TextMagic offers a quick, cost-effective way to send text messages from any computer. This package provides a simple Python API on top of the TextMagic HTTPS API; which is a web-based interface to the SMS functionality.

Install using easy_install:

easy_install PyTextMagicSMS

OR manually:

• download it from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyTextMagicSMS
• unzip the downloaded file
• change into the PyTextMagicSMS-x.x directory
• run setup.py as follows

python setup.py install

• PyTextMagicSMS depends on one of the following:
  • Python 2.6 or
  • django or
  • simplejson (which can be downloaded from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson or easy_install simplejson)

Before using the service you need to register at http://www.textmagic.com/ and obtain an API password (different from your login password) at https://www.textmagic.com/app/wt/account/api/cmd/password.

Now you are ready to send your first SMS:

import textmagic.client
client = textmagic.client.TextMagicClient('your_username', 'your_api_password')
result = client.send("Hello, World!", "1234567890")
message_id = result['message_id'].keys()[0]

And you can retrieve the delivery status of the message:

response = client.message_status(message_id)
status = response[message_id]['status']

There is more detail in the User Manual

Here’s what you’ll get: