Applescript: SMS Sender Clickatell

[efrey]

Hi all

I have created a script to send sms to www.clickatell.com, an inexpensive sms sender company.They offer an email to sms gateway.

Unfortunately, there are some unsolved problems:

-- wish list 1: Send to all selected contacts within addressbook (or, less flexible: to group) --
-- wish list 2: optimisation of international / local (+4179XXXXX/004179XXXXX/079XXXXX) problem to make this more flexible and usable for other people --
-- wish list 3: live updating sms length in the sms writing dialog --
-- with list 4: general optimisation of code to make it quicker --

Could you please have a look at the script and tell me what you think and what you would change?

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-- clickatell sms sender version 0.1 - myemail@mydomain.com --
-- clickatell service is available at www.clickatell.com --

-- this script has to be stored in the /Library/Address Book Plug-Ins to operate correctly --
-- this script still needs modification for anybody to run --

-- any help to make the following updates would be greatly appreciated: --
-- wish list 1: Send to all selected contacts within addressbook (or, less flexible: to group) --
-- wish list 2: optimisation of international / local (+4179XXXXX/004179XXXXX/079XXXXX) problem to make this more flexible and usable for other people --
-- wish list 3: live updating sms length in the sms writing dialog --
-- with list 4: general optimisation of code to make it quicker --

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-- first we define in which tab of the addressbook this script should appear --

using terms from application "Address Book"
on action property
return "phone"
end action property

on action title for p with e
return "sms_send"
end action title

on should enable action for p with e
return label of e is "mobile"
end should enable action

-- now we display the dialog to write the sms including sms length (because sms can only be 160 chars long on clickatell) --

on perform action for p with e
copy value of e as string to phone_string
copy remove_blanks(phone_string) to phone_string
set l to the length of phone_string
set phone_string to (characters 2 through l of phone_string) as string
set sms_string to ""
repeat
display dialog "SMS-Text (length " & (the length of sms_string as string) & " chars):" default answer sms_string buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
set the sms_string to the text returned of the result
if (the length of the sms_string is less than 160) and (the length of sms_string is greater than 0) then exit repeat
end repeat

-- now to some chopping and shortening, this is due to the length restriction of lines of clickatell in the email to be sent --

set l2 to the length of sms_string
if (the length of the sms_string is less than 66) then
set begintext to "text:" & (characters 1 thru l2 of sms_string) as string
set midtext to ""
set endtext to ""
end if
if (the length of the sms_string is greater than 66) then
set begintext to "text:" & (characters 1 thru 66 of sms_string) as string
set midtext to "text:" & (characters 67 thru l2 of sms_string) as string
set endtext to ""
end if
if (the length of sms_string is greater than 132) then
set begintext to "text:" & (characters 1 thru 66 of sms_string) as string
set midtext to "text:" & (characters 67 thru 132 of sms_string) as string
set endtext to "text:" & (characters 133 thru l2 of sms_string as string)
end if

-- we now create a new email with the text to be sent to clickatell --
-- the XXX portion of this part are to be replaced by YOUR actual clickatell account data --
-- the +41 part is the actual data of switzerland, for germany it would be +49 etc... --
-- in my addressbook the mobile numbers are just stored in format: 079 XXX XX XX, if all your mobile numbers contain the country code, (+41 for example) you have to modify this script (pending item) --

tell application "Mail"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties ¬
{subject:"sms", content:"api_id:XXXXXX
user:XXXXXX
password:XXXXXX
from:+41XXXXXX
to:41" & phone_string & "
" & begintext & "
" & midtext & "
" & endtext}
tell newMessage
set visible to true
set sender to "XXXXXXXXX <XXX@XXX.com>"
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties ¬
{name:"sms@messaging.clickatell.com", address:"sms@messaging.clickatell.com"}
send newMessage
end tell



end tell

return true
end perform action
end using terms from

-- here we have a portion to remove the blanks --

on remove_blanks(SMSString)
set phone_string to replace_chars(SMSString, " ", "")
return phone_string
end remove_blanks

-- here we have a portion to replace chars --

on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
set the item_list to every text item of this_text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
set this_text to the item_list as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return this_text
end replace_chars