Clockwork SMS API for Python

Install

The easiest way to install is through "pip":

pip install clockwork

Requirements

• Python 2.6+

Usage

Send a single SMS message

from clockwork import clockwork
api = clockwork.API('API_KEY_GOES_HERE') #Be careful not to post your API Keys to public repositories.
message = clockwork.SMS(to = '441234123456', message = 'This is a test message.')
response = api.send(message)

if response.success:
    print (response.id)
else:
    print (response.error_code)
    print (response.error_message)

Send multiple SMS messages

Simply pass an array of sms objects to the send method. Instead of sending back a single sms response, an array of sms responses will be returned:

from clockwork import clockwork
api = clockwork.API('API_KEY_GOES_HERE') #Be careful not to post your API Keys to public repositories.
message1 = clockwork.SMS(to = '441234123456', message = 'This is a test message 1.')
message2 = clockwork.SMS(to = '441234123457', message = 'This is a test message 2.')
message3 = clockwork.SMS(to = '441234123458', message = 'This is a test message 3.')
response = api.send([message1,message2,message3])

for sms_response in response:
    if sms_response.success:
        print (sms_response.id)
    else:
        print (sms_response.error_code)
        print (sms_response.error_message)

Passing an array of messages to the send method is much more efficient than making multiple calls to the send method; as well making less round-trips to the server the messages are "batched" in clockwork, which is significantly better for performance.

Send messages - available parameters

This wrapper supports a subset of the available clockwork API parameters for sending (for the full set see here).

Setting parameters for all messages

You create an api object with api = clockwork.API(api_key,[optional_setting = value,..] The optional_setting parameters allows you to set the following, which will be used for all messages sent through the api object:

Parameter	Description
from_name	Sets the from name
concat	Sets the concat setting
invalid_char_option	Sets the InvalidCharOption setting
truncate	Sets the truncate setting

So for example if I want all messages to use the from address 'bobby', I would do:

    api = clockwork.API('MY_API_KEY', from_name = 'Bobby') 

Setting parameters for each message.

You create an sms object with sms = clockwork.SMS(to = 'xxx', message = 'xxx', [optional_setting = value,..]

In a similar pattern to the API parameters, the optional_setting parameters allows you to set the following additional parameters for an individual message:

Parameter	Description
client_id	Sets the ClientId setting
from_name	Sets the from name
invalid_char_option	Sets the InvalidCharOption setting
truncate	Sets the truncate setting

Any parameters defined here will take precedence over the same one defined on the api object:

api = clockwork.API('MY_API_KEY',from_name = 'Bobby')
sms = clockwork.SMS(to = '441234123456', message = 'This is a test message 1.', from_name = 'Sammy')
response = api.send(sms) # WILL SEND WITH FROM ADDRESS 'Sammy'

Check balance

from clockwork import clockwork
api = clockwork.API('API_KEY_GOES_HERE')  #Be careful not to post your API Keys to public repositories.
balance = api.get_balance()
print (balance) # => {'currency': None, 'balance': '231.03', 'account_type': 'PAYG'}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT open-source license.

A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.txt

Contributing

If you have any feedback on this wrapper drop us an email to [email protected].

The project is hosted on GitHub at http://www.github.com/mediaburst/clockwork-python.

If you would like to contribute a bug fix or improvement please fork the project and submit a pull request. Please add tests for your use case.

Changelog

1.2.0 (24th February 2016)

• Removed lxml dependency

1.1.0 (5th January 2015)

• Python3 Support

1.03 (23rd December 2014)

• Replacing Distribute with Setuptools

1.0.2 (18th May 2014)

• Unicode support added [MR]

1.0.1 (01st September, 2013)

• Minor changes

1.0.0 (01st August, 2013)

• Initial release of wrapper [MR]

Credits and Acknowledgements

Thanks to zeroSteiner for removing the lxml dependency and bringing ElementTree into the wrapper.

Thanks to bjornpost for his work on Python 3 support and replacing Distribute with Setuptools

Many thanks to cHemingway for adding Unicode support.