Telesign Phone Intelligence API

Phone number lookup and intelligence operations

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POST /phoneid/{complete_phone_number} Look Up Phone ID #

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OpenAPI Specification

telesign-phone-intelligence-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Telesign PhoneID Fraud Scoring Phone Intelligence API
  description: The Telesign PhoneID API provides global phone number intelligence, enabling businesses to verify and enrich phone number data for fraud prevention and risk assessment. Submit any phone number to receive carrier information, location data, phone type, and subscriber intelligence.
  version: '2'
  contact:
    name: Telesign Developer Support
    url: https://developer.telesign.com/enterprise
  termsOfService: https://www.telesign.com/terms-conditions/
servers:
- url: https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1
  description: Telesign REST API
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Phone Intelligence
  description: Phone number lookup and intelligence operations
paths:
  /phoneid/{complete_phone_number}:
    post:
      operationId: lookupPhoneId
      summary: Look Up Phone ID
      description: Submit a phone number to receive detailed intelligence including carrier information, geographic location, phone type classification, and subscriber data. Used for fraud prevention and risk scoring.
      tags:
      - Phone Intelligence
      parameters:
      - name: complete_phone_number
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The complete phone number including country code, with no spaces or special characters.
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                account_lifecycle_event:
                  type: string
                  description: Account lifecycle stage when this lookup is performed.
                  enum:
                  - create
                  - sign-in
                  - transact
                  - update
                  - delete
                originating_ip:
                  type: string
                  description: End user's IP address for additional fraud signals.
                addons:
                  type: string
                  description: Enable contact add-on to receive additional subscriber data.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Phone ID lookup successful
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneIdResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request - invalid phone number or parameters
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized - invalid credentials
        '402':
          description: Payment required - insufficient credits
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded
        '500':
          description: Invalid transaction
components:
  schemas:
    LocationInfo:
      type: object
      properties:
        city:
          type: string
        county:
          type: string
        state:
          type: string
        zip:
          type: string
        country:
          type: object
          properties:
            iso2:
              type: string
            iso3:
              type: string
            name:
              type: string
        time_zone:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
            utc_offset_min:
              type: string
            utc_offset_max:
              type: string
        coordinates:
          type: object
          properties:
            latitude:
              type: string
            longitude:
              type: string
    NumberingInfo:
      type: object
      properties:
        original:
          type: object
          properties:
            phone_number:
              type: string
            complete_phone_number:
              type: string
            country_code:
              type: string
        cleansing:
          type: object
          properties:
            call:
              type: object
              properties:
                cleansed_code:
                  type: string
                country_code:
                  type: string
                phone_number:
                  type: string
            sms:
              type: object
              properties:
                cleansed_code:
                  type: string
                country_code:
                  type: string
                phone_number:
                  type: string
    TransactionStatus:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        updated_on:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    PhoneType:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Phone type code (mobile, landline, VOIP, etc.)
        description:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable phone type description.
    PhoneIdResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        reference_id:
          type: string
          description: Unique 32-digit hex identifier for this transaction.
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TransactionStatus'
        phone_type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneType'
        numbering:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/NumberingInfo'
        location:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationInfo'
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Basic authentication using Customer ID as username and API key as password.