AfricasTalking SDK

Provides convenient access to the Africa's Talking API from applications written in ruby.

Documentation

Take a look at the API docs here.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "africastalking-ruby"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

The SDK needs to be instantiated using your username and API key, which you can get from the dashboard.

You can use this SDK for either production or sandbox apps. For sandbox, the app username is ALWAYS sandbox

require "AfricasTalking"

username = 'YOUR_USERNAME' # use 'sandbox' for development in the test environment
apiKey 	= 'YOUR_API_KEY' # use your sandbox app API key for development in the test environment
@AT=AfricasTalking::Initialize.new(username, apiKey)

You can now make API calls using the @AT object

Token

token = @AT.token

Create authentication Token

token.generateAuthToken phoneNumber

Airtime

Send airtime to phone numbers

airtime = @AT.airtime

airtime.send options

• options
  • recipients: Contains an hash of arrays containing the following keys
    • phoneNumber: Recipient of airtime REQUIRED
    • currency:3-digit ISO format currency code . REQUIRED
    • amount: Amount sent >= 10 && <= 10K with currency e.g KES 100 REQUIRED

Sms

sms = @AT.sms

Send Sms

sms.send options

• options
  • message: SMS content. REQUIRED
  • to: A single recipient or a comma separated string of recipients. REQUIRED
  • from: Shortcode or alphanumeric ID that is registered with Africa's Talking account. OPTIONAL
  • enqueue: Set to true if you would like to deliver as many messages to the API without waiting for an acknowledgement from telcos. OPTIONAL
  • bulkSMSMode: This parameter will be used by the Mobile Service Provider to determine who gets billed for a message sent using a Mobile-Terminated ShortCode. The default value is 1 (which means that the sender (The AfricasTalking account being used ) gets charged). OPTIONAL
  • retryDurationInHours: t specifies the number of hours your subscription message should be retried in case it's not delivered to the subscriber. OPTIONAL

Send Premium SMS

sms.sendPremium options

• options
  • message: SMS content. REQUIRED
  • keyword: The keyword to be used for a premium service. REQUIRED
  • linkId: This parameter is used for premium services to send OnDemand messages. We forward the linkId to your application when the user send a message to your service.. REQUIRED
  • to: A single recipient or a comma separated string of recipients. REQUIRED
  • from: Shortcode or alphanumeric ID that is registered with Africa's Talking account. OPTIONAL
  • enqueue: Set to true if you would like to deliver as many messages to the API without waiting for an acknowledgement from telcos. OPTIONAL
  • bulkSMSMode: This parameter will be used by the Mobile Service Provider to determine who gets billed for a message sent using a Mobile-Terminated ShortCode. The default value is 1 (which means that the sender (The AfricasTalking account being used ) gets charged). OPTIONAL
  • retryDurationInHours: t specifies the number of hours your subscription message should be retried in case it's not delivered to the subscriber. OPTIONAL

Fetch Messsages

sms.fetchMessages options

• options
  • lastReceivedId: This is the id of the message that you last processed. The default is 0 OPTIONAL

Create subscription

sms.createSubcription options

• options
  • shortCode: This is a premium short code mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • keyword: Value is a premium keyword under the above short code and mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • phoneNumber: The phoneNumber to be subscribed REQUIRED
  • checkoutToken: This is a token used to validate the subscription request REQUIRED

Fetch Subscription

sms.fetchSubscriptions options

• options
  • shortCode: This is a premium short code mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • keyword: Premium keyword under the above short code and mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • lastReceivedId: ID of the subscription you believe to be your last. Defaults to 0

Delete Subscription

sms.deleteSubscriptions options

• options
  • shortCode: This is a premium short code mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • keyword: Premium keyword under the above short code and mapped to your account. REQUIRED
  • phoneNumber: PhoneNumber to be unsubscribed REQUIRED

Voice

voice = @AT.voice

Making a call

voice.call options

• options
  • to: A single recipient or an array of recipients. REQUIRED
    • array of recipients contains ['2XXXXXXXX', '2XXXXXXXX']
  • from: Shortcode or alphanumeric ID that is registered with Africa's Talking account.REQUIRED
  • clientRequestId: String sent to your Events Callback URL that can be used to tag the call. OPTIONAL

Fetch queued calls

voice.fetchQueuedCalls options

• options
  • phoneNumber: is phone number mapped to your AfricasTalking account. REQUIRED

Upload media file

voice.uploadMediaFile options

• options
  • url: The url of the file to upload. Don't forget to start with http:// REQUIRED
  • phoneNumber: is phone number mapped to your AfricasTalking account. REQUIRED

Account

account = @AT.account

Fetch User data

account.fetchUserData

Payments

payments = @AT.payments

Credit card checkout

payments.cardCheckoutCharge options

• options
  • productName: Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED
  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (only NGN is supported). REQUIRED
  • amount: Payment amount. REQUIRED
  • narration: A short description of the transaction REQUIRED
  • checkoutToken: Token that has been generated by our APIs as as result of charging a user's Payment Card in a previous transaction. When using a token, the paymentCard data should NOT be populated. OPTIONAL
  • paymentCard: Hash of payment Card to be charged: OPTIONAL
    • number: The payment card number. REQUIRED
    • cvvNumber: The 3 or 4 digit Card Verification Value. REQUIRED
    • expiryMonth: The expiration month on the card (e.g 8) REQUIRED
    • expiryYear: The expiration year on the card (e.g 2020) REQUIRED
    • authToken: The card's ATM PIN. REQUIRED
    • countryCode: The 2-Digit countryCode where the card was issued (only NG is supported). REQUIRED
  • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transaction. OPTIONAL

Validate credit card checkout

payments.cardCheckoutValidate options

• options
  • transactionId: The transaction that your application wants to validate. REQUIRED
  • otp: One Time Password that the card issuer sent to the client. REQUIRED

Initiate bank charge checkout

payments.bankCheckoutCharge options

• options

  • productName: Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED

  • bankAccount: Hash of bank account to be charged:

    • accountName: The name of the bank account. REQUIRED
    • accountNumber: The account number. REQUIRED
    • dateOfBirth: Date of birth of the account owner (YYYY-MM-DD). Required for Zenith Bank Nigeria.
    • bankCode: A 6-Digit Integer Code for the bank that we allocate. Supported banks at the moment are: REQUIRED

    payments.class::BANK_CODES['FCMB_NG']
    payments.class::BANK_CODES['ZENITH_NG']
    payments.class::BANK_CODES['ACCESS_NG']
    payments.class::BANK_CODES['PROVIDUS_NG']
    payments.class::BANK_CODES['STERLING_NG']

  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (only NGN is supported). REQUIRED

  • amount: Payment amount. REQUIRED

  • narration: A short description of the transaction REQUIRED

  • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transactionOPTIONAL

Validate bank checkout

payments.bankCheckoutValidate options

• options
  • transactionId: The transaction that your application wants to validate. REQUIRED
  • otp: One Time Password that the bank sent to the client. REQUIRED

Bank transfer

payments.bankTransfer options

• options
  • productName: Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED
  • recipients: A list of recipients. Each recipient has:
    • bankAccount: Bank account to be charged:
      • accountName: The name of the bank account.
      • accountNumber: The account number REQUIRED
      • bankCode: A 6-Digit Integer Code for the bank that we allocate; See payments.class::BANK_CODES for supported banks. REQUIRED
    • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (only NGN is supported). REQUIRED
    • amount: Payment amount. REQUIRED
    • narration: A short description of the transaction REQUIRED
    • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transaction.

Mobile Checkout

payments.mobileCheckout options

• options
  • productName: Your Payment Product. REQUIRED
  • phoneNumber: The customer phone number (in international format; e.g. 25471xxxxxxx). REQUIRED
  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (e.g KES, USD, UGX etc.) REQUIRED
  • amount: This is the amount. REQUIRED
  • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transaction.OPTIONAL
  • providerChannel: This represents the payment channel the payment will be made from. eg paybill number. The payment channel must be mapped to you. The AfricasTalking default provider channel is used if not specified.OPTIONAL

Mobile B2C

payments.mobileB2C options

• options

  • productName: Your Payment Product. REQUIRED

  • recipients: A list of up to 10 recipients. Each recipient has:

    • phoneNumber: The payee phone number (in international format; e.g. 25471xxxxxxx). REQUIRED
    • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (e.g KES, USD, UGX etc.) REQUIRED
    • amount: Payment amount. REQUIRED
    • providerChannel: This represents the payment channel the payment will be made from. eg paybill number. The payment channel must be mapped to you. The AfricasTalking default provider channel is used if not specified.
    • reason: This field contains a string showing the purpose for the payment. If set, it should be one of the following

      SalaryPayment
      SalaryPaymentWithWithdrawalChargePaid
      BusinessPayment
      BusinessPaymentWithWithdrawalChargePaid
      PromotionPayment
      

    • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transaction.

Mobile B2B

payments.mobileB2B options

• options

  • productName: Your Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED

  • providerData: Hash containing Provider details. this include; REQUIRED

    • provider: String that shows the payment provider that is facilitating this transaction. Supported providers at the moment are:

        Athena - Please note: This is not available on our production systems
        Mpesa
      
      

    • transferType: This contains the payment provider that is facilitating this transaction. Supported providers at the moment are:

      BusinessBuyGoods
      BusinessPayBill
      DisburseFundsToBusiness
      BusinessToBusinessTransfer
      

    • destinationChannel: This value contains the name or number of the channel that will receive payment by the provider. REQUIRED

    • destinationAccount: This value contains the account name used by the business to receive money on the provided destinationChannel. REQUIRED

  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code (e.g KES, USD, UGX etc.) REQUIRED

  • amount: Payment amount. REQUIRED

  • requester: PhoneNumber through which KPLC will send tokens when using B2B to buy electricity tokens.

  • metadata: Some optional data to associate with transaction.REQUIRED

Mobile Data

payments.mobileData options

• options

  • productName: Your Payment Product. REQUIRED

  • recipients: A list of recipients. Each recipient has:

    • phoneNumber: Customer phone number (in international format). REQUIRED
    • quantity: Mobile data amount. REQUIRED
    • unit: Mobile data unit. Can either be MB or GB. REQUIRED
    • validity: How long the mobile data is valid for. Must be one of Day, Week and Month. REQUIRED
    • metadata: Additional data to associate with the transaction. REQUIRED

Wallet Transfer

payments.walletTransfer options

• options
  • productName: Your Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED
  • targetProductCode: Unique code ode of payment product receiving funds on Africa's Talking REQUIRED
  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code. REQUIRED
  • amount: Amount to transfer. REQUIRED
  • metadata: Additional data to associate with the transaction. REQUIRED

Topup Stash

payments.topupStash options

• options
  • productName: Your Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED
  • currencyCode: 3-digit ISO format currency code. REQUIRED
  • amount: Amount to transfer. REQUIRED
  • metadata: Additonal data to associate with the transaction. REQUIRED

Fetch Product Transactions

payments.fetchProductTransactions options

• options
  • productName: Your Payment Product as setup on your account. REQUIRED
  • filters: Filters to use when fetching transactions:
    • pageNumber: Page number to fetch results from. Starts from 1. REQUIRED
    • count: Number of results to fetch. REQUIRED
    • startDate: Start Date to consider when fetching
    • endDate: End Date to consider when fetching
    • category: Category to consider when fetching
    • provider: Provider to consider when fetching
    • status: Status to consider when fetching
    • source: Source to consider when fetching
    • destination: Destination to consider when fetching
    • providerChannel: Provider to consider when fetching

fetch Wallet Transactions

payments.fetchWalletTransactions options

• options
  • filters: Filters to use when fetching transactions:
    • pageNumber: Page number to fetch results from. Starts from 1. REQUIRED
    • count: Number of results to fetch. REQUIRED
    • startDate: Start Date to consider when fetching
    • endDate: End Date to consider when fetching
    • categories: Comma delimited list of categories to consider when fetching

Find Transaction

payments.findTransaction options

• options
  • transactionId: ID of trancation to find REQUIRED

Fetch Wallet Balance

payments.fetchWalletBalance

• Fetch your payment wallet balance

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/AfricasTalkingLtd. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.