Phone Number Scoring
This method serves as an additional layer of protection in your system for validating phone numbers. It not only checks the syntax but also assesses the likelihood of the phone number being valid and operational.
By incorporating this scoring into your workflow, you can enhance fraud detection, reduce invalid inputs, and improve the overall quality of data captured.
Query Parameters
The phone command is used to specify the phone number you want to validate.
Expected values: a phone number
Sample value: +12121234567, 0012121234567, 12121234567, or 2121234567
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format of the country code of the phone number. Learn more
Sample value: US
The format command is used to get a response in a specific format.
Expected values: JSON, XML, CSV, or Newline
For more information please refer to Response Format.
The mode command is used to in the development stage to simulate the integration process before releasing it to the production environment.
Expected values: live, or test.
For more information please refer to Development Environment.
The userID command can be used to identify requests sent by specific users to monitor in the Events Page.
Expected values: email address, phone number, user id, name, etc.
For more information please refer to User Identifier.
The callback command can help you make the response as a JSONP format.
Expected values: any name that can be used as a function name in Javascript, e.g: myFunctionName.
For more information please refer to JSONP Callback.
Response properties
Carrier name of the phone number.
The reason behind considering this phone number as risky.
Note: The value of this property will be empty if the isValid is true.
A boolean value that you can rely on to determine if the phone number is 100% safe & valid or not.
The response status.
Expected values: success, or error.
Time spent in milliseconds to process the data.
What can I expect from this API?
- Detection of disposable email addresses (also known as Temporary Email Addresses)
- Testing the email service provider of a given email address
- Validation of email syntax
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