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Africa's Talking MCP by usefulapi

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Read Africa's Talking balance, incoming SMS, transactions; send SMS, airtime, data and voice calls.

Summary by lookupd

Check balances and transactions, read incoming SMS, and send SMS, airtime, data bundles or voice calls in Africa.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http africas-talking https://africas-talking.usefulapi.io/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add africas-talking --url https://africas-talking.usefulapi.io/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "africas-talking": {
      "url": "https://africas-talking.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Tools (10 tools)

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• africastalking_get_balance The Africa's Talking app balance (SMS/airtime wallet), e.g. {"balance": "KES 1250.0000"}. The sandbox app has no balance. GET /version1/user.
• africastalking_fetch_messages Fetch incoming SMS received on your shortcodes/numbers, oldest first, in batches (default 25 per call). Pass last_received_id (0 for the first call, then `next_
• africastalking_send_sms WRITE: send one text message to up to 100 phone numbers. Spends account credit and delivers to real phones (the sandbox app only reaches the simulator). Needs c
• africastalking_send_airtime WRITE: top up mobile airtime for up to 25 phone numbers. Spends account credit immediately and cannot be reversed. Needs confirm=true after the user approved ea
• africastalking_find_airtime_transaction Look up an airtime transaction by its transaction id (the requestId / ATPid_... from a send reply): status, amount, destination and discount. GET /query/transac
• africastalking_send_mobile_data WRITE: send mobile data bundles to up to 25 phone numbers from your Africa's Talking data wallet. Spends wallet credit and cannot be reversed. Needs confirm=tru
• africastalking_find_mobile_data_transaction Look up a mobile data transaction by its transactionId (from a send reply): status, product, destination and cost. GET bundles /query/transaction/find.
• africastalking_get_mobile_data_wallet_balance The balance of the mobile data wallet, e.g. {"status": "Success", "balance": "KES 500.0000"}. GET bundles /query/wallet/balance.
• africastalking_make_voice_call WRITE: place an outbound voice call from one of your Africa's Talking numbers to up to 10 phone numbers. The call is billed and rings real phones; what is said
• africastalking_get_voice_queue_status Number of outbound calls currently queued on each of your voice numbers. Live apps only. POST voice /queueStatus (a read: nothing is changed).

Details

• Version: 1.16.3
• Transports: streamable-http
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 361 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T10:03:37.132Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-11T00:17:18.935Z
• Repository: https://github.com/m190/usefulapi-mcp
• Website: https://usefulapi.io/africas-talking/

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