IPQualityScore Phone Validation API

The Phone Validation API from IPQualityScore — 1 operation(s) for phone validation.

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ipqualityscore-phone-validation-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: IPQualityScore Device Fingerprint Phone Validation API
  description: Real-time fraud prevention and threat intelligence API from IPQualityScore (IPQS). Covers proxy/VPN/Tor and IP reputation scoring, email and phone validation, malicious URL scanning, device fingerprinting, transaction risk scoring, and dark-web leaked-data checks. The API key is passed as a path parameter and responses are returned as JSON.
  termsOfService: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/terms-of-service
  contact:
    name: IPQualityScore Support
    url: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/contact
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json
security:
- ApiKeyPath: []
tags:
- name: Phone Validation
paths:
  /phone/{api_key}/{phone}:
    get:
      operationId: phoneValidation
      tags:
      - Phone Validation
      summary: Validate a phone number.
      description: Validates a phone number across 150+ countries, returning carrier, line type, active status, geolocation, and a fraud score.
      parameters:
      - name: api_key
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Your IPQualityScore API key.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: phone
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The phone number to validate.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: country
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Comma-separated country codes to prefer for verification (e.g., US,CA).
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: strictness
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Adjusts verification requirements (0-2).
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 2
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneValidationResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    PhoneValidationResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
        message:
          type: string
        valid:
          type: boolean
        active:
          type: boolean
        formatted:
          type: string
        local_format:
          type: string
        fraud_score:
          type: integer
        recent_abuse:
          type: boolean
        VOIP:
          type: boolean
        prepaid:
          type: boolean
        risky:
          type: boolean
        name:
          type: string
        carrier:
          type: string
        line_type:
          type: string
        country:
          type: string
        region:
          type: string
        city:
          type: string
        zip_code:
          type: string
        dialing_code:
          type: integer
        active_status:
          type: string
        leaked:
          type: boolean
        do_not_call:
          type: boolean
        request_id:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyPath:
      type: apiKey
      in: path
      name: api_key
      description: IPQualityScore API key passed as a path parameter on each request.