Is there a Google Voice API?

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Adam Goode picture Adam Goode · Nov 3, 2009 · Viewed 112.4k times · Source

Is there an API (officially or unofficially) for Google Voice? I would like to have an API to work with voicemails, send/receive SMS messages, initiate calls, etc.

What is the Android client using? Something internal? Has anyone documented it?

Answer

John Nagle picture John Nagle · Nov 11, 2009

No, there is no API for Google Voice announced as of 2021.

"pygooglevoice" can perform most of the voice functions from Python. It can send SMS. I've developed code to receive SMS messages, but the overhead is excessive given the current Google Voice interface. Each poll returns over 100K of content, so you'd use a quarter-gigabyte a day just polling every 30 seconds. There's a discussion on Google Code about this.

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