README.md

📖 Presentation

receive_sms is a library which allows to receive SMS in python free and unlimited.

⚙️ Installation

You can download the file or use PyPi :

pip install receive-sms

For getting informations, you can use :

pip show receive-sms

⌨️ Use

receive_sms.get_messages(phone_number='12018577757')

Returns the last 100 messages sent to phone_number (newest to oldest). How do I know which phone_number to put?

Messages are returned as a message class, here are its attributes:

message.text

Returns the content of message (str)

message.from_number

Returns the phone number you originally chose (str)

message.to_number

Returns the phone number that sent the message (str)

message.date

Returns the date of the message, imprecise (datetime)

💾 Example

import receive_sms # Import the library

data = receive_sms.get_messages(phone_number = '12018577757') # Get messages sent to 12018577757

# Print informations of each message
for msg in data:
    print(msg.text) # The content of the message
    print('from '+msg.from_number) # The number from which the message originated
    print('to '+msg.to_number) # Your number, in this case it's 12018577757
    print('the '+msg.date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M")) # The date
    print('\n') # Line break

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ℹ️ To know

• Phone numbers are public, everyone can see received messages.

• Messages longer than 150 characters are split.

• The library uses sms-online.co.

The phone numbers you can use

+1 201-857-7757 - 🇺🇸 United States

+1 787-337-5275 - 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

+60 11-1700 0917 - 🇲🇾 Malaysia

+44 7520 635797 - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

+46 76 943 62 66 - 🇸🇪 Sweden