API Reference

Send verification code

POST https://ev.apis.paypi.dev/sendCode

This request send's a code to the given email address, which should be returned to check it is correct.

All emails are sent from [e-mail]

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization*	string	PayPI subscriber secret in Bearer <token> format

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
email*	string	The email address to send the verification code to

200: OK Success - Email sent

{
    success: true,
    message: "Verification email sent"
}

400: Bad Request Invalid or incorrectly formatted email given

{
    success: false,
    message:
      "Unable to send email - please check the email address and try again"
}

401: Unauthorized Invalid API Key

{
    success: false,
    message: "Authorization header value invalid"
}

Check verification code

POST https://ev.apis.paypi.dev/checkCode

Checks the user's emailed code is valid.

If this returns success=true, you can safely assume the user you are interacting with is the owner of that email address.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization*	string	PayPI subscriber secret in Bearer <token> format

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
email*	string	The email address to check the code against
code*	string	The 6 digit code given by the user.

200: OK Success - Code Correct

{
      success: true,
      message: "email successfully verified"
}

401: Unauthorized Invalid API Key

{
    success: false,
    message: "Authorization header value invalid",
}

200: OK Unable to verify email - Code incorrect

{
    success: false,
    message: "Given code is not valid"
}

403: Forbidden Tries Exceeded

To prevent abuse and brute forcing, we limit the number of checkCode requests for each email address to 20.

This means if more than 20 requests are made you will have to send another code to your user, this will reset the limit.

{
    success: false,
    message: "Number of tries exceeded, please request a new code"
}

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