I assume this works via emailing the carriers (e.g. number@vtext.com),. If so, why not just release the source (or is that somewhere else?) over running your own service?
It looks like that's how they're doing it since they have the caveat of "may receive messages from txt@textbelt.com"
As for the open source comment -- they're probably running a carrier lookup on the numbers via another API on the back-end, so that dependency on another service doesn't make it as straightforward as just open sourcing it.
You'd need multiple IPs to go beyond 75/day. If you're going through the trouble to do all that, you might as well directly email phonenumber@txt.att.net, phonenumber@vtext.com etc. yourself ( http://hacknmod.com/hack/email-to-text-messages-for-att-veri... )
Nexmo offers 2 Euros for trial accounts (which you can sign up for unlimitedly). Let's say I'll use this get notified if my blog is under heavy traffic load every 5 minutes, how can I rely on it that it won't get shut down tomorrow? Who are behind this and why are they offering this service? Just a github-generated project page does not seem reliable to me.
Just email it to yourself? Long before apple invented email you have been able to check mail on pretty much any phone made in the last 7 years? (or more?)
I wrote an app that does almost the same thing through the UI (not API) http://textfrom.me/ but it's not free. I made that project because I needed to txt a group of folks at a specific time in bulk.
I use google voice for everything, I find it important to be able to receive text messages on my Google Voice account. (I don't have a text messaging plan)
So this doesn't work for any of the UK carriers you list as the api cant handle UK MSISDN's. I am assuming your not doing submit SM to an SMSC and are abusing the email to text apis?
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 96.4 ms ] threadOtherwise, A LOT of cents.
(someone who does not pay that silliness and have sms blocked)
I wrote an app that does almost the same thing through the UI (not API) http://textfrom.me/ but it's not free. I made that project because I needed to txt a group of folks at a specific time in bulk.
Thanks Kevin for following up with me! That was awesome.
* java: http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/
* C++: https://github.com/mastermind202/GoogleVoice
* C#: http://code.google.com/p/sharp-voice/
* obj-C: https://bitbucket.org/joeygibson/gvoice/wiki/Home
* Python: http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/
* PHP: http://code.google.com/p/phpgooglevoice/
* javascript (node.js): https://github.com/amper5and/node-google-voice
I dont know how many of those are still maintained. Disclaimer: I am the author of node-google-voice, which is still maintained.
Though now it's looking a bit stale. Google CL needs to put some pressure on the rest of google to open up more APIs.
No mention of UK support, it's American only.
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