On your project Twilio Dashboard, you can find the Account SID and Auth Token. You can also go to Settings, General, and locate your ACCOUNT SID. Within the same page, you can also find the Auth Token. If you have multiple tokens, you must use the Primary Token.
What is Sid in Twilio API?
A String Identifier (SID) is a unique key that is used to identify specific resources. Every Twilio resource has a 34 digit SID. You can use the first two characters of the SID to identify its type. Many of our API calls will return a JSON object containing another resource’s SID.
How do I use Twilio’s SMS API?
Twilio’s SMS API helps you send and manage messages programmatically: 1 To send an outbound SMS, WhatsApp, or Channels message with the API, POST to the Message resource. 2 You’ll also use the Message resource to fetch messages and list messages associated with your account.
Using this REST API, you can send and receive SMS messages, track the delivery of sent messages, and retrieve and modify message history. Want more general information on Twilio and SMS?
In short, you will use your Twilio account SID as the username and your auth token as the password for HTTP Basic authentication. You can find your account SID and auth token in the admin console. Alternately, you can also use API keys and secrets to authenticate REST API requests – you can manage API key pairs in the console also.
Twilio’s Proxy API makes it easy to disassociate phone numbers from conversations on your platform across SMS, Voice and other channels. The Pricing REST resource provides a simple API to pull real time, account-specific pricing for Twilio’s voice, messaging and phone number products.
When you first sign up with Twilio, you have just one account, your main account. But you can also create more accounts subaccounts are useful for things like segmenting phone numbers and usage data for your customers and controlling access to data.
What is a Twilio Message ID?
The Message SID is the unique ID for any message successfully created by Twilio’s API. It is a 34 character string that starts with “SM…” for text messages and “MM…” for media messages.
What is Twilio and how does it work?
Behind these APIs is a software layer connecting and optimizing communications networks around the world to allow your users to call and message anyone, globally. Twilio has a whole host of APIs, from SMS to Voice to Wireless.
Where can I Find my account Sid and auth token?
You can find your account SID and auth token in the admin console. Alternately, you can also use API keys and secrets to authenticate REST API requests – you can manage API key pairs in the console also.