Sms Owl Node.js Wrapper

This package is wrapper of Sms Owl REST API hosted at https://smsowl.in. Sms Owl provides transactional and promotional SMS Gateway services.

Installing Sms Owl package

Use following command to install npm package.

$ npm install smsowl

Requiring library

Library can be imported to node file with following line of code.

var smsOwl = require("smsowl");

Configuring credentials

Credentials should be configured before sending SMS.

smsowl.configure({
    accountId: "YOUR-ACCOUNT-ID",
    apiKey: "YOUR-API-KEY"
});

Sending promotional SMS

sendPromotionalSms(senderId,to,message,smsType,callback)

• senderId: Sender Id registered and approved in Sms Owl portal.

• to: Either single number with country code or array of phone numbers.

• message: Message to be sent.

• smsType: It can have either of two values normal or flash

• callback: Function to be called after success of failure.

   smsowl.sendPromotionalSms("TESTER",["+919876543210","+91123456789],"hello world","normal",function(error,result){
   	if(error){
       	// Handle Error
   	}else{
      		// Handle success
   	}
   });

Variable result will content SMS id for single message sent or array of SMS ids for bulk sms sent.

sendPromotionalSms(senderId,to,message,callback)

Same as above but smsType defaults to normal

Sending Transactional SMS

smsowl.sendTransactionalSms(senderId,to,templateId,placeholderObject,callback);

• senderId: Sender Id registered and approved in Sms Owl portal.
• to: Destination number with country prefix. Only single number can be specified.
• templateId: Template Id of message. Only template message can be send via transactional route.
• placeholderObject: Placeholder values.

Lets assume templateId of "39ec9de0efa8a48cb6e60ee5" with following template.

Hello {customerName}, your invoice amount is Rs. {amount}.

smsowl.sendTransactionalSms("TESTER","+919876543210","39ec9de0efa8a48cb6e60ee5",{customerName:"Bob",amount:500},function(error,result){
    if(error){
        //Handle error
    }else{
        //Handle success
    }
});

Variable result will content SMS id

Promise Pattern

Our API also support promise pattern. In above mentioned APIs just omit callback parameter and use returned promise. Following is example.

smsowl.sendPromotionalSms("TESTER","+919876543210","hello world")
    .then(function(result){
      	//handle success
    },function(error){
        //handle error
    });

Error object structure

On failure following object is sent to 1 parameter (error) of callback of to 1st parameter of promise's failure callback. The message field explains cause of error.

{
    "status": "error",
    "message" : "Description of error"
}