Learning About Sending MMS with Bandwidth and GIPHY APIs

This blog post provides an overview of how to send Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) using Bandwidth's Messaging V2 product. MMS is a method of sending text messages that contain media files like images, videos, audio, and GIFs, which SMS cannot do. The limit on file size with MMS varies depending on carrier, but it is generally recommended not to send any files larger than 500 kb to avoid issues with these limits. To send an MMS using Bandwidth's API, you need a Bandwidth account enabled for V2 Messaging and all the proper credentials for that account, coding skills (NodeJS is used in this example), an account with GIPHY, and a desire to find awesome GIFs on the Internet. The process involves setting up requirements, defining a Bandwidth client using credentials, creating a GIPHY API URL using command line arguments, sending a request to GIPHY to pull a GIF, and finally sending an MMS.