Send SMS to India without any registration

Now you can send transactional or marketing SMS to India numbers without any registration or SMS approvals.

Twilio’s SMS API helps you add messaging capabilities to your applications and send it to almost any country in the world.

Not only you can send SMS, you can even receive SMS, track delivery of message, schedule them and retrieve complete history.

Send messages with the SMS API

CURL to send SMS via Twilio platform:

curl -X POST https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json \
--data-urlencode "Body=Actual SMS content you want to sent." \
--data-urlencode "From=+1XXXXXXXXXX" \
--data-urlencode "To=+91XXXXXXXXXX" \
-u $TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID:$TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN

Sample Response that you receive

{
  "account_sid": "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  "api_version": "2010-04-01",
  "body": "Actual SMS content you want to sent.", "date_created": "Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:12:31 +0000", "date_sent": "Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:12:33 +0000", "date_updated": "Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:12:33 +0000", "direction": "outbound-api", "error_code": null, "error_message": null, "from": "+1XXXXXXXXXX", "messaging_service_sid": "MGXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "num_media": "0", "num_segments": "1", "price": null, "price_unit": null, "sid": "SMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "status": "sent", "subresource_uris": { "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Messages/SMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Media.json" }, "to": "+91XXXXXXXXXX", "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Messages/SMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.json" }

Complete list of the APIs to send SMS to India number or anywhere in the world is available here. Twilio SMS API

However to send SMS, you will have to enable the country to which you want to send SMS via twilio console. Please read our article How to enable country to send SMS in Twilio.