How to use the SMSPool API

• By SMSPool Admin
• December 20, 2021
• SMSPool

What is an API?

An API (application programming interface) can easily communicate with our servers. You can connect it to your desired program and create your functionality within our APIs using the API.

How do I use the SMSPool API?

Our endpoint is usually: https://api.smspool.net/ and is free of charge to use. It does not cost any money. SMSPool will provide you with a 32-character long API key attached to all your purchases, orders, and rentals upon registering. Please do NOT share this with anyone, as it could give users access to all your orders and balance.

All API requests can be done in both GET or POST, unless said otherwise and all responses are in JSON

Where can I find the SMSPool API documentation?

Our documentation is provided through Postman. Click here to be redirected to Postman or download our Postman API collection

What can I do with the SMSPool API?

The SMSPool API gives you programmatic access to the full range of our services, including:

• Ordering SMS verifications for hundreds of supported services and countries
• Purchasing and managing data-only eSIMs
• Running carrier lookups on phone numbers
• Checking your balance, order history, and active rentals
• Automating workflows within your own applications or tools

Are there any API rate limits?

Standard accounts are limited to 32 requests per second. To help stay within this limit, we recommend using the https://api.smspool.net/request/active endpoint instead of https://api.smspool.net/sms/check where possible.

Business accounts can place as many orders as required without hitting rate limits. Please note that any account exceeding 300 requests per second for failed requests (such as ordering from out-of-stock services) will be rate limited for 1 minute regardless of account type.

Read more about business account perks here.

Do you have an SMS-activate/Hero-SMS API?

Yes, you can use our SMS-activate API by using this endpoint instead: https://api.smspool.net/stubs/handler_api

Supported parameters: pool, maxPrice, action, country, service. 

You can use the parameter &setting=smspool to use SMSPool service/country IDs instead. Please keep in mind that without that setting, you must use the service/country IDs of SMS-Activate/Hero-SMS.

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