Email Validation and Verification API

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https://emailvalidation.abstractapi.com/v1/
    ? api_key = YOUR_API_KEY
    & domain = eric@abstractapi.com

{
    "email": "eric@abstractapi.com",
    "autocorrect": "",
    "deliverability": "DELIVERABLE",
    "quality_score": 0.80,
    "is_valid_format": true,
    "is_free_email": false
   
"is_disposable_email": false
    "is_role_email":
false
    "is_catchall_email": true
    "is_mx_found": true
    "is_smtp_valid": true
}

Email Validation
and Verification API

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Real-time
MX & SMTP check
Typo checking
and smart suggestion
Disposable and
free email providers check
Privacy friendly
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We built Abstract because most of the API's we've used aren't great for developers. That's why Abstract has excellent documentation, multiple easy to use libraries, and tutorials to get you started.

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Reliable uptime and great support

Developers trust Abstract because of our reliable uptime and excellent technical support that will help get you live quickly, keep you running smoothly, and resolve any issues you have fast.

The Email Validation and Verification API ensures you have clean and reliable email lists

Powerful email validation and verification

Verify and validate emails before they're saved to your database to ensure you have only real, high value users. Our simple yet powerful API allows you to focus on your business, not email quality.

Identify disposable and free email providers

Abstract maintains one of the largest and most frequently updated databases of free and disposable email addresses, so you can identify them and decide to filter them or not.

Typo checking and smart suggestions

User can make mistakes in entering their email (e.g., john@gmial.com), and Abstract's Email Validation API will catch those along with our checks and even recommend a correct email.

Real-time SMTP checks

The domain of each email is pinged to ensure it's not only live but able to accept email. The API will also check whether or not the domain has a catch-all configuration enabled.

Role checking and filters

The API also automatically checks for role-based emails (such as sales@domain.com or team@domain.com), so you don't have to create and maintain rules for this.

Protected by bank-level security

Security is also a top concern of ours, so all data that is sent to Abstract's Email Validation API and processed there is secured via 256-bit SSL encryption (HTTPS). Stay GDPR compliant by using our GDPR cookie banner creator.

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  • 100 requests
  • 1 request / second

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$9

per
month

  • 5,000 requests / month
  • 3 requests / second
  • Commercial use allowed
  • Email support

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$49

per
month

  • 50,000 requests / month
  • 10 requests / second
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  • Premium enriched data
  • Email support

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  • 100,000 requests / month
  • 25 requests / second
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Email Validation and Verification API Documentation

REST

The Email Validation and Verification API, like all of Abstract's APIs, is organized around REST. It is designed to use predictable, resource-oriented URL's and to use HTTP status codes to indicate errors.

HTTPS

The Email Validation and Verification API requires all communications to be secured TLS 1.2 or greater.

API Versions

All of Abstract's API are versioned. The Email Validation and Verification API is currently on Version 1.

Your API Key

Your API key is your unique authentication key to be used to access Abstract's Exchange Rate API. Note that each of Abstract's API has a unique API key, so you will need different keys to access the Email Validation and Verification and IP Geolocation APIs, for example. To authenticate your requests, you will need to append your API key to the base URL.

Base URL

https://emailvalidation.abstractapi.com/v1/

Using the Email Validation and Verification API

Abstract's Email Validation and Verification API requires only your unique API key and a single email:

https://emailvalidation.abstractapi.com/v1/
    ? api_key = YOUR_UNIQUE_API_KEY
    & email = johnsmith@gmail.com

This was a successful request, and all available details about that email were returned:

{
    "email": "johnsmith@gmail.com",
    "autocorrect": "",
    "is_valid_format": true,
    "is_free_email": true,
    "is_disposable_email": false,
    "is_role_email": false,
    "is_catchall_email": false,
    "is_mx_found": true,
    "is_smtp_valid": true,
    "quality_score": 0.99,
}

Email Validation API - Request Parameters

PARAMETER

TYPE

DETAILS

api_key required

String

Your unique API key. Note that each user has unique API keys for each of Abstract's APIs, so your Exchange Rate API key will not work for as your IP Geolocation API key, for example.

email required

String

The email address to validate.

Email Validation API - Response

The API response is returned in a universal and lightweight JSON format.

PARAMETER

TYPE

DETAILS

email

String

The value for "email" that was entered into the request.

auto_correct

String

If a typo has been detected then this parameter returns a suggestion of the correct email (e.g., johnsmith@gmial.com => johnsmith@gmail.com). If no typo is detected then this is empty.

is_valid_format

Boolean

Is true if the email follows the format of "address @ domain . TLD". If any of those elements are missing or if they contain extra or incorrect special characters, then it returns false.

is_free_email

Boolean

Is true if the email's domain is found among Abstract's list of free email providers (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, etc).

is_disposable_email

Boolean

Is true if the email's domain is found among Abstract's list of disposable email providers (e.g., Mailinator, Yopmail, etc).

is_role_email

Boolean

Is true if the email's local part (e.g., the "to" part) appears to be for a role rather than individual. Examples of this include "team@", "sales@", info@", etc.

is_catchall_email

Boolean

Is true if the domain is configured to catch all email.

is_mx_found

Boolean

Is true if MX Records for the domain can be found.

is_smtp_valid

Boolean

Is true is the SMTP check of the domain was successful.

quality_score

Number

An internal decimal score between 0.01 and 0.99 reflecting Abstract's confidence in the quality and deliverability of the submitted email.

Example: A Misspelled Email

In the example below, we show the request and response when the API detects a possible misspelling in the requested email.

Note that even if a possible misspelling is detected, all of the other checks on that email (e.g., free email, disposable domain, etc) will still be done against the original submitted email, not against the autocorrected email.

https://emailvalidation.abstractapi.com/v1/
    ? api_key = YOUR_UNIQUE_API_KEY
    & email = johnsmith@gmial.con

The request was valid and successful, and so it returns the following:

{
    "email": "johnsmith@gmial.con",
    "autocorrect": "johnsmith@gmail.com",
    "is_valid_format": true,
    "is_free_email": true,
    "is_disposable_email": false,
    "is_role_email": false,
    "is_catchall_email": false,
    "is_mx_found": false,
    "is_smtp_valid": false,
    "quality_score": 0.13,
}

Example: A Malformed Email

In the example below, we show the request and response for an email does not follow the proper format. If the email fails the is_valid_format check, then the other checks (e.g., is_free_email, is_role_email) will not be performed and will be returned as false

https://emailvalidation.abstractapi.com/v1/
    ? api_key = YOUR_UNIQUE_API_KEY
    & email = johnsmith

The request was valid and successful, and so it returns the following:

{
    "email": "johnsmith",
    "autocorrect": "",
    "is_valid_format": false,
    "is_free_email": false,
    "is_disposable_email": false,
    "is_role_email": false,
    "is_catchall_email": false,
    "is_mx_found": false,
    "is_smtp_valid": false,
    "quality_score": 0.00,
}

Response and Error Codes

Whenever you make a request that fails for some reason, an error is returned also in the JSON format. The errors include an error code and description, which you can find in detail below.

CODE

TYPE

DETAILS

200

OK

Everything worked as expected.

400

Bad request

Bad request

401

Unauthorized

The request was unacceptable. Typically due to the API key missing or incorrect.

500

Internal Server Error

The request could not be completed due to an error on the server side.

503

Service Unavailable

The server was unavailable.

Frequently Asked Questions
about Abstract's Email Validation API

What is the email verification API?

The Abstract email verification API takes an email address and identifies whether it is valid or not, and how risky we think it will be. This real-time or asynchronous capability will help you detect and suppress any invalid or disposable email addresses, which will help clean your email list, reduce your bounce rate, and thus improve your email delivery rate for legitimate users. Email verification is especially powerful when combined with tools like the IP geolocation API and / or the phone number validation API to provide simple checks for new users.

What kind checks does the email verification API do?

Abstract's email verification API uses a variety of increasingly sophisticated and frequently updated techniques to ensure you suppress all invalid or risky emails. These techniques include (but are not limited to): checking for syntax errors and typos in the email address (e.g., john@gnamil.com), doing real time SMTP and MX record checks against the email's domain, performing a sophisticated regular expression (regex) check on the email, and using a variety of other filters backed by machine learning to detect invalid or risky emails.

What other options does the email validation API provide for filtering?

We can also identify and flag other characteristics of an email, such as whether it's from a free email provider (such as Yahoo or Gmail), whether it's from a disposable email services (such as Yopmail), and whether it's from a 'role' email address (such as team@ or @sales@).

We can also help you identify emails that are from recently registered domains, even if those domains otherwise past other filters. Recently registered domains and emails can signal that the user is fraudulent, spammy, or in some other way needs to be reviewed.

Developers around the world love Abstract's Email ValidationAPI

Spammy signs up were an issue for us for a while, and we struggled to come up with the best way to identify all the variations in bad emails we were getting. Thankfully we found and quickly integrated with Abstract's email validation API, which saved us a bunch of time and gave us peace of mind.

Chris Stanley, Scope

Quick to implement. Very accurate results. Great documentation. And most importantly... FAST results. You don't want a good user stuck waiting on a sign up form or somewhere else in your process for you to validate their info. Abstract's email validation API really gives you all of those in one package.

Patrick Stephenson, Software Engineer

We didn't realize for months how bad our email deliverability was. And then we traced it back to the source and found we had a ton of low quality and obviously spam emails in our database. One pass with Abstract's email validation API and a quick check on our sign up for and the problem is solved!

Megan Winston, Software Engineer

Email Validation and Verification API Changelog

Last Updated on 

February 26, 2021

February 26, 2021

 - 

Improved response time by 27%

February 16, 2021

 - 

Allow user to specify what fields and objects are included or not in the response using the "field" value in the request

February 12, 2021

 - 

Improve validations specific to Microsoft Office emails

November 20, 2020

 - 

Updated list of disposable and free email provides (+51)

August 14, 2020

 - 

Updated typos in docs and error handling for white spaces in submitted emails

August 12, 2020

 - 

Added 100+ new domains for disposable and free email services

July 2, 2020

 - 

Added 50+ new disposable email providers to the block list

June 10, 2020

 - 

Sped up MX and other domain checks to reduce overall response time by 25+ MS

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