A script to send SMS messages using Messente API

messente.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#!/usr/bin/python -tt

# A script to send SMS messages using Messente API
# Author Ando Roots 2011

import sys
import urllib
import urllib2

user = '921ffffdfs5lb5e17c910'; # API user
key = 'dc77360a20cir83n4bex14c1'; # API key
reciever = '3725850003'
msg = 'New grade!'

# Send SMS to reciever with the text msg
# See Messente API documentation for possible response codes
# If succesful, the first 2 chars are OK
def send_sms(reciever, msg):

  api_url = 'https://messente.com/api/send_sms_get'
  values = {'user' : user,
          'api_key' : key,
          'text' : msg,
          'to' : reciever}

  data = urllib.urlencode(values)
  api_url = api_url + '?' + data
  data = urllib.urlopen(api_url).read()
  print data

def main():
  send_sms(reciever, msg)
  sys.exit(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()