NeverBounce Single API

Real-time verification of a single email address.

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openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: NeverBounce Single API
  version: '4.2'
  description: Real-time verification of a single email address. Part of the NeverBounce v4 email verification
    API. Harvested from the OpenAPI definition NeverBounce publishes behind its interactive API reference
    at developers.neverbounce.com (ReadMe API Designer definition `neverbounce-api.json`).
  contact:
    name: NeverBounce Support
    email: support@neverbounce.com
    url: https://developers.neverbounce.com/
servers:
- url: https://api.neverbounce.com/v4.2
security:
- sec0: []
tags:
- name: Single
  description: Real-time verification of a single email address
paths:
  /single/check:
    get:
      summary: /check
      description: ''
      operationId: single-check
      parameters:
      - name: email
        in: query
        description: The email to verify
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: address_info
        in: query
        description: 'Include additional address info in response (default: false)'
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
      - name: credits_info
        in: query
        description: 'Include account credit info in response (default: false)'
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
      - name: timeout
        in: query
        description: The maximum time in seconds we should try to verify the address
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '200'
          content:
            application/json:
              examples:
                Result:
                  value: "{\n  \"status\": \"success\",\n  \"result\": \"valid\",\n  \"flags\": [\n  \
                    \  \"has_dns\",\n    \"has_dns_mx\"\n  ],\n  \"suggested_correction\": \"\",\n  \"\
                    execution_time\": 499\n}"
                Address Info:
                  value: "{\n  \"status\": \"success\",\n  \"result\": \"valid\",\n  \"flags\": [\n  \
                    \  \"has_dns\",\n    \"has_dns_mx\",\n    \"role_account\"\n  ],\n  \"suggested_correction\"\
                    : \"\",\n  \"address_info\": {\n    \"original_email\": \"support@neverbounce.com\"\
                    ,\n    \"normalized_email\": \"support@neverbounce.com\",\n    \"addr\": \"support\"\
                    ,\n    \"alias\": \"\",\n    \"host\": \"neverbounce.com\",\n    \"fqdn\": \"neverbounce.com\"\
                    ,\n    \"domain\": \"neverbounce\",\n    \"subdomain\": \"\",\n    \"tld\": \"com\"\
                    \n  },\n  \"execution_time\": 399\n}"
                Credits Info:
                  value: "{\n    \"status\": \"success\",\n    \"result\": \"valid\",\n    \"flags\":\
                    \ [\n        \"smtp_connectable\",\n        \"has_dns\",\n        \"has_dns_mx\"\n\
                    \    ],\n    \"suggested_correction\": \"\",\n    \"credits_info\": {\n        \"\
                    paid_credits_used\": 1,\n        \"free_credits_used\": 0,\n        \"paid_credits_remaining\"\
                    : 9950778,\n        \"free_credits_remaining\": 0\n    },\n    \"execution_time\"\
                    : 350\n}"
              schema:
                oneOf:
                - type: object
                  properties:
                    status:
                      type: string
                      example: success
                    result:
                      type: string
                      example: valid
                    flags:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                        example: has_dns
                    suggested_correction:
                      type: string
                      example: ''
                    execution_time:
                      type: integer
                      example: 499
                      default: 0
                - title: Address Info
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    status:
                      type: string
                      example: success
                    result:
                      type: string
                      example: valid
                    flags:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                        example: has_dns
                    suggested_correction:
                      type: string
                      example: ''
                    address_info:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        original_email:
                          type: string
                          example: support@neverbounce.com
                        normalized_email:
                          type: string
                          example: support@neverbounce.com
                        addr:
                          type: string
                          example: support
                        alias:
                          type: string
                          example: ''
                        host:
                          type: string
                          example: neverbounce.com
                        fqdn:
                          type: string
                          example: neverbounce.com
                        domain:
                          type: string
                          example: neverbounce
                        subdomain:
                          type: string
                          example: ''
                        tld:
                          type: string
                          example: com
                    execution_time:
                      type: integer
                      example: 399
                      default: 0
                - title: Credits Info
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    status:
                      type: string
                      example: success
                    result:
                      type: string
                      example: valid
                    flags:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                        example: smtp_connectable
                    suggested_correction:
                      type: string
                      example: ''
                    credits_info:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        paid_credits_used:
                          type: integer
                          example: 1
                          default: 0
                        free_credits_used:
                          type: integer
                          example: 0
                          default: 0
                        paid_credits_remaining:
                          type: integer
                          example: 9950778
                          default: 0
                        free_credits_remaining:
                          type: integer
                          example: 0
                          default: 0
                    execution_time:
                      type: integer
                      example: 350
                      default: 0
      deprecated: false
      x-readme:
        code-samples:
        - language: curl
          code: "# Be sure to encode email before making the request (@ becomes %40)\ncurl --request GET\\\
            \n  --url 'https://api.neverbounce.com/v4.2/single/check?key={api_key}&email={email}'"
        - language: php
          code: "<?php\n\n// Set API key\n\\NeverBounce\\Auth::setApiKey($api_key);\n\n// Make verification\
            \ request, specify optional $max_execution_time\n$result = \\NeverBounce\\Single::check(\n\
            \  'support@neverbounce.com', // Email to verify\n  true, // Address info\n  true, // Credits\
            \ info\n  10 // Timeout in seconds\n);"
        - language: javascript
          code: "// Initialize NeverBounce client\nconst client = new NeverBounce({apiKey: myApiKey});\n\
            \n/// Verify an email\nclient.single.check(\n  'support@neverbounce.com', \n  true, // Address\
            \ info\n  true // Credits info\n  10 // timeout\n).then(\n    result => // Handle success\
            \ response\n    err => // Handle error response\n);"
          name: NodeJs
        - language: python
          code: "import neverbounce_sdk\n\n# Create sdk client\nclient = neverbounce_sdk.client(api_key='api_key')\n\
            \n# Verify email\nverification = client.single_check(\n  email='support@neverbounce.com',\n\
            \  address_info=True,\n  credits_info=True,\n  timeout=10  # Timeout in seconds\n)"
        - language: go
          code: "// Instantiate wrapper\nclient := neverbounce.New(\"api_key\")\n\n// Verify an email\n\
            singleResults, err := client.Single.Check(&nbModels.SingleCheckRequestModel{\n  Email:   \
            \    \"support@neverbounce.com\",\n  AddressInfo: true,\n  CreditInfo:  true,\n  Timeout:\
            \     10,\n})"
        - language: ruby
          code: "# Instantiate API client\nclient = NeverBounce::API::Client.new(api_key: \"api_key\"\
            )\n\n# Get account info\nresp = client.single_check(\n  email: \"support@neverbounce.com\"\
            , \n  address_info: true, \n  credits_info: true, \n  timeout: 10)"
        - language: csharp
          code: "// Create SDK object\nvar sdk = new NeverBounceSdk(\"api_key\");\n\n// Create request\
            \ model\nvar model = new SingleRequestModel();\nmodel.email = \"support@neverbounce.com\"\
            ;\nmodel.credits_info = true;\nmodel.address_info = true;\nmodel.timeout = 10; \n\n// Verify\
            \ single email\nSingleResponseModel resp = await sdk.Single.Check(model);"
          name: .NET
        - language: java
          code: "// Instantiate Client\nNeverbounceClient neverbounceClient = NeverbounceClientFactory.create(apiKey);\n\
            \n// Perform verification\nSingleCheckResponse singleCheckResponse = neverbounceClient\n \
            \           .prepareSingleCheckRequest()\n            .withEmail(\"support@neverbounce.com\"\
            )\n            .withAddressInfo(true)\n            .withCreditsInfo(true)\n            .withTimeout(10)\n\
            \            .build()\n            .execute()"
        - language: node
          code: "// Initialize NeverBounce client\nconst client = new NeverBounce({apiKey: myApiKey});\n\
            try {\n  const result = await client.single.check('support@neverbounce.com');\n  console.log('Result:',\
            \ result);\n} catch (error) {\n  console.error('Error:', error);\n}"
        samples-languages:
        - curl
        - php
        - javascript
        - python
        - go
        - ruby
        - csharp
        - java
        - node
      tags:
      - Single
components:
  securitySchemes:
    sec0:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: key