textbee SMS runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 294 installs a week from npm. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.
Send and read SMS through your own Android phone via textbee.dev, the open-source SMS gateway.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check textbee SMS every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add mcp -e 'TEXTBEE_API_KEY=<TEXTBEE_API_KEY>' -- npx -y @textbee/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@textbee/mcp"
],
"env": {
"TEXTBEE_API_KEY": "<TEXTBEE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@textbee/mcp"]
env = { TEXTBEE_API_KEY = "<TEXTBEE_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@textbee/mcp"
],
"env": {
"TEXTBEE_API_KEY": "<TEXTBEE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@textbee/mcp"
],
"env": {
"TEXTBEE_API_KEY": "<TEXTBEE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<TEXTBEE_API_KEY> (API key from the textbee dashboard (app.textbee.dev/dashboard)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
TEXTBEE_BASE_URL (Self-hosted instance URL. Defaults to https://api.textbee.dev; the /api/v1 suffix is added automatically).
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textbee SMS — questions
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