If you've ever built a bot, scraper, or testing pipeline that needs to verify a phone number, you know the pain: SIM cards, forwarding services, juggling multiple numbers manually. Tell A Bot solves this — it gives you temporary US phone numbers on demand, receives the SMS, and hands you back the OTP code. All via API.
We just published a Python SDK on GitHub, so I wanted to walk through what it looks like in practice.
What is Tell A Bot?
Tell A Bot is a service for receiving SMS online using temporary US phone numbers. You request a number for one of 700+ supported services, the number waits for an incoming SMS, and once it arrives you read the message and the extracted PIN code through the API.
Common use cases:
