Our APIs are open to all members of our community. These APIs will allow you to integrate Globe's various services like SMS and MMS into your mobile, web or desktop applications.

Messaging API (SMS / MMS)

The SMS/MMS API allows you to integrate SMS and MMS messaging into your web or desktop applications via a web-based interface. You can use the API to both send and receive SMS and MMS messages to and from Globe subscribers.

Sending messages is done using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP or our new REST based interface. Your application just needs to issue a remote procedure call over the web using either protocol.

To process incoming messages, you'll be assigned a short-code number and a 4 digit suffix code. When a Globe subscriber sends a message to your assigned number, the API will send a HTTP post request to your callback URL containing XML data about the message which your application can then process.

Location Based Services API

The LBS API, allows you to integrate location-based and positioning capability into your mobile, web-based and desktop applications. Through a web-based interface, you can query the approximate geographic position of a Globe subscriber's handset. Globe's network technology will then try to ascertain the latitude and longitude coordinates of the handset and return this information to your application's callback URL.

To protect our subscriber's privacy however, you'll need to acquire their explicit consent to be located. Thus, the LBS API also offers a set of functions for obtaining user consent, which you'll have to use before locating a subscriber.

Voice API

Globe Labs Voice API allows third-party developers to develop voice-based applications using the voice over Internet protocol or VOIP to Globe subscribers. VOIP enables you to use a set of transmission technologies to deliver of voice communications over IP networks. The API, in turn, lets you to connect IP-based communication systems to Globe's GSM cellular network.

You can use the API to connect soft / VOIP phones to mobile phones for both incoming and outgoing calls. You can also use the API to build Interactive Voice Recording (IVR) applications that perform conferencing (linking two or more mobile numbers in a conversation), recording / voicemail (recording and retrieving audio) and content / information retrieval (fetching up-to-date information via an audible interface). But the range of possible applications is not limited to these. It's hoped that the API can open up a new world of possibilities for application developers and solution integrators.

Find out more about our Developer APIs.