Telnyx Phone Number Porting API

Determining portability of phone numbers

Business capability
Number Portability Management BC-2640.40

Operations 1

POST /portability_checks Run a portability check #

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OpenAPI Specification

telnyx-phone-number-porting-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Telnyx Phone Number Porting API
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    email: support@telnyx.com
  x-endpoint-cost: light
  x-refined-note:
  - x-latency-category differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  description: 'Operations tagged Phone Number Porting across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: telnyx-openapi.yml, telnyx-openapi.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- description: Version 2.0.0 of the Telnyx API
  url: https://api.telnyx.com/v2
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- description: Determining portability of phone numbers
  name: Phone Number Porting
paths:
  /portability_checks:
    post:
      description: Runs a portability check, returning the results immediately.
      operationId: PostPortabilityCheck
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              properties:
                phone_numbers:
                  description: The list of +E.164 formatted phone numbers to check for portability
                  example:
                  - '+13035550000'
                  - '+13035550001'
                  - '+13035550002'
                  items:
                    type: string
                  type: array
              type: object
        required: true
      responses:
        '201':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PortabilityCheckResponse'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '422':
          description: Unprocessable entity. Check message field in response for details.
      summary: Run a portability check
      tags:
      - Phone Number Porting
      x-latency-category: responsive
    servers:
    - description: Version 2.0.0 of the Telnyx API
      url: https://api.telnyx.com/v2
components:
  schemas:
    PortabilityCheckDetails:
      properties:
        fast_portable:
          description: Indicates whether this phone number is FastPort eligible
          example: true
          readOnly: true
          type: boolean
        not_portable_reason:
          description: If this phone number is not portable, explains why. Empty string if the number is portable.
          example: No coverage
          readOnly: true
          type: string
        phone_number:
          description: The +E.164 formatted phone number this result is about
          example: '+13125550123'
          readOnly: true
          type: string
        portable:
          description: Indicates whether this phone number is portable
          example: true
          readOnly: true
          type: boolean
        record_type:
          description: Identifies the type of the resource.
          example: portability_check_result
          readOnly: true
          type: string
      type: object
  responses:
    PortabilityCheckResponse:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            properties:
              data:
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/PortabilityCheckDetails'
                type: array
            type: object
      description: PortabilityCheck Response
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    branded-calling_bearerAuth:
      description: API key passed as a Bearer token in the Authorization header
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    oauthClientAuth:
      description: OAuth 2.0 authentication for Telnyx API and MCP integrations
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://api.telnyx.com/v2/oauth/authorize
          refreshUrl: https://api.telnyx.com/v2/oauth/token
          scopes:
            admin: Administrative access to Telnyx resources
          tokenUrl: https://api.telnyx.com/v2/oauth/token
        clientCredentials:
          scopes:
            admin: Administrative access to Telnyx resources
          tokenUrl: https://api.telnyx.com/v2/oauth/token
      type: oauth2
    outbound-voice-profiles_bearerAuth:
      bearerFormat: JWT
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    pronunciation-dicts_bearerAuth:
      description: Telnyx API v2 key. Obtain from https://portal.telnyx.com
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    stored-payment-transactions_bearerAuth:
      bearerFormat: JWT
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key
      description: 'Telnyx API key supplied as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. In production, auth may be validated by the API gateway and forwarded via Telnyx auth headers.'
    Payment:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'Machine Payment Protocol credential used on paid retries, sent as `Authorization: Payment ...`. Obtained by paying a challenge returned in the `WWW-Authenticate` header of a 402 response. This is not a Telnyx API key; initial challenge requests use standard bearer authentication instead.'
    agent-memory_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Telnyx API key
    collections_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Telnyx API key. Collections and results are automatically scoped to the authenticated user's organization.
    number-reputation_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Telnyx API key. Generate one at https://portal.telnyx.com/#/app/api-keys.
    rcs-registration_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key
    transcriptions-search_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Telnyx API key. Results are automatically scoped to the authenticated user's organization.
    web-search_bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Telnyx API key
x-refined-from:
- telnyx-openapi.yml
- telnyx-openapi.json