Exotel SMS API
Send SMS and retrieve message details.
Exotel SMS API is one of 6 APIs that Exotel publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include SMS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.exotel.com, https://api.in.exotel.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Exotel SMS API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
basicAuth— HTTP Basic authentication. Username = API Key, Password = API Token (both from Exotel Dashboard - Settings - API Settings). May also be embedded in the URL as…
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Send SMS and retrieve message details.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SendSmsRequest (10 properties), SmsResponse (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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