---
title: "List SMS messages"
method: GET
path: "/v1/messages"
tags: ["SMS"]
---

# List SMS messages

`GET /v1/messages`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.revdesk.com`
- URL: `https://api.revdesk.com/v1/messages`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Returns recent SMS messages for the authenticated organization, newest first. Direction is derived per message: inbound messages came from the contact's number, outbound messages were sent from one of your numbers.

## Query parameters

- `limit` number
- `direction` 'inbound' | 'outbound'

## Response `200`

Success

- object
  - `data` object[], required
    - `id` string, required
    - `phone_number` string, nullable, required
    - `direction` 'inbound' | 'outbound', required
    - `content` string, required
    - `status` string, required
    - `contact_name` string, nullable, required
    - `contact_email` string, nullable, required
    - `contact_token` string, nullable, required
    - `created_at` string, required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `cursor` string
    - `total_results` number
    - `page_size` number

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation error
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not found
- `409`: Conflict (incl. idempotency conflicts)
- `429`: Rate limited

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api/revisions/fcbd43530a48?raw)