---
title: "List your SMS senders"
method: GET
path: "/v1/sms/senders"
tags: ["sms-senders"]
---

# List your SMS senders

`GET /v1/sms/senders`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/sms/senders`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns the dedicated numbers and alphanumeric senders your workspace holds, newest first, with each sender's per-country registration status.

## Query parameters

- `type` string: What backs an SMS sender: a dedicated number, a shared shortcode, or an alphanumeric sender string.
- `number_id` string: Identifier of a number allocated to your workspace, as returned in the id field of `GET /v1/numbers`.
- `sort` 'created_at' | 'sender'
- `order` 'asc' | 'desc': Sort direction, ascending or descending.
- `limit` integer
- `starting_after` string
- `ending_before` string
- `include_total` boolean

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `200`

Paginated list of your SMS senders with their registrations.

- SMSSenderList
  - `data` SMSSender[], required: Your workspace's dedicated numbers and alphanumeric senders, newest first.
    - `id` string, required
    - `sender` string, required: The value messages are sent from: a number in E.164 format, a shortcode, or an alphanumeric sender string.
    - `source_kind` string, required: What backs an SMS sender: a dedicated number, a shared shortcode, or an alphanumeric sender string.
    - `sender_type` 'long_code' | 'short_code' | 'alphanumeric' | 'toll_free': The kind of sender identity a message was sent from: a standard long-code number, a short code, an alphanumeric sender ID, or a toll-free number. Toll-free is its own value rather than a kind of long code, because it carries a separate regulatory regime and both sending policy and pricing key on it directly.
    - `country_code` string: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
    - `number_id` string: Identifier of a number allocated to your workspace, as returned in the id field of `GET /v1/numbers`.
    - `status` 'active' | 'pending_number_ownership' | 'pending_registrations', required: Where a sender stands on its own setup: the ownership paperwork its number owes, and the registrations it holds. - `active`: nothing this sender holds is outstanding. - `pending_number_ownership`: the paperwork proving you own this sender's number is not in place, either because it has not been supplied or because the country that issued the number has not accepted it yet. Every send from this sender is refused until it does. - `pending_registrations`: the sender holds country registrations and none is approved yet. That covers a registration under review and one that was refused, so read `next` for which. This is not whether a message will be accepted. That is decided per destination country, and [Get sender requirements](/docs/api/reference/list-workspace-sms-sender-requirements) is the only read that answers it. A sender that has registered nowhere is `active`, even where every country it can reach wants a registration first. Read `next` for where to go from here.
    - `next` NextAction[]: What to do next about this sender, given the state it is in. Present on reads that compute it: an empty list means there is nothing to do, and the field is absent entirely on responses that do not report next actions. This routes rather than advises. A sender only knows about itself, so where the work is per-country it names the requirements read rather than guessing which country you meant.
      - `kind` string, required: What you do about this step. - `operation`: call the operation named in `operation`, then read again. - `external`: act somewhere this API does not reach, then read again. - `wait`: nothing is asked of you, so read again later. - `terminal`: nothing you do resolves this, so stop retrying. Tolerate a value you do not recognize: show the `description` and offer no action.
      - `description` string, required: A short, human-readable label for the step, suitable for display.
      - `operation` string: The operationId to call. Present only when `kind` is `operation`. The operation's own schema says how to call it; this says only which one, and what to address it with.
      - `params` object: The parameters that address the operation, by name: `{"sender_id": "…"}` for an operation on `/v1/sms/senders/{sender_id}/requirements`. A parameter the operation takes in its query string is given the same way, so an operation addressed as `?subject_id=` carries `{"subject_id": "…"}`. Every parameter the call needs is here, whether its value came from the thing you were acting on or is fixed for this step, so you can make the call from this object alone. Present only when `kind` is `operation` and the operation names a subject. A request body, when the operation takes one, is described by the operation's own schema and never appears here.
      - `url` string, uri: A URL to open. Present only when `kind` is `external`, and only when the step has one. An external step whose `description` says to go and do something with no URL to open is normal.
    - `destinations` SMSSenderDestinations, required: Where this sender stands with the destinations it is set up for, grouped by whose move is next. These are not every country the sender could reach. `pending` and `needs_attention` cover only countries you hold a registration for, so a country you could register for but have not, or one you have simply not switched on, appears in none of the three: there is nothing outstanding there. To see everything reachable and what each country would take, read [Get sender requirements](/docs/api/reference/list-workspace-sms-sender-requirements).
      - `active` CountryCode[], required: Countries you can send to today: switched on in your SMS destination settings, and either asking for no registration or holding an approved one. A country counts here however it became usable, including one enabled for you automatically when your organization set its business address.
      - `pending` CountryCode[], required: Countries whose registration is under way and waiting on us or on a carrier. Nothing is asked of you for these; they move to `active` when the registration is approved.
      - `needs_attention` CountryCode[], required: Countries you have registered for that are not working, and so are waiting on you: the registration was refused or withdrawn, or it is approved but the destination is switched off in your SMS destination settings. While this sender's number is missing the paperwork proving you own it, every country you have registered for is listed here, because none of them can carry a message until that is settled.
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required
    - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `next_cursor` string, nullable, required: Cursor for the next page. Pass back as `starting_after` to advance forward. `null` when no next page exists.
  - `prev_cursor` string, nullable, required: Cursor for the previous page. Pass back as `ending_before` to step backward. `null` when no previous page exists.
  - `refresh_cursor` string, nullable, required: Refresh anchor, the first row of this response. Pass back as `ending_before` to fetch what precedes it in the current sort order. On a newest-first sort those are the items that have appeared since; on any other sort they are the items that sort earlier, so refreshing such a list means re-fetching it instead. Non-`null` whenever `data` is non-empty; `null` only on an empty page. Distinct from `prev_cursor`.
  - `total` integer, nullable: Total number of items matching the request's filters across all pages. Present only when `include_total=true` was passed; otherwise `null`.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `a1977645a499`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-10-20** `6cec81ac4862`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2026-10-20** `3e2a50466454`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/messagebird/apis/bird-api/changes/v1/sms/senders/get.md)

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