diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 35b4c88..b6ffede 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ### TextBelt -TextBelt (http://textbelt.com) is a texting API that uses carrier-specific gateways to deliver your text messages for free. This is nice for a low-cost texting app or testing without running down your Twilio balance. Over 100k texts have been sent via Textbelt. +TextBelt (http://textbelt.com) is an outgoing SMS API that uses carrier-specific gateways to deliver your text messages for free, and without ads. The service is fairly reliable and has sent over 100,000 texts. Send a text with a simple POST request: @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ $ curl http://textbelt.com/text \ -d "message=I sent this message for free with textbelt.com" ``` +`number` and `message` parameters are required. + ### Success and Failure Sample success: diff --git a/views/index.html b/views/index.html index 71d72a4..f7cd54b 100644 --- a/views/index.html +++ b/views/index.html @@ -1,49 +1,38 @@ - + -
- - -A free, open source API for outgoing texts.
+Maintained by Ian Webster. Open source on github.
++ + + +
+ +Free API for outgoing texts. - -
-- - - -
- -TextBelt is an outgoing SMS API that uses carrier-specific gateways to deliver your text messages for free, and without ads. Textbelt is fairly reliable and has sent over 100,000 texts.
+TextBelt is an outgoing SMS API that uses carrier-specific gateways to deliver your text messages for free, and without ads. The service is fairly reliable and has sent over 100,000 texts.
Send a text with a simple POST request:
@@ -52,7 +41,7 @@ -d "message=I sent this message for free with textbelt.com" -number and message parameters are required.
+ number
and message
parameters are required.
-This project is maintained by Ian Webster. +This project is maintained by Ian Webster and available on Github.
@@ -105,6 +94,8 @@ This project is maintained by Ian Webster.