Optus SMS Suite SMS Gateway REST API v2
High-volume asynchronous SMS API using UUID-based message tracking, mandatory delivery-receipt (DLR) callbacks, and advanced scheduling. Requests are authenticated with HTTP Basic credentials passed in the Authorization header via the platform's GatewayAuthorizer scheme.
Optus SMS Suite SMS Gateway REST API v2 is one of 10 APIs that Optus publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include SMS, Messaging, REST, and Webhook. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, an OpenAPI specification, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 3 operations across 2 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/sms/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Optus SMS Suite SMS Gateway REST API v2 declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (GatewayAuthorizer).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
GatewayAuthorizer— HTTP Basic Authentication is used for all authenticated requests.
Paths & Operations 3
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 2 GET, 1 POST. They span 2 resource areas: documentation, messages. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SingleMessage (10 properties), MessageDetails (7 properties), ReplyCallback (5 properties), StatusCallback (3 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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