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Sending text messages to a group of contacts

Is it possible to send text messages to a group of contacts that I have created under the personal tab? If no, is it possible to be implemented and if yes what is the time frame for the this to be in place?

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There is no direct API for doing it

What you can rather do is to first get the contacts using the Get Contact List API
This will give you a list of your personal contacts
You would then need to write custom logic to extract the phone numbers from all your contacts
Finally use the send SMS API and attach the extracted phone numbers to the to parameter of the request as seen in the Send SMS API

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