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.

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 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 import requests email = 'info@api-ninjas.com' api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/validateemail?email={}'.format(email) response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}) if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok: print(response.text) else: print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)

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.