Telesign Email Intelligence API
Email Intelligence API (1 operations): Email Intelligence - Submit an email address to evaluate.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Email Intelligence API
version: '1.0'
description: This spec contains details about the Telesign Email Intelligence API.
contact:
name: TeleSign Customer Support Team
email: support@telesign.com
servers:
- url: detect.telesign.com
security:
- Basic: []
- Digest: []
tags:
- name: Email Intelligence
paths:
/intelligence/email:
parameters: []
post:
summary: Email Intelligence - Submit an email address to evaluate
operationId: submitEmailAddressForEmailIntelligence
responses:
'200':
description: "**Success.** Your request was fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created. If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status code property in the response object and use that, rather than the HTTP status code. Individual packages within the response may have their own status codes as well.\n \n| Status Code | Associated Text String | Description |\n|-------------|------------------------|--------|\n| 300 | Transaction successfully completed | The system was able to obtain all of the requested data. |\n| 301 | Transaction partially completed | The system was able to obtain some of the data, but not all of it. |"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/postEmailIntResponse'
examples:
Success:
value:
reference_id: CFMJ6FTL09O22UE1KC5NBD7ZMWKTMJB8
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
code: 300
description: Transaction successfully completed
updated_on: '2024-10-06T21:25:03.420503Z'
email_address_details:
original:
'email_address ': u.s.e.rr1+telesign@gmail.comm!
is_valid: true
cleansed:
email_address: userr1@gmail.com
is_valid: true
username: userr1
domain: gmail.com
cleansing_details:
is_modified: true
gibberish_probability: 0.29
tag: telesign
domain_details:
general_info:
registered_domain: gmail.com
tld: com
tld_type: general
is_disposable: true
intelligence_details:
risk:
level: high
recommendation: block
score: 959
insights:
category:
- 10031
phone_number:
activity:
- 20003
static:
- 40005
ip_address:
activity:
- 50005
static:
- 50015
email_address:
activity:
- 60005
static:
- 60011
domain:
- 60101
'400':
description: "**Bad request.** The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status or error code and use that rather than the HTTP status response. \n\n | Status Code | Associated Text String | \n |-------------|------------------------|\n | 10032 | Request blocked due to this number appearing on a TeleSign blocklist. | \n | 10033 | Unverified phone_number requested for trial account. | \n | 10041 | Blocked due to legal compliance | \n | 11000 | Invalid value for parameter phone_number | \n | 11001 | Invalid country code for parameter phone_number | \n | 11002 | Invalid value for parameter account_id |\n | 11003 | Invalid value for parameter account_lifecycle_event | \n | 11005 | Invalid value for parameter customer_id | \n | 11006 | Invalid value for parameter device_id |\n | 11007 | Invalid value for email_address |\n | 11010 | Invalid value for parameter originating_ip | \n | 11011 | Invalid value for parameter reference_id | \n | 12000 | Missing required parameter phone_number |\n | 12003 | Missing required parameter account_lifecycle_event |\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Invalid Request:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: 10032
description: Request blocked due to this number appearing on a TeleSign blacklist.
'401':
description: "**Unauthorized.** The request requires user authentication. If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status or error code and use that rather than the HTTP status response. \n\n | Status Code | Associated Text String | \n |-------------|------------------------|\n | 10008 | Invalid signature | \n | 10009 | Invalid value for parameter message | \n | 10010 | Invalid value for parameter originating_ip | \n | 10011 | Invalid value for parameter reference_id | \n | 10012 | This feature is not enabled for this CustomerID |\n | 10013 | Invalid Request. CustomerID Account Not Found |\n | 10014 | Invalid source IP address |\n | 10015 | Invalid customer ID |\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Unauthorized:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: 10008
description: Invalid signature
'402':
description: "**Payment Required.** If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status or error code and use that rather than the HTTP status response.\n\n| Status Code | Associated Text String | \n|-------------|------------------------|\n| 10030 | Insufficient funds in prepaid wallet |\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Payment Required:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: 10030
description: Insufficient funds in prepaid wallet
'404':
description: "**Not Found.** The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status or error code and use that rather than the HTTP status response.\n\n| Status Code | Associated Text String | \n|-------------|------------------------|\n| 10017 | Customer ID / Reference ID not found |\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Not Found:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: 10017
description: Customer ID / Reference ID not found
'429':
description: "**Too Many Requests.** The user sent too many requests in a given amount of time. If you want to code against a response, you should retrieve the status or error code and use that rather than the HTTP status response.\n\n| Status Code | Associated Text String | \n|-------------|------------------------|\n| 10019 | Rate Limit Exceeded |\n| 10020 | PhoneId Standard exceeded transaction hard cap. Request denied. |\n"
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Too Many Requests:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: 10019
description: Rate Limit Exceeded
'500':
description: '**Invalid Transaction.** Transaction not attempted.'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
Invalid Transaction:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: -90001
description: Transaction not attempted
'503':
description: '**Service Unavailable.** System unavailable, try again.'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/errorObject'
examples:
System Unavailable:
value:
reference_id: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
external_id: CustomExternalID7349
status:
updated_on: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code: -10000
description: System unavailable. Please try again later.
description: 'Obtain a risk recommendation for this email address, as well as other relevant information using Email Intelligence API.
## General requirements
* **Authentication:** Basic (easiest to implement) or Digest
* **Encoding:** Accepts only **UTF-8 unicode** characters as inputs.
* **Accepts:** `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
* **Responds with:** `application/json`
* **Required headers:** `Content-Type - application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
* **Rate limit:** Default rate limits by product'
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
schema:
type: object
properties:
email_address:
type: string
description: Your end user's email address. This value is case sensitive.
account_lifecycle_event:
type: string
enum:
- create
- sign-in
- transact
- update
- delete
description: 'The attempted action associated with this email address for which you want to evaluate the risk. Acceptable values for this parameter are -
* create - For the creation of a new account.
* sign-in - For when an end user signs in to their account.
* transact - For when an end user completes a transaction within their account.
* update - For when an update is performed, such as an update of account information or similar.
* delete - For when an account is deleted.'
account_id:
type: string
description: Your end user's account ID. This value is case sensitive.
phone_number:
type: string
description: Your end user's phone number.
device_id:
type: string
description: Your end user's device ID. This value is case sensitive.
external_id:
type: string
example: CustomExternalID7349
description: Any ID passed from you that can uniquely identify this transaction in your system. The response simply echoes the value provided for this parameter.
originating_ip:
type: string
description: Your end user's IP address (do not send your own IP address). IPv4 and IPv6 are supported. For IPv4, the value must be in the format defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the Internet-Draft document titled [Internet Protocol](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791). For IPv6, the value must be in the format defined by the IETF in the Internet-Draft document titled [IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.2).
required:
- email_address
- account_lifecycle_event
description: ''
tags:
- Email Intelligence
security:
- Basic: []
components:
schemas:
Risk:
title: Risk
type: object
description: Contains properties related to the risk recommendation for the specified email address.
properties:
level:
type: string
example: high
description: 'The severity of the risk. '
recommendation:
type: string
example: block
enum:
- allow
- flag
- block
description: The action that Telesign recommends that you take based on the risk recommendation.
score:
type: integer
example: 959
description: A measure of transaction risk, ranging from zero to 1000, with a higher value indicating a higher risk.
postEmailIntResponse:
title: postEmailIntResponse
type: object
properties:
reference_id:
type: string
description: A 32-digit hex value used to identify the web service request. The value is unique to each web service request, is randomly-generated by Telesign, and is returned in the response message immediately following the web service request.
example: CFMJ6FTL09O22UE1KC5NBD7ZMWKTMJB8
external_id:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: The customer-generated ID for this transaction that was provided in the request. If the `external_id` parameter was not included in the request, the value here is `null`.
example: CustomExternalID7349
status:
type: object
description: 'An object containing details about the request status. '
properties:
code:
type: integer
example: 300
description: "Transaction status code. Successful transactions can be assigned one of the following values: <br/>\n\t•\t300 - successful transaction<br/>\n\t•\t301 - partially successful transaction"
description:
type: string
description: Text describing the transaction status.
example: Transaction successfully completed
updated_on:
type: string
description: An [RFC 3339](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt) timestamp indicating when the transaction status was updated.
example: '2024-10-06T21:25:03.420503Z'
email_address_details:
type: object
description: Contains cleansing and intelligence details about the submitted email address.
properties:
original:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Original'
cleansed:
type: object
description: Provides the normalized version of the email address along with the extracted username and domain components.
properties:
email_address:
type: string
description: The cleansed email address after correcting common formatting issues.
example: userr1@gmail.com
is_valid:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whether the cleansed email address is syntactically valid.
username:
type: string
description: The local-part (username) extracted from the cleansed email address
example: userr1
domain:
type: string
description: The domain portion extracted from the cleansed email address.
example: gmail.com
cleansing_details:
type: object
description: Describes modifications applied during cleansing and includes indicators such as gibberish probability and tagging.
properties:
is_modified:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whether the submitted email address was modified during cleansing.
gibberish_probability:
type: number
example: 0.29
description: A probability score indicating how likely the email username appears algorithmically generated or nonsensical.
tag:
type: string
description: A tag extracted from the email address, such as a plustag, if applicable.
example: telesign
domain_details:
type: object
description: Provides structured information about the domain associated with the email address.
properties:
general_info:
type: object
properties:
registered_domain:
type: string
description: The registered/base domain associated with the email address.
example: gmail.com
tld:
type: string
description: The toplevel domain extracted from the email address.
example: com
tld_type:
type: string
description: The classification of the toplevel domain, such as general or countrycode.
example: general
is_disposable:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whether the email domain is known to be disposable.
intelligence_details:
type: object
description: Contains properties related to the risk recommendation and supporting insights.
properties:
risk:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Risk'
insights:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RiskInsights'
RiskInsights:
title: RiskInsights
type: object
description: Contains reason code properties with additional info related to the risk recommendation.
properties:
category:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to the risk category.
items:
type: integer
example: 10031
phone_number:
type: object
description: Provides activity‑based and static reason codes related to the phone number linked to the email address.
properties:
activity:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to activity associated with the phone number linked to this email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 20003
static:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to static attributes of the phone number linked to this email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 40005
ip_address:
type: object
description: Contains activity‑based and static reason codes associated with the IP address linked to the email address.
properties:
activity:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to activity associated with the IP address linked to this email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 50005
static:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to static attributes of the IP address linked to this email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 50015
email_address:
type: object
description: Provides activity, static, and domain‑related reason codes associated directly with the email address itself.
properties:
activity:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to activity associated with the email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 60005
static:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to static attributes of the email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 60011
domain:
type: array
description: Reason codes related to domain based attributes of the email address.
items:
type: integer
example: 60101
Original:
type: object
properties:
'email_address ':
type: string
description: The email address value exactly as provided in the request.
example: u.s.e.rr1+telesign@gmail.comm!
is_valid:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whether the original email address is syntactically valid.
description: Contains the submitted email address exactly as provided and its initial validity evaluation.
errorObject:
title: errorObject
type: object
properties:
reference_id:
type:
- string
- 'null'
example: 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
description: A unique identifier assigned by Telesign for this transaction.
external_id:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: A customer-generated ID for this transaction. The response simply echoes the value provided for this parameter.
example: CustomExternalID7349
status:
type: object
description: Contains properties related to the processing status of this request.
properties:
updated_on:
type: string
description: The date-time when the processing status of this transaction was last updated.
example: '2024-02-01T00:33:34.860418Z'
code:
type: integer
description: A numeric code indicating the processing status of this transaction.
description:
type: string
description: Text explaining the meaning of the status code returned.
securitySchemes:
Basic:
type: http
description: Easiest to implement. See [Basic Authentication](/enterprise/docs/authentication#basic-authentication) for more details.
scheme: basic
Digest:
name: Authorization
type: apiKey
in: header
description: See [Digest Authentication](/enterprise/docs/authentication#basic-authentication) for more details.
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