How to Use OpenAI to Send SMS Messages

This blog post will show you how to use OpenAI’s API to send SMS messages. You will learn how to create an API key, how to use the API to send messages, and how to track the status of your messages.

Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:

• A Python programming environment
• An OpenAI API key

Step 1: Create an API key

To create an API key, you will need to sign up for an OpenAI account. Once you have created an account, you will be able to generate an API key.

Step 2: Use the API to send messages

Once you have an API key, you can use the API to send messages. The following code shows how to send a message using the OpenAI API:

import openai

openai.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = openai.Completion.create(
    engine="text-davinci-002",
    prompt="What is the best way to send an SMS message?",
)

message = response.text

openai.Message.create(
    to="+15555555555",
    text=message,
)

Step 3: Track the status of your messages

You can track the status of your messages by using the OpenAI API. The following code shows how to get the status of a message:

import openai

openai.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

message_id = "MESSAGE_ID"

response = openai.Message.get(message_id)

status = response.status

The status field will contain the status of your message. The possible values are:

• pending: The message is still being processed.
• sent: The message has been sent.
• failed: The message has failed to send.

Conclusion

In this blog post, you learned how to use OpenAI to send SMS messages. You learned how to create an API key, how to use the API to send messages, and how to track the status of your messages.