flowroute-sms

Send SMS messages using Flowroute's v2 Messaging API.

Features

• Allows sending SMS messages with Flowroute and Nodejs
• Super-lightweight compared to scaffolded Flowroute SDK for Nodejs
• Supported as standard installable npm module
• Methods return ES6 Promises

Installation

npm install flowroute-sms

Configuration

There are two ways to configure the client: environment variables, or passing credentials when the client is instantiated. The values for access key and secret key can be found in the Flowroute Manager.

Environment Variables

• FLOWROUTE_KEY - your Flowroute Access Key
• FLOWROUTE_SECRET - your Flowroute Secret Key

If these environment variables are set, the client can be instantiated without specifying any values (see following section).

Create client

var FlowrouteSMS = require('flowroute-sms');
var client = new FlowrouteSMS(accessKey,secretKey);

The new keyword is optional. So, this could be shortened as:

var SMS = require('flowroute-sms')(accessKey,secretKey);

Send message

var from = '18185551234';
var to   = '12135559090';

client.send(to, from, 'Hello World!')
.then(function(result){
    console.log('Sent message',result.id);
});

Note that send (and other methods) return an ES6 Promise.

Lookup message

Fetch information for a single message ID.

client.lookup('mdr1-a6abeaedcafe4bd79841c5477b65fcba')
.then(function(result){
    console.log(result);
});

If successful, this will return an object:

{
  "attributes": {
    "body": "The eagle has landed.",
    "direction": "outbound",
    "timestamp": "2016-06-04T07:14:00.538022+00:00",
    "amount_nanodollars": 4000000,
    "from": "18185551234",
    "message_encoding": 0,
    "has_mms": false,
    "to": "12135559999",
    "amount_display": "$0.0040",
    "callback_url": null,
    "message_type": "long-code"
  },
  "type": "message",
  "id": "mdr1-a6abeaedcafe4bd79841c5477b65fcba"
}

Search range of messages

var start = '2016-06-03';
var end = new Date();
var limit = 10;
var offset = 0;

client.search(start,end,limit,offset)
.then(function(results){
    console.log(results);
});

If successful, this method will return an array of message objects in the format returned by the lookup method.

Notes: As per the documentation, start and end parameters can be strings in the following formats: YYYY-MM-DD, an ISO8601-style date like YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSZ, or a Javascript Date object. limit is optional and defaults to 250. offset is optional and defaults to zero.

To Dos

• Remove request dependency (could be implemented with native nodejs libraries)