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Email Validation APIs›Email Checker API

Check and Validate Email Addresses with our fast and reliable Email Verification API

Our email checker api lets you validate email addresses, mx records, domain names, disposable and temporary email addresses, catch all email addresses, role based emails and other email analysis parameters.

Use our real time email verification API to clean your email lists, prevent malicious users signing up to your product, block unwanted disposable and temporary email addresses making fraudulent purchases, preempt genuine users making typographical mistakes while entering email addresses with our syntax checker, detect spam traps and catch all email addresses.

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Features

MX Records Verification

Verify MX records of Top Level Domain (TLD) of the email address to block out all email addresses from a domain with invalid MX Records.

Email Syntax Verification

Verify email syntax as the user types in the address to prevent genuine users from making mistakes and prevent sending emails to invalid email addresses.

Temporary and Disposable Email Detection

Prevent attackers and fraudsters from using Temporary and Disposable email addresses on your website to perform illegitimate actions on your landing pages and web forms. Our database covers almost all of the disposable mailbox providers.

Detect Spam Traps and Role Based Accounts

Prevent sending emails to Spam Traps and Role based email accounts to avoid compromising your email deliverability and sender reputation, and reduce bounce rates, and boost email open rates.

B2B Contacts Validation

Our Email Validator lets you detect free email providers and allows you to do correspondence only with genuine businesses.

Catch All Domain Detection

Catch all domains accept emails sent to any random addresses even if the mailbox does not exist causing increased bounce rates, wastage of resources, triggering ISPs to mark you spam and damaging to your sender quality score. Yahoo and disposable email providers are the examples of catch all domains.

IP Geolocation Detection

Optionally pass the IP Address of the user filling in web forms to accurately get the location of the person.

VPN, Proxy and Tor Detection

Detect and prevent bots and noisy users hiding behind TOR exits, Proxies and VPNs from spammings your system and email lists. It has been observed that spammers and fraudsters always use VPN, residential proxies and TOR exits

Multiple Response Formats

Our API supports both json and xml formats for single and bulk email validation.

API Endpoint

POST

https://api.apifreaks.com/v1.0/email-validation/single

Test

Explore the complete API reference with detailed request parameters, response fields, error codes, and code examples visit API Reference.

LANGUAGE


$ pip install requests
import requests 
import json

url = "https://api.apifreaks.com/v1.0/email-validation/single?format=json"

payload = json.dumps({
  "email": "abc@example.com"
})
headers = {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'X-apiKey': 'API-KEY'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

How-To-Guides

Validate an Email Address

Provide an email address in the request body to receive validation results, including syntax, domain, DNS, and account details.

curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://api.apifreaks.com/v1.0/email-validation/single?apiKey=API-KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "email": "someone@gmail.com",
    "name": "ABC Person"
}'

# Response
{
    "success": true,
    "email": "someone@gmail.com",
    "name": "ABC Person",
    "validEmail": "valid",
    "validSyntax": true,
    "domain": {
        "name": "gmail.com",
        "disposable": false,
        "spam": false,
        "free": true,
        "validDomain": true,
        "catchAll": false
    },
    "account": {
        "role": false,
        "fullMailBox": false
    },
    "dns": {
        "mxRecords": [
            "gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com."
        ]
    }
}

Validate an Email with IP Enrichment

Including an IP address in the request body enriches the response with detailed security insights and precise location data for that IP.

curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://api.apifreaks.com/v1.0/email-validation/single?apiKey=API-KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "email": "someone@gmail.com",
    "name": "ABC Person",
    "ip": "223.226.82.170"
}'

# Response
{
    "success": true,
    "email": "someone@gmail.com",
    "name": "ABC Person",
    "validEmail": "valid",
    "validSyntax": true,
    "domain": {
        "name": "gmail.com",
        "disposable": false,
        "spam": false,
        "free": true,
        "validDomain": true,
        "catchAll": false
    },
    "account": {
        "role": false,
        "fullMailBox": false
    },
    "dns": {
        "mxRecords": [
            "gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.",
            "alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com."
        ]
    },
    "ip": "223.226.82.170",
    "address": {
        "location": {
            "city": "Gurugram",
            "district": "Sector 39",
            "confidence": "high",
            "zipcode": "122003",
            "state_prov": "Haryana",
            "country_name": "India",
            "continent_name": "Asia",
            "continent_code": "AS",
            "country_code2": "IN",
            "country_code3": "IND",
            "country_name_official": "Republic of India",
            "accuracy_radius": "28.813",
            "is_eu": false
        },
        "security": {
            "threat_score": 90,
            "is_tor": false,
            "is_proxy": true,
            "proxy_type": "VPN",
            "proxy_provider": "",
            "is_anonymous": true,
            "is_known_attacker": true,
            "is_spam": true,
            "is_bot": false,
            "is_cloud_provider": false,
            "cloud_provider": ""
        },
        "validIpAddress": true
    }
}

FAQs

Email check APIs can be used in real-time for user sign-ups or contact forms, providing instant feedback.

With Real-time email verification API, we provide results as the users input their information. This reduces bounce rates by eliminating invalid email addresses before they are added to the database. It flags role based email addresses and spam traps to help identify email quality. This leads to better email marketing ROI by ensuring that more emails reach valid recipients.

Disposable email addresses are the email addresses that don t belong to any real user. They are offered by third party service such as mailinator and temp-email. They are used by users for temporary services and are often used to perform fake signups, spam and abuse the system. Detecting disposable emails is crucial for businesses to avoid fake signups, prevent entry of the harmful data into the databases and improve email deliverability and sender reputation.

It is the strategy of maintaining clean and effective email list to ensure that only valid and deliverable addresses are included. Using email hygiene practices protects sender reputation by minimizing bounces and controlling spam complaints. Regularly cleaning your email list increases the likelihood of emails reaching the inbox.

Email verification technology typically involves multiple steps including syntax checks and domain verification. We perform a series of automated checks to verify email addresses without sending an actual email in order to improve your deliverability and reduce bounce rates in your email marketing efforts.

We provide a RESTful email verification api that can be integrated with any HTTP client. We provide extensive documentation and SDKs to help users quickly begin integrations in different platforms including .NET, Java, Python, PHP and NodeJs. We also integrate with popular platforms like Zapier, n8n and make to help you connect with any tool supported by them. Apart from that, we also provide code snippets that allow you to perform real-time email validation directly on the web forms.

Pricing

To use the Email Checker API, you will need API credits. We only charge for successful queries, defined by a 2xx status code. If your request results in a 4xx or 5xx status code, no credits will be charged, and any deducted credits will be returned.

For each successful request, 15 credits are charged.

Utilize the Credits Usage API to efficiently monitor your recent consumption of both one-off and subscription credits. This API provides a streamlined way to track and manage your credit usage, ensuring you stay informed about your remaining balance and can optimize your resource allocation effectively.

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