Services like Twilio and MailSlurp offer phone number and SMS APIs that can be used to build SMS routing functionality for automation and testing.
Create phone numbers
Create a phone number for a given region in the MailSlurp dashboard.
You can then access and control the phone number using the MailSlurp API client.
Redirect SMS with webhooks
Create a webhook for your phone number to route incoming SMS messages to your endpoint of choice, be that a server, slack, or lambda function.
Wait for arrival of SMS
In tests or automation logic you can hold a connection open until an expected SMS txt message is received:
Reading text messages in code
Extract SMS message content like so:
