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lucian1900

MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.

Anthony here, Mogreet CTO. MMS is not at all like SMS under the hood. While links are theoretically supported, in practical real life the content (images, video, audio, etc) is encoded into the MM7 body, and delivered all together to the handset. Check out our docs online for much more about what you can do: https://developer.mogreet.com/docs

anthor

Ah, I'd assumed putting in the body wasn't practical and that everything would be using links.

Is it possible to use Twilio SMS API to receive MMS message? Am I be able to receive SMS in backend and decode the data to get the link to the image?

I can't speak to the Twilio API, but you certainly can with the Mogreet SMS/MMS api. When an MO (Mobile originated) message is received from your user, we decode and store any media included (like images!) and then we make a web services callback to your app with the message content, the info about the user that sent it in, and a url to the media payload of that MO message. Anthor

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