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Validate Email API

The Validate Email API allows you to check whether a given email address is valid and return its metadata.

/v1/validateemail GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/validateemail

Returns metadata (including whether it is valid) for a given email address. This API will check the formatting of the email and the existence of DNS records for the domain to make sure it is a valid email address.

Parameters

  • email  required

    Email address to validate.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Response

  • is_valid  boolean

    Whether the email address is valid.

  • domain  string

    Domain of the email address.

  • email  string

    Email address.

  • mx_records  boolean

    Whether the domain has MX records.

  • is_disposable  boolean

    Whether the email address is disposable. We maintain a large database of hundreds of thousands of disposable domains and check against it for every email address.

Sample Request Live Demo!

email
https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/validateemail?email=info@api-ninjas.com

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 { "is_valid": true, "domain": "api-ninjas.com", "email": "info@api-ninjas.com", "mx_records": true, "disposable": false }

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/validateemail?email=info@api-ninjas.com" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.