RapidSMS is a free and open source framework for building interactive SMS applications, which integrates tightly with Django to provide a rich reporting interface. It was created by the Innovation Team at UNICEF, and is under development by the RapidSMS Team.
- the old rapidsms codebase (aka tusker) that has been living in http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms HAS BEEN MOVED to http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-legacy -- if your clone or fork is still in use, you should update your repository's remote/origin
- a COMBINED repository of the contents of http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-core-dev and http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-contrib-apps-dev HAS REPLACED the old codebase in http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms
('search' and 'training' apps that were in http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-contrib-apps-dev HAVE BEEN REMOVED and are now submodules of http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-community-apps-dev)
- http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-core-dev and http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-contrib-apps-dev WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED until the 1.0 release but should now be considered DEPRECATED.
- pypi package will now install from http://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms
RapidSMS is best installed via PyPi:
$ pip install rapidsms
The RapidSMS project skeleton is identical to the Django project skeleton, with a few of our settings added. To quickly spawn a new project, we've bundled a wrapper around django-admin.py:
$ rapidsms-admin.py startproject myproject
The runrouter management command starts the router, sends and receives SMS (and other short messages) via the configurable backends:
$ python manage.py runrouter
Right now, RapidSMS isn't very well documented. We're working on that on the RapidSMS wiki, but you may find more useful information on the mailing list for the time being.
RapidSMS is free software, available under the BSD license.
Please file bugs on GitHub.