Get Started with the PhoneID API

The PhoneID API is a REST API that provides a cleansed phone number, phone type, and telecom carrier information that can be used to determine which phone numbers are a potential fraud risk, and what the best communication method for a phone number is (voice, SMS).

Reference Page

POST /phoneid/{complete_phone_number}

Full technical details for the API, including explanations of each request parameter and response property.

Contents of This Page

General Requirements
Actions
- Request Details About a Phone Number
Try It
Example
Get Started with Add-ons
Response Value Tables

General Requirements

Request Requirements

Authentication: Basic (easiest to implement) or Digest
Endpoint: https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/phoneid/{complete_phone_number}
The phone number must include the country code.
Encoding: Accepts only UTF-8 unicode characters as inputs
MIME Type: application/json
Required Headers: Content-Type

Response Details

MIME Type: application/json

NOTE:

As long as you are not including the addons object in your request payload, you can also use the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type in your request instead of application/json.

Actions

Request Details About a Phone Number

Reference Page: POST /phoneid/{complete_phone_number}

Request information about a phone number including phone type, telecom carrier, and location information.

Try It

If you have been granted access and credentials for the PhoneID API, you can try a test request in the API Explorer below. You can also get a code snippet for the request.

Click the Auth tab and for Username add your customer ID. For Password add your API key.
In the Settings tab, for the complete_phone_number field, enter the complete phone number that you want to request information about (include the country code).
Click Send.
Click the Code Generation tab and use the Language and Library menus to choose the language you want your code snippet in.

Full technical details for this action, including all available parameters for requests, can be found at POST /phoneid/{complete_phone_number}.

PhoneID API Explorer

When using this API Explorer, you will be charged your contracted rate for each transaction. The time shown is not indicative of regular transmission rates, and only applies to this API Explorer.

Send requests directly from the browser (CORS must be enabled)

Path Params

1 path param not set

complete_phone_number

$$.env

No $$.env variables are being used in this request.

Example

Request

application/json

POST https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/phoneid/15555551212 HTTP/1.1
X-TS-Auth-Method: HMAC-SHA256
Authorization: TSA 12345678-9ABC-DEF0-1234-56789ABCDEF0:n135MeEOwaWnkWVFWG0DFULtRLY=
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:51:26 GMT
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "account_lifecycle_event": "create",
  "originating_ip": "203.0.113.45"
}

Response (body only)

application/json

{
   "reference_id": "F0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE",
   "status": {
      "updated_on": "2015-10-03T14:51:28.709526Z",
      "code": 300,
      "description": "Transaction successfully completed"
   },
   "location": {
      "city": "Los Angeles",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip": "90066",
      "metro_code": "4480",
      "county": "Los Angeles County",
      "country": {
         "name": "United States",
         "iso2": "US",
         "iso3": "USA"
      },
      "coordinates": {
         "latitude": 33.99791,
         "longitude": -118.42302
      },
      "time_zone": {
         "name": "America/Los_Angeles",
         "utc_offset_min": "-8",
         "utc_offset_max": "-8"
      }
   },
   "numbering": {
      "original": {
         "complete_phone_number": "15555551234",
         "country_code": "1",
         "phone_number": "5555551234"
      },
      "cleansing": {
         "call": {
            "country_code": "1",
            "phone_number": "5555551234",
            "cleansed_code": 100,
            "min_length": 10,
            "max_length": 10
         },
         "sms": {
            "country_code": "1",
            "phone_number": "5555551234",
            "cleansed_code": 100,
            "min_length": 10,
            "max_length": 10
         }
      }
   },
   "phone_type": {
      "code": "1",
      "description": "FIXED_LINE"
   },
   "blocklisting": {
     "block_code": 0,
     "block_description": "Not blocked",
     "blocked": False
   },  
   "carrier": {
      "name": "Verizon"
   }
}

Get Started with Add-ons

Add-ons are features of the PhoneID API that allow you to get additional information about a phone number along with the base details. You can mix and match them to get detailed information about phone numbers, such as device details, porting history, subscriber contact information, and more. For complete details on what add-ons are available, see Get Started with Add-ons.

Response Value Tables

These tables explain the meaning of certain codes and other enumerated values that may be included in the response.

Country Codes and Dialing Codes
Phone Number Cleansing Codes - These codes indicate how the phone number in the request was cleansed before use.
Phone Type Codes
Time Zones

Next Steps

Check out these related pages:

POST /phoneid/{complete_phone_number} - Full technical details for the API, including explanations of each request parameter and response property.
Get Started with Add-ons - Learn which add-ons you can use with the PhoneID API and how to include them.