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Send SMS Texts using our XML API

Use an XML format to send SMS messages

We also offer a bulk XML interface for sending different messages to multiple recipients in bulk. This option is perfect for mail-merging text. We recommend no more than 500 tags in each submission. View our XML SMS API message prices or signup and start using XML to SMS today with 10 free texts.

Post your requests to http://www.txtlocal.com/xmlapi.php
Use 1 'SMS' tag per submission
Each message should be contained in a 'Msg' tag
If necessary, specify the custom ID in the 'ID' property
If necessary, specify a receipt notification URL in the 'rcpurl' property

Code Examples

We have a number of code examples available, however if you see a language that we don't have, please contact us and we'll create one for you.

PHP
VB .Net

								<?php
								$xmlData = '
								<SMS>
								<Account Name="yourusername" Password="yourpassword" Test="0" Info="1" JSON="0">
								<Sender From="Site 3" Sched="2012-01-21-14-59-00" rcpurl="http://yourdomain/yourreceiptscript.123">
								<Messages>
								<Msg ID="15" Number="447123456789">
								<Text></Text>
								</Msg>
								<Msg ID="16" Number="447123456789">
								<Text></Text>
								</Msg>
								</Messages>
								</Sender>
								</Account>
								</SMS>'; 
								$post = 'data='. urlencode($xmlData); 
								$url = "http://www.txtlocal.com/xmlapi.php";
								$ch = curl_init(); 
								curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
								curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST ,1); 
								curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS ,$post); 
								curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,1); 
								$data = curl_exec($ch); 
								curl_close($ch);
								echo $data; 
								?>

								Imports System.Net
								Imports System
								Imports System.IO
								Imports System.Text
								
								Module xmlTest
								
									Sub Main()
										Dim xml As String 
										Dim response As String
									
										xml = "
											<SMS>
												<Account Name="yourusername" Password="yourpassword" Test="0" Info="1" JSON="0">
													<Sender From="Site 3" Sched="2012-01-21-14-59-00" rcpurl="http://yourdomain/yourreceiptscript.123">
														<Messages>
															<Msg ID="15" Number="447123456789">
																<Text></Text>
															</Msg>
															<Msg ID="16" Number="447123456789">
																<Text></Text>
															</Msg>
														</Messages>
													</Sender>
												</Account>
											</SMS>"
									
										response = sendxml(xml)
										Console.WriteLine(response)
										
									End Sub
								
									Private Function sendxml(ByVal xmldata As String) As String
										' Send a message using the txtLocal transport
										Const TransportURL As String ="http://www.txtlocal.com/xmlapi.php"
										Dim strPost As String
										
										' Build POST String
										strPost = "data=" + xmldata
										' Create POST
										Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(TransportURL)
										request.Method = "POST"
										Dim byteArray As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(strPost)
										request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
										request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length
										Dim dataStream As Stream = request.GetRequestStream()
										dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length)
										dataStream.Close()
										' Get the response.
										Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
										dataStream = response.GetResponseStream()
										Dim reader As New StreamReader(dataStream)
										Dim responseFromServer As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
										' Clean upthe streams.
										reader.Close()
										dataStream.Close()
										response.Close()
										' Return result to calling function
										If responseFromServer.Length > 0 Then
											Return responseFromServer
										Else
											Return CType(response, HttpWebResponse).StatusDescription
										End If
									End Function
								End Module

Debugging/Error Information

The following responses will be generated, accordingly:

OK	The XML file has been received and processed
Error while parsing the document	The XML format is not valid
Error=Invalid login	Invalid username and/or password
Error - insufficient credits. You need: 10 credits	Insufficient credits

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