list of the available methods for ClickSend.
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Postman
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Authentication
Basic HTTP authentication should be used in the header.
username: Your API username
password: Your API key
You can get your API credentials by clicking 'API Credentials' on the top right of the dashboard.
Authorization Header
The Authorization header is constructed as follows:
-
Username and password are combined into a string
username:password - The resulting string is then encoded using Base64 encoding
- The authorization method and a space i.e. "Basic " is then put before the encoded string.
PHP Authentication Header Example (using cURL)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode("$username:$password")]);
Verbs
The API uses restful verbs.
| Verb | Description |
|---|---|
GET |
Select one or more items. Success returns 200 status code. |
POST |
Create a new item. Success returns 200 status code. |
PUT |
Update an item. Success returns 200 status code. |
DELETE |
Delete an item. Success returns 200 status code. |
Status Codes
The API will respond with one of the following HTTP status codes.
| Status | Response | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | SUCCESS | Request completed successfully. |
| 201 | CREATED | Request has been fulfilled and has resulted in one or more new resources being created |
| 204 | NO_CONTENT | the server has successfully fulfilled the request and that there is no additional content to send in the response payload body |
| 400 | BAD_REQUEST | The request was invalid or cannot be otherwise served. An accompanying error message will explain further. |
| 401 | UNAUTHORIZED | Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect. |
| 403 | FORBIDDEN | The request is understood, but it has been refused or access is not allowed. An accompanying error message will explain why. |
| 404 | NOT_FOUND | The URI requested is invalid or the resource requested does not exists. |
| 405 | METHODNOTALLOWED | Method doesn't exist or is not allowed. |
| 429 | TOOMANYREQUESTS | Rate Limit Exceeded. Returned when a request cannot be served due to the application’s rate limit having been exhausted for the resource. See Rate Limiting. |
| 500 | INTERNALSERVERERROR | Something is broken |
Application Status Codes
The following status codes can be returned in addition to the HTTP status code. For example, when using the Send SMS endpoint:
| Response | Description |
|---|---|
SUCCESS |
Message added to queue OK. Use delivery reports to get an update on the delivery status. |
MISSING_CREDENTIALS |
Not enough information has been supplied for authentication. Please ensure that your Username and Unique Key are supplied in your request. |
ACCOUNT_NOT_ACTIVATED |
Your account has not been activated. |
INVALID_RECIPIENT |
The destination mobile number is invalid. |
THROTTLED |
Identical message body recently sent to the same recipient. Please try again in a few seconds. |
INVALID_SENDER_ID |
Invalid Sender ID. Please ensure Sender ID is no longer than 11 characters (if alphanumeric), and contains no spaces. |
INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT |
You have reached the end of your message credits. You will need to purchase more message credits. |
INVALID_CREDENTIALS |
Your Username or Unique Key is incorrect. |
COUNTRY_NOT_ENABLED |
This country is not enabled on your account. |
ALREADY_EXISTS |
The resource you're trying to add already exists. |
EMPTY_MESSAGE |
Message is empty. |
TOO_MANY_RECIPIENTS |
Too many recipients. |
MISSING_REQUIRED_FIELDS |
Some required fields are missing. |
INVALID_SCHEDULE |
The schedule specified is invalid. Use a unix timestamp e.g. 1429170372. |
NOT_ENOUGH_PERMISSION_TO_LIST_ID |
Don't have enough privilege to access or send to a list_id. |
INTERNAL_ERROR |
Internal error. |
INVALID_LANG |
An invalid language option has been provided. |
INVALID_VOICE |
An invalid voice (gender) option has been provided. |
SUBJECT_REQUIRED |
Usually happens when MMS Subject is empty. |
INVALID_MEDIA_FILE |
Usually MMS media file is invalid file. |
SOMETHING_IS_WRONG |
Generic Error happened. |
REGISTRATION_NEEDED |
You are sending to recipients from a country that requires a registered Sender ID. Please visit Global Sending and follow the registration steps. You may be able to send to your own number without registering a Sender ID by including it as the only recipient. |
LINK_GENERATION_FAILED |
We were unable to generate a unique short url code for the message. |
Required Headers
You'll need to send some headers when making API calls.
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
Content-type |
application/json |
Pagination
Some methods are paginated. By default, 1 page of 15 items will be returned. You can set the pagination parameters by adding ?page={page}&limit={limit} to the URL.
Request
| Parameter | Type | Default | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
page |
integer | 1 |
The page number to return in the response. |
limit |
integer | 15 |
The number of results per page. Min 15, Max 100. |
Response
| Attribute | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
total |
integer | Total number of results available. |
per_page |
integer | Number of results returned per page. |
current_page |
integer | Current page number. |
last_page |
integer | Last page number. |
next_page_url |
string | A URL of the next page. null if not available. |
prev_page_url |
string | A URL of the previous page. null if not available. |
from |
integer | Number of the first result in current page. |
to |
integer | Number of the last result in current page. |
Searching and Sorting
Most GET endpoints allow searching and sorting. Searches are not case-sensitive.
Search
To perform a search, add q as a query parameter. For example:
/subaccounts?q=field:value,field2:value
Order
To perform a sort, add order_by as a query parameter. For example:
/subaccounts?order_by=field:desc/asc
AND / OR
By default, it will search using the AND operator. This can be set using operator as a query parameter. For example:
/subaccounts?q=field:value&operator=OR
Options:
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AND- returns results matching all query fields specified -
OR- returns results matching any query fields specified
Example
/subaccounts?q=first_name:john,last_name:smith&order_by=subaccount_id:asc&operator=AND
CORS
When creating your API app, specify the JavaScript (CORS) origins you'll be using. We use these origins to return the headers needed for CORS.
Date and Time
All date/timestamps will be returned in Unix time (also known as POSIX time or erroneously as Epoch time) with no leap seconds.
For example: 1435255816 (ISO 8601: 2015-06-25T18:10:16Z) More information: Wikipedia: Unix time.
There is ony one Unix time and it is created by using the UTC/GMT time zone. This means you might have convert time zones to calculate timestamps. Most programming language have libraries to help you converting time zones.
The current Unix time can be found here: Epoch Converter