Numbers Online Receipts API

Signed, privacy-safe lookup receipts (Ed25519) — verifiable "checked as of T" evidence

Operations 2

GET /api/v1/receipts/{id} Retrieve a signed lookup receipt #
GET /api/v1/publickey Ed25519 signing public key #

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OpenAPI Specification

numbers-online-receipts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Numbers Online Phone Intelligence Receipts API
  description: Phone number parsing, validation, and inbound caller-intelligence as a supplementary signal.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Phone Numbers Online
    url: https://numbers.online
servers:
- url: https://numbers.online
  description: Production server
- url: http://localhost:3000
  description: Development server
tags:
- name: Receipts
  description: Signed, privacy-safe lookup receipts (Ed25519) — verifiable "checked as of T" evidence
paths:
  /api/v1/receipts/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Receipts
      summary: Retrieve a signed lookup receipt
      description: 'Fetch a signed, privacy-safe receipt by its unguessable id (the id is the capability — no API key needed, so TCPA-defense evidence can be shared with counsel). PII-free: the number appears only as number_hash. Verify response_signature over signed_payload with the Ed25519 key from GET /api/v1/publickey, then recompute sha256(your number) and match it against number_hash. A supplementary signal, not a compliance assertion.'
      operationId: getReceipt
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          example: nol_rec_8sd91kfh20aJ
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The signed receipt.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Receipt'
        '404':
          description: No receipt with that id.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
  /api/v1/publickey:
    get:
      tags:
      - Receipts
      summary: Ed25519 signing public key
      description: The Ed25519 public key (SPKI PEM) used to sign inbound-lookup responses and lookup receipts, so any verifier can check a signature without out-of-band key exchange. NO AUTH. public_key_pem is null when no signing key is configured (responses ship "unsigned").
      operationId: publicKey
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The public key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  algorithm:
                    type: string
                    example: ed25519
                  public_key_pem:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                    example: '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n...\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          example: false
          description: Legacy field emitted ONLY by the pre-v1 parse family (/api/parse, /api/parse/bulk, /api/countries). /v1 routes return only `error` — do not depend on `success` there.
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message (prose — switch on `code`, not on this string).
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
          - missing_key
          - invalid_key
          - use_case_forbidden
          - rate_limited_key
          - rate_limited_pool
          - rate_limited_ip
          - signature_invalid
          - insufficient_balance
          - account_suspended
          - paid_verification_required
          - receipt_invalid
          description: 'Stable machine-readable error code (added 2026-06-12, additive — older errors may omit it). See the "Error codes" section in the API description for the full table. A valid key on the wrong use case returns 403 use_case_forbidden (not 401): re-authing will not fix a permissions problem.'
        retry_after_seconds:
          type: integer
          description: 'Present on 429s: seconds until the window resets (mirrors the Retry-After header).'
      required:
      - error
    Receipt:
      type: object
      description: A signed lookup receipt (plan 3.3). No raw phone number is stored — only number_hash = sha256(E.164). Verify response_signature over the exact signed_payload bytes with the Ed25519 public key (GET /api/v1/publickey), then recompute sha256(your E.164) and match number_hash to bind the receipt to a number. Because a phone number is a small keyspace, number_hash is recomputable from a candidate number — treat the receipt id as bound to a specific number, not as anonymized, and share it only with parties entitled to know that number. A supplementary signal, not a compliance assertion.
      properties:
        receipt_id:
          type: string
          example: nol_rec_8sd91kfh20aJ
        schema_version:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: '2026-06-03'
        number_hash:
          type: string
          description: SHA-256 hex of the E.164 — the only number representation stored.
        line_type:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: mobile
        dnc_status:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          enum:
          - not_listed
          - listed
          - unknown
          description: Supplementary do-not-call signal; "unknown" until a data partner is configured.
        reassigned_status:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          enum:
          - 'no'
          - 'yes'
          - unknown
        context:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: mcp:dnc_check
        checked_at:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
          description: The "as of T" the receipt cryptographically binds.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        signed_payload:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The exact canonical JSON that was signed (commits to number_hash).
        response_signature:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: '''ed25519:<base64>'', or ''unsigned''.'
        verification:
          type: object
          properties:
            algorithm:
              type: string
              example: ed25519
            public_key_url:
              type: string
              example: https://numbers.online/api/v1/publickey
            instructions:
              type: string
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: Per-key rate limit exceeded. Retry after the number of seconds in the Retry-After header.
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          schema:
            type: integer
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key
      description: API key for authentication
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer token authentication
    CidQueryKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: key
      description: API key in the `?key=` query param. Accepted by the header-less PBX endpoint GET /api/v1/cid/{number} and by the webhook adapters POST /api/v1/integrations/retell/inbound, POST /api/v1/integrations/vapi/tool, and POST /api/v1/sbc/redirect, whose upstream platforms set only a static webhook URL and cannot send an Authorization/X-API-Key header. The key can leak into access logs — use a dedicated, rotated key, and prefer header auth wherever the client supports it.