Unable to send SMS to device using API from Python

[luketanti]

Hello,

I am trying to use the API post methods to send an SMS to my device using a python script.

I am using the below script that I have made up. Python version is 3.7

import json
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen

HOLOGRAM_API_KEY = "MYAPIKEY"
url = "https://dashboard.hologram.io/api/1/sms/incoming?apikey="+HOLOGRAM_API_KEY

print (url)

values ={
  "deviceid": "xxxxx",
  "fromnumber": "+356xxxxxxxx",
  "body": "Hello world!"
}

hd = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

req = Request(url, json.dumps(values).encode('ascii'), hd)

with urlopen(req) as response:
    json_response = json.load(response)
print(json_response)

This is the error that I am getting:

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Can someone guide me to what I am doing wrong please?

Thanks

[Reuben]

Can you post the full response you get back? It should tell you which field is wrong for a 400 error.

[luketanti]

Does this help?

https://dashboard.hologram.io/api/1/sms/incoming?apikey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{'code': 400, 'msg': 'Bad Request', 'hdrs': <http.client.HTTPMessage object at 0x000001B779722308>, 'fp': <http.client.HTTPResponse object at 0x000001B77970D348>, 'file': <http.client.HTTPResponse object at 0x000001B77970D348>, 'name': '<urllib response>', 'delete': False, '_closer': <tempfile._TemporaryFileCloser object at 0x000001B7790D7108>, 'url': 'https://dashboard.hologram.io/api/1/sms/incoming?apikey=xxxxxxxxxxxxx'}

[Reuben]

No… I think you want to do something like print(response.read(1000))

But I tried your script and it works for me which makes me think its something like the device ID being wrong or something else weird in the input.

[luketanti]

You are right. It works, when using the correct device ID.

I was using a wrong ID and did not notice. Now I get a success response

{'success': True, 'data': {'msgcount': 1}}

Thank you for your help!

[Reuben]

Great, you’re welcome