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The SMS Works API

The SMS Works API — free tier with API key

💬 Social & WorkHEALTHYchecked 7h ago
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The SMS Works API exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 94 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
518P50 · ms
1101P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 19 ms, slowest 821 ms, most recent 20 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.thesmsworks.co.uk/

{
  "message": "The SMS Works is up!"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.thesmsworks.co.uk/"
const res = await fetch("https://api.thesmsworks.co.uk/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.thesmsworks.co.uk/")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /518 mschecked 7h ago
GET/PROBED

The SMS Works API — free tier with API key

GET/?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

GET/messages/schedule

Retrieve scheduled messages

GET/messages/{messageid}

Get message by messageid

GET/messages/volume

Volume of messages sent since midnight

GET/batch/{batchid}

Retrieve all messages with the given batch ID

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

The SMS Works API: common questions

Is The SMS Works API free to use?

Yes — The SMS Works API is a free social & work API. Free tier: Free tier — API key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does The SMS Works API need an API key?

Yes — The SMS Works API needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call The SMS Works API from the browser?

Yes — The SMS Works API returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is The SMS Works API up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, The SMS Works API is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 518 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.