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FireText

The FireText modules allow you to create, update, list, and delete the contacts, and messages in your FireText account.

Getting Started with FireText

Prerequisites

Note

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Make scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting FireText to Make

To connect your FireText account to Make you need to obtain the API Key from your FireText account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Make module.

  1. Log in to your FireText account.

  2. Click Settings (61f14d611b8dd.png) Icon > API.

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  3. Copy the API Key to your clipboard.

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  4. Go to Make and open the FireText module's Create a connection dialog.

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  5. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection and select the Authorization Type:

    • Email and Password

    • API Key

  6. If you have selected the Authorization Type as Email and Password, enter your FireText account credentials and click Continue.

    (OR)

    If you have selected the Authorization Type as API Key, enter the API key copied in step 3, and click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Contacts

Create a Contact

Creates a new contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

Mobile Telephone

Enter the contact's phone number. Remove the + sign and any leading zeros when using international codes. A UK number can start 07 or 447.

First Name

Enter the contact's first name.

Last Name

Enter the contact's last name.

Group ID

Enter the Group ID to which you add the contact. You can choose to add this contact to a pre-defined group. Within FireText, click Contacts > Edit on your chosen group. The API ID is set here for your group within the Advanced Options section.

Sub-Account ID

Select a sub-account ID for the contact. Add the contact to a specified sub-account.Sub-account is set to UK numbers as default.Contact [email protected] if you need to switch to International numbers.

Custom Field (1 - 3)

Add any custom field for the contact. For example, Address.

Get a Contact

Retrieves the stored contact information for a given mobile number in your account.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

Mobile Telephone

Enter the contact's phone number whose details you want to retrieve. Remove the + sign and any leading zeros when using international codes. A UK number can start 07 or 447.

Sub-Account ID

Select a sub-account ID for the contact. Add the contact to a specified sub-account.Sub-account is set to UK numbers as default.Contact [email protected] if you need to switch to International numbers.

Update a Contact

Updates an existing contact specified by mobile telephone number.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

Mobile Telephone

Enter the contact's phone number whose details you want to update. Remove the + sign and any leading zeros when using international codes. A UK number can start 07 or 447.

First Name

Enter the contact's first name.

Last Name

Enter the contact's last name.

Group ID

Enter the Group ID to which you add the contact. You can choose to add this contact to a pre-defined group. Within FireText, click Contacts > Edit on your chosen group. The API ID is set here for your group within the Advanced Options section.

Sub-Account ID

Select a sub-account ID for the contact. Add the contact to a specified sub-account.Sub-account is set to UK numbers as default.Contact [email protected] if you need to switch to International numbers.

Custom Field (1 - 3)

Add any custom field for the contact. For example, Address.

Messages

Watch Message Sent

Triggers when a message is sent.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

See the Connecting to FireText Webhook using Make to add the webhook to your FireText account.

Send a Message

Sends an SMS message from your FireText account.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

Message

Enter the message text you want to send.

For GSM, a single message is 160 characters, longer messages are 153 each (2=306,3=459,4=612). Unicode is 70 characters or 66 per part for longer messages. Must be at most 612 characters long.

From

Enter the Sender ID that is displayed when the message arrives on the handset. This can be your company name or reply number. This field can only be alpha-numeric.

To

Enter the recipient's telephone number. Remove the + sign and any leading zeros when using international codes. A UK number can start 07 or 447.

Group

This allows you to easily send a message to a pre-defined group within your FireText.co.uk account. Simply include the API ID specified for the group. Any duplicates or opt-outs will be ignored.

Sub-Account ID

Your sub-account ID. Add the contact to a specified sub-account.Sub-account is set to UK numbers as default.Contact [email protected]if you need to switch to International numbers.

Template ID

This allows you to choose a pre-defined template for your message content.

Schedule

Enter the date when the message is scheduled to send. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Expires

Enter the date on which the message expires. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Interval

If you want to specify the messages specifies the repeat interval between messages in days.

Reference

If set, you can record a custom ID against the message batch, which will be passed back in the delivery receipt.

Receipt

Enter the alternate receipt URL. Instead of using the receipt URL as defined within your FireText.co.uk account, receipts will be sent to this URL.

Unicode

Select the message Unicode type:

  • GSM Characters Only (default)

  • Always assume Unicode

  • Auto-detect from the message content

Remove a Scheduled Message

Removes a scheduled message specified by ID.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

Message ID

Enter the Message-ID whose schedule you want to remove.

Sub-Account ID

Your sub-account ID. Add the contact to a specified sub-account.Sub-account is set to UK numbers as default.Contact [email protected] if you need to switch to International numbers.

Other

Make an API Call

Performs an arbitrary API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your FireText account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://www.firetext.co.uk/api/. For example: /receivedmessages

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the FireText API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use - Check Credit

The following API call returns the credit balance from your FireText account:

URL:

/credit

Method:

GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body

In our example, the module returns the credit balance.

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Connecting to FireText Webhook using Make

  1. Open any Watch module, establish a connection as mentioned in the respective modules, Click Save, and copy the URL address to your clipboard.

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  2. Log in to your FireText account. Click Settings > API.

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  3. Based on the messages you want to watch, in the Delivery Receipts, and/or Receiving SMS field(s), enter the webhook URL address you have copied in step 1.

  4. Click UPDATE DETAILS.

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The webhook is added successfully.