# How do I use your platform to send SMS?

**URL:** <https://forum.ideta.io/t/how-do-i-use-your-platform-to-send-sms/107>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ideta.io/t/how-do-i-use-your-platform-to-send-sms/107 "2022-02-22T16:10:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Glen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@Glen](https://forum.ideta.io/u/Glen)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ideta.io/t/how-do-i-use-your-platform-to-send-sms/107/1 "2022-02-22T16:10:52Z")

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I would like to use my chatbot to send SMS messages. How do I configure this ?

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**Author:** ![yanis.kerdjana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yanis.kerdjana](https://forum.ideta.io/u/yanis.kerdjana)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.ideta.io/t/how-do-i-use-your-platform-to-send-sms/107/2 "2022-02-22T16:43:48Z")

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To send an SMS, you need to use an external tool such as Twilio ([https://twilio.com](https://twilio.com)).

I’ll show you how to use it easily.

Go to your dashboard and grab your ACCOUNT\_SID and AUTH\_TOKEN :

 ![Capture d’écran 2022-02-22 à 17.16.53](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/ideta/original/1X/a75a6fd797f8ddc85dcd9eda73b6105542ed38e4.png)

Then encode “ACCOUNT\_ID:AUTH\_TOKEN” in base 64. You can use an online tool you trust in order to do that.  
You can use an operation bubble in Ideta to do that as well.

 ![Capture d’écran 2022-02-22 à 17.41.24](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/ideta/original/1X/f2aaf1e28e541e1ac4ca2fea36d168fb047b7b38.jpeg)  
You can launch that bubble in the test section to get the result :  
 ![Capture d’écran 2022-02-22 à 17.41.54](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/ideta/original/1X/f86eeb3891aee5e7dfa6109bddfa9201dff1dd82.png)

You can also use window.btoa(“ACCOUNT\_ID:AUTH\_TOKEN”) in the console of your browser’s developers tool.

Then, create an API bubble such as the following :

 ![Capture d’écran 2022-02-22 à 17.38.21](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/ideta/original/1X/5c03bbef2140f433e203c75dde5014001c1c4ff4.png)  
 ![Capture d’écran 2022-02-22 à 17.38.26](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/ideta/original/1X/e89f1740ffe637ae4c5933bd7d06880bda8c3074.png)

Be careful with the headers !

That’s it ! Every time your chatbot will run through this API, you’ll send a text.