---
title: "Create email verification"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/email-verification"
tags: ["EmailVerification"]
---

# Create email verification

`POST /api/v2/email-verification`

If an email takes longer than 10 seconds to verify, the endpoint will return the status as `pending`. In that case, you may use the `/email-verification/:email` endpoint to check the status of the verification job.

Alternatively, you can send a `webhook_url` to receive the results instead of polling the status endpoint.


Requires one of the following scopes: `email_verifications:create`


Requires one of the following scopes: `email_verifications:create`, `email_verifications:all`, `all:create`, `all:all`

## Request body

- object — The Email Verification to create
  - `email` string, required — The email address to verify
  - `webhook_url` string — A webhook URL to receive the verification results. If the email verification takes more than 10 seconds we will send the results to this URL.

## Response `200`

The Email Verification

- EmailVerification — A single email verification
  - `status` 'success' | 'error', nullable — The request status. Do not use this field to determine the verification status. Please use `verification_status` instead to check the verification status
  - `email` string, required — The email address to verify
  - `verification_status` 'pending' | 'verified' | 'invalid', required — The verification status.
  - `catch_all` union — Whether this is a catch-all email address
    - boolean
    - string
  - `credits` number, nullable — The number of verification credits available after the verification
  - `credits_used` number, nullable — The number of verification credits used

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid request body (e.g. missing required fields, or invalid field values)
- `401` — This request is unauthorized (either the Authorization header is missing or invalid, or the API key has been revoked)
- `402` — This request cannot be fulfilled because the workspace does not have an active paid plan
- `404` — The requested resource was not found
- `429` — You have exceeded the rate limit. Please check the rate limit docs for more information.

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