3.3 Hands-on: send an SMS from your server

You'll send a real SMS to your own phone, from your server, with Lynk's API.

Steps

1. In Developer tools, create a key named My server test that can only use sms. Copy it.
2. Log in to your server. Save the key in a private file:

nano ~/.lynk-key

Paste the key on one line, save and exit, then make the file private:

chmod 600 ~/.lynk-key

3. Send an SMS to your own number:

curl -X POST https://www.lynkinfra.com/api/v1/sms \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat ~/.lynk-key)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"to": "024XXXXXXX", "message": "Hello from my own server"}'

4. Read the answer. Your phone gets the text in a few seconds.
5. Try a mistake on purpose: change one letter of the key in the command (not the file) and run it again. Read the status and the message. That's what your app sees when a key is wrong.

Only to your own number. Never send test messages to other people. Each SMS costs money from your Lynk account.

Check your work: the SMS reached your phone.