OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Kickbox Email Account Verification API
description: 'REST API for verifying the deliverability of email addresses with Kickbox.
Endpoint paths and authentication are derived from the official Kickbox PHP
SDK at https://github.com/kickboxio/kickbox-php (see HttpClient.php and
Api/Kickbox.php), which is the canonical client for the production API.
'
version: 2.0.0
contact:
name: Kickbox
url: https://kickbox.com/
email: help@kickbox.com
servers:
- url: https://api.kickbox.com
description: Kickbox production API.
- url: https://open.kickbox.io
description: Kickbox Open (disposable lookup) API.
security:
- TokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Verification
description: Real-time email verification.
paths:
/v2/verify:
get:
tags:
- Verification
summary: Verify a single email address
operationId: verifyEmail
parameters:
- name: email
in: query
required: true
description: The email address to verify.
schema:
type: string
format: email
- name: timeout
in: query
required: false
description: Verification timeout in milliseconds.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1000
maximum: 30000
default: 6000
responses:
'200':
description: Verification result.
headers:
X-Kickbox-Balance:
description: Remaining verification credits.
schema:
type: integer
X-Kickbox-Response-Time:
description: Backend processing time in milliseconds.
schema:
type: integer
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/VerificationResult'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
schemas:
VerificationResult:
type: object
properties:
result:
type: string
enum:
- deliverable
- undeliverable
- risky
- unknown
reason:
type: string
description: Reason code such as accepted_email, rejected_email, invalid_smtp, etc.
role:
type: boolean
free:
type: boolean
disposable:
type: boolean
accept_all:
type: boolean
did_you_mean:
type: string
sendex:
type: number
minimum: 0
maximum: 1
email:
type: string
user:
type: string
domain:
type: string
success:
type: boolean
message:
type: string
responses:
Unauthorized:
description: Missing or invalid API key.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
success:
type: boolean
message:
type: string
securitySchemes:
TokenAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: token
description: 'Kickbox API key sent in the Authorization header in the form
`Authorization: token YOUR_API_KEY`.
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