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Instantly integrate address, name, email, and phone validation into your apps to prevent fraud, reduce lost shipments, and minimize returned mail.
Melissa’s scalable APIs deliver clean, reliable data for analytics, BI, and e-commerce; plus flexible endpoints for batch or single-record processing. Power up your next project with developer-friendly docs, affordable pricing, and the freedom to combine multiple APIs for custom solutions.
Get started in just 3 simple steps
Step 1 - Get License Key with Credits
Sign In or Create An Account to get License Key with Credits to use our APIs.
Click Here for more License Key Information.
Step 2 - Choose the optimal API for your needs
Explore our extensive catalog of APIs for address validation, data enrichment, and more.
Step 3 - Make your first API call
Try out this cURL command to test the API, replace with your License Key.
curl -X GET "https://address.melissadata.net/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress?&format=JSON&opt=USPreferredCityNames:ON,OutputGeo:ON&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa&admarea=CA&ctry=US&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita&postal=92688\
&id={{licenseKey}}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"Location Based Services
Global Address Verification
Verify and standardize U.S. and international addresses in over 200 countries and 46 territories with Postal Authority certified coding and premise level Geocoding.
Global IP
Utilize 20+ unique dynamic techniques to return a geolocation of an input IP address with latitude and longitude, proxy info, city, region, and country.
Property
Return comprehensive property and mortgage info for over 140 million U.S. properties based on supplied Assessor Parcel Number or input address.
Reverse GeoCoder
Return a set of complete addresses in a radius from an input latitude and longitude coordinates, or pass in a list of locations and get the nearest location to your input coordinates.
SmartMover US
Validate and standardize addresses, detect moves, and provide an updated address for an individual or business using data from the USPS.
Business & Identification Services
Personator Consumer
USPS CASS/DPV certified address checking, name parsing and genderizing, phone and email verification are easily performed with API.
Global Email
Verify email mailboxes, syntax, and domains in real-time to confirm they are deliverable. Takes an input email address and returns a status of deliverability to the box level, as well as returns domain information.
US Business Coder
Return detailed firmographic data on 25+ million U.S. companies including contact title, address, phone and email by supplying an input Business name, Stock Ticker or Business Address.
Global Name
Verify, standardize and parse person and business names while identifying suspicious or vulgar names by sending in a full name. Now input a country name for culture-appropriate parsing!
Global Phone
Verify phone as active, output Caller ID info, as well identifies line type, and returns geographic details, dominant language and carrier for over 200 countries. Now includes Caller ID information!