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cURL Examples

Examples for using the nofakemails API with cURL.

Single Email Validation

Validate a single email address using a GET request to the /v1/email/{email} endpoint.

curl -X GET "https://api.nofakemails.com/v1/email/user@example.com" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response:

{
  "email": "user@example.com",
  "valid": true,
  "normalized": "user@example.com",
  "local_part": "user",
  "alias": false,
  "ascii": true,
  "role": null,
  "gibberish": false,
  "gibberish_score": 0.12,
  "domain": "example.com",
  "mx": true,
  "disposable": false,
  "public": false,
  "relay": false,
  "typo": false,
  "typo_suggestion": null
}

See the Response Format page for a full description of every field.

Batch Validation

Validate multiple email addresses in a single POST request to the /v1/emails endpoint.

curl -X POST "https://api.nofakemails.com/v1/emails" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "emails": [
      "user1@example.com",
      "user2@gmail.com",
      "test@tempmail.com"
    ]
  }'

Response:

{
  "success": true,
  "partial": false,
  "total": 3,
  "valid_count": 3,
  "invalid_count": 0,
  "error_count": 0,
  "usage_points": 3,
  "processing_time_ms": 182,
  "results": [
    {
      "email": "user1@example.com",
      "status": "success",
      "result": {
        "email": "user1@example.com",
        "valid": true,
        "normalized": "user1@example.com",
        "local_part": "user1",
        "alias": false,
        "ascii": true,
        "role": null,
        "gibberish": false,
        "gibberish_score": 0.11,
        "domain": "example.com",
        "mx": true,
        "disposable": false,
        "public": false,
        "relay": false,
        "typo": false,
        "typo_suggestion": null
      },
      "error": null
    },
    {
      "email": "user2@gmail.com",
      "status": "success",
      "result": {
        "email": "user2@gmail.com",
        "valid": true,
        "normalized": "user2@gmail.com",
        "local_part": "user2",
        "alias": false,
        "ascii": true,
        "role": null,
        "gibberish": false,
        "gibberish_score": 0.10,
        "domain": "gmail.com",
        "mx": true,
        "disposable": false,
        "public": true,
        "relay": false,
        "typo": false,
        "typo_suggestion": null
      },
      "error": null
    },
    {
      "email": "test@tempmail.com",
      "status": "success",
      "result": {
        "email": "test@tempmail.com",
        "valid": true,
        "normalized": "test@tempmail.com",
        "local_part": "test",
        "alias": false,
        "ascii": true,
        "role": null,
        "gibberish": false,
        "gibberish_score": 0.10,
        "domain": "tempmail.com",
        "mx": true,
        "disposable": true,
        "public": false,
        "relay": false,
        "typo": false,
        "typo_suggestion": null
      },
      "error": null
    }
  ]
}

Each item in results contains the full validation result. See the Batch Validation response format for details on the envelope fields and per-email result structure.