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ddoor
ddoor

Reputation: 5963

Get all SMS from a particular number in inbox - Esendex

I am using the Esendex Rest API http://developers.esendex.com/APIs/REST-API/inbox and I am trying to get all the messages in the inbox from a particular phone number.

This is basically so if I do a send out of SMS's and someone replies I am able to retrieve the reply.

I can currently get all the messages in the inbox into an array and sort them, but this is too slow with over 4000 messages.

Does anyone know if I can filter by phone number, or at least date-received in my API requests? Even if I could get the last weeks worth of SMS's.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 642

Answers (2)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 242

There's currently no way to do this via the REST API but I'll see if we can add it over the next couple of weeks (I work for Esendex). As you note the functionality already exists in the Conversations API albeit in a more minimal form.

In the meantime you could achieve this by checking all messages that arrive either by polling the Inbox or using Push Notifications.

Upvotes: 1

Birla
Birla

Reputation: 1174

You can try to use the conversation API if you want to filter by a phone number. The drawback is that you can get only the latest 15 messages, also that there is no reliable way to detect if a reply has been received from a phone number other than the inbox API. Apart from this I wasn't able to find anything that can help you. Their API is very restrictive and minimal.

Upvotes: 3

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