Bulk Verification

With the TrueMail API, you can verify contact lists you already have without needing to upload them to the dashboard.

Verify list of emails

POST https://app.truemail.io/api/v1/tasks/bulk?access_token={api_key}

This endpoint enables you to create a new task and begin bulk verify.

Query Parameters

NameTypeDescription

access_token

string

Application api token.

Request Body

NameTypeDescription

filename

string

File name.

file

object

File must contain property 'data' as array of objects which must consist of email and other properties.

{
  "status": "Success",
  "task_id": 199
}

Get bulk verify status

GET https://app.truemail.io/api/v1/tasks/{task_id}/status?access_token={api_key}

This endpoint allows you to create new task and start bulk verify.

Path Parameters

NameTypeDescription

task_id

number

Task id received from verify list of emails.

Query Parameters

NameTypeDescription

access_token

string

Application api token.

{
  "status": "finished",
  "total": 9,
  "billable": 2,
  "valid": 1,
  "invalid": 1,
  "catchall": 0,
  "disposable": 0,
  "unknown": 0,
  "duplicates": 7
}

Download bulk verify result

GET https://app.truemail.io/api/v1/tasks/{task_id}/download?access_token={api_key}

This is how you can download your file. You'll receive the data back in a CSV format with the last column including the result codes.

Path Parameters

NameTypeDescription

task_id

number

Task id received from verify list of emails.

Query Parameters

NameTypeDescription

access_token

string

Application api token.

unknowns

number

Include results with status 'unknown'.

disposables

number

Include results with status 'disposable'.

catchalls

number

Include results with status 'catchall'.

invalids

number

Include results with status 'invalid'.

valids

number

Include results with status 'valid'.

"support@truemail.com","Jonh Doe",valid
"support123@truemail.com","Jonh Doe",invalid

Read more about the result statuses here.

Job Status

Job status indicates what step the job is currently in. This will be the primary property you'll want to check to determine what can be done with the job.

Status

Description

Not processed

The job has not yet run and is waiting to be started.

Processing

The job is currently either running a sample or full verification.

Finished

The job has completed verification and the results are ready for download.

Failed

The job failed, typically this is due to poorly formatted data.

Totals

There are several items in the total object that give you an overview of verification results. These numbers are updated periodically during the verification process. Most of these properties correspond directly with the verification result codes; the other properties are explained below.

Property

Description

records

The number of rows we found in your file. This may include whitespace, empty rows, and other rows that don't contain syntactically correct emails.

billable

The number of rows we found syntactically correct emails in. This is number of credits processing this job will consume.

processed

The total number of emails that have been processed so far.

duplicates

The number of rows that contain duplicated emails. This is not the number of unique duplicates but the total of every instance.

bad_syntax

The number of records that do not contain data that looks like an email. This may include whitespace and empty rows as well as bad data.

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