django-nexmo

django-nexmo is a tiny Django app to send sms using the Nexmo provider.

Installation

Installation using pip is simple:

$ pip install django-nexmo

Add the nexmo app to your installed applications:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    …
    'nexmo',
    …
)

Configuration

You need to add a few lines in your settings.py file for django-nexmo to work:

NEXMO_USERNAME = 'API_KEY'
NEXMO_PASSWORD = 'SECRET'
NEXMO_FROM = 'Name or phone'

Did I mention that you need a Nexmo account? Seems quite obvious to me.

You can get your API_KEY and SECRET from your Nexmo Dashboard

Basic usage

The nexmo apps gives you access to a shortcut to send text messages easily.

from nexmo import send_message
send_message('+33612345678', 'My sms message body')

Is that all? Yes… for now.

Advanced usage

django-nexmo embeds libpynexmo by Marco Londero. Therefore, you can import and use the NexmoMessage class to manually forge requests to the Nexmo API.

from nexmo.libpynexmo.nexmomessage import NexmoMessage


params = {
    'api_key': settings.NEXMO_USERNAME,
    'api_secret': settings.NEXMO_PASSWORD,
    'type': 'unicode',
    'from': settings.NEXMO_FROM,
    'to': to,
    'text': message.encode('utf-8'),
}
sms = NexmoMessage(params)
response = sms.send_request()

Handling callbacks

Nexmo can call one of your urls to send further details about a text message processing.

django-nexmo provides a very basic callback handler that does nothing but logging Nexmo calls.

In your main urls.py file:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    …
    url(r'^nexmo/', include('nexmo.urls')),
    …
)

This will declare a callback view accessible through the http://your-site.url/nexmo/callback/ url.

Copy this url and paste it in the "Callback URL" section of your "API settings" section of your Nexmo.com account.