---
title: "List SMS templates"
description: "Retrieve your SMS templates, cursor-paginated. `GET /api/v1/sms/templates`"
url: https://www.unitpost.com/docs/sms/get-sms-templates
section: "SMS API reference"
updated: 2026-10-13
---
# List SMS templates

`GET /api/v1/sms/templates`

Retrieve your SMS templates, cursor-paginated. An SMS template is a plain-text `body` with the same `{{variable}}` placeholders email templates use, filled per recipient at send time. Only `published` templates can be used by an SMS campaign. Requires the `templates:read` capability.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | query | integer | no | Max rows to return (default 20, max 100). |
| `after` | query | string | no | Return rows after this id (forward paging). |
| `before` | query | string | no | Return rows before this id (backward paging). |

## Response fields (200)

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `object` | string | yes | — |
| `id` | string | yes | — |
| `name` | string | yes | — |
| `body` | string | yes | — |
| `status` | enum | yes | One of: `draft`, `published`. |
| `created_at` | string | yes | — |
| `updated_at` | string | yes | — |

## Responses

| Status | Description |
| --- | --- |
| 200 | A page of SMS templates. |
| 401 | Missing or invalid API key. |
| 403 | Insufficient scope. |
| 404 | SMS is not enabled for this workspace. |
| 422 | Invalid pagination params. |

## Example request

```bash
curl -X GET 'https://www.unitpost.com/api/v1/sms/templates' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'
```

## Example response (200)

```json
{
  "object": "list",
  "has_more": false,
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "sms_template",
      "id": "id_123",
      "name": "Example",
      "body": "string",
      "status": "draft",
      "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Links

- HTML reference (with Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Java, Rust, .NET and CLI examples): https://www.unitpost.com/docs/sms/get-sms-templates
- OpenAPI 3.1 (full schemas): https://www.unitpost.com/api/v1/openapi.json