Getting started with RingCentral APIs

Hi guys,

Today I going to write how to create the first application with ring central. Ring central team has come up with good platform to integrate SMS, call management, scheduling a meeting conference for enterprise business needs.

Anyways, as a part of that program, I started exploring the different APIs that Ring Central provides. What I found is there are amazing APIs offered by Ring Central to send SMS, Call, Fax and many more.

Creating application was also very easy and can be created and implemented in minutes which I can show in below steps:

Step 1: We need to get into Ring Central developer account to start with here https://developers.ringcentral.com

Step 2: Once there, we need to log into the developers account with our email id and password. For new user, we need to create a new developer account.

Step 3: We can now see the dashboard of developers platform. All we now need to do is create a new application by hitting the CreateApp button in right top:

Now we can start creating our new application. We need to fill the application name and description as below:

You can give and name and description as your wish.

Step 4: Now in our application configuration, we need to select the platform type. Since it was my first application and I didn’t have any programming platform installed in my system,for making it simple I choose windows platform as below:

Step 5: Next step is simple. We need to choose the type of application I am creating. For now I selected SMS as I am going to create an application which will be capable in sending SMS feature using the APIs:

Once creation application is done, we can see it created in the dashboard of developers platform as below:

We will now move to https://developers.ringcentral.com/api-reference to test our application with Ring Central APIs where we need to authorize our created application:

Step 7: Now the most important step. We need to select the feature the application created for. My first application I created is to send SMS via Ring Central API. So I need to select SMS feature as below:

Step 8: That’s it! We can now test our application via Ring Central API by providing all required inputs. Below image I am testing the API feature of sending SMS message by providing the number, message text etc. I have blurred the input for security:

that’s it, we have tested our ring central first application.