tmpsms was pretty much a wrapper around Upmasked's temporary SMS service but Upmasked seems to have taken down their website as well as their GitHub account. tmpsms may come back in the future if I can find another reliable SMS service. But even if I do find one sometime soon, it unlikely I will further develop tmpsms to use that service as I have other priorities.
A temporary SMS right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
tmpsms is a command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to get a
temporary phone number and receive SMSes. It uses Upmasked temporary SMS service in order to receive the messages. This is a very useful
tool for those testing applications during bug bounty hunting or who just need some privacy and don't want to use a personal phone number.
This is easy to use with simple outputs. tmpsms can be integrated with other scripts to improve your workflow.
# Download the tmpsms file and make it executable
$ curl -L "https://git.io/tmpsms" > tmpsms && chmod +x tmpsms
# Then move it somewhere in your $PATH. Here is an example:
$ mv tmpsms ~/bin/$ tmpsms --help
tmpsms [--count <count>]
tmpsms init [--fzf <arguments>]
tmpsms -h | --version
When called with no options or commands, tmpsms lists
the 3 newest messages.
Options
-h, --help Show this help message
-c, --count Only show the <count> newest messages
--version Show version
Commands
init Initialize a new phone number by selecting one
from the available ones using 'fzf'
--fzf Extra arguments to use for 'fzf'Initialize a new phone number
$ tmpsms initView the 5 newest messages. By default tmpsms shows the 3 newest messages.
$ tmpsms --count 5If you find it a hassle to rerun tmpsms every few seconds, use watch with a delay of 5 seconds. Upmasked only updates messages every 5 seconds.
$ watch -n 5 "tmpsms"