NameAPI is a web API
to handle people's names
in your software.

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25.09.2024

Romanian Names Added

The Romanian language, a Romance language derived from Latin, is unique in Eastern Europe,...


11.09.2024

Software Version 10.4.0 Deployed

The latest update includes several improvements:

 

Expanded Database of Names: new names...


10.09.2024

Database Expansion: Malay Names

Malay names, part of the Austronesian language family and typically written using the Latin-based...


28.08.2024

Exploring Estonian Names

Did you know that in the Estonian language, there is no distinction between "he" and "she", as the...


09.08.2024

Finnish Names in Focus

Finnish, a Finno-Ugric language with a Latin-based alphabet including ä and ö, has three dialect...


   

Risk Detector


       
Detects various types of possibly fake data in person records. It performs checks on the person's name, email address, telephone number and address.
See also the Swagger specification.
                    
POST
       
application/json (you must set the content-type as http header)
       
We have integrated Swagger directly into our API.
Visit https://api.nameapi.org/rest/swagger-ui/.

   

Input

               
See Context.
   
{
  "context": {},
  "inputPerson": {
    "type" : "NaturalInputPerson",
    "emailAddresses": [
      {
        "type" : "EmailAddressImpl",
        "emailAddress": "[email protected]"
      }
    ],
    "correspondenceLanguage": "en",
    "addresses": [
      {
        "type" : "UseForAllAddressRelation",
        "address": {
           "type" : "StructuredAddress",
          "placeInfo": {
            "type" : "StructuredPlaceInfo",
            "locality": "Atlantis",
            "postalCode": "55555"
          },
          "streetInfo": {
            "type" : "StructuredStreetInfo",
            "streetName": "Hill road",
            "houseNumber": "72"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "telNumbers": [
      {
        "type" : "SimpleTelNumber",
        "fullNumber": "999 999 999"
      }
    ],
     "personName" : {
      "nameFields" : [ {
        "string" : "John",
        "fieldType" : "GIVENNAME"
      }, {
        "string" : "Doe",
        "fieldType" : "SURNAME"
      } ]
    }
  }
}
      
   

   

Output

        
An overall score considering all the detected risks and all the positive attributes of the record. Range [-1,1].
  • Range [-1,0) means no risks were detected and the record looks good.
  • 0 means no risks were detected, but also no positive attributes were found, the service can't tell for sure.
  • Range (0,1] means one or multiple risks were detected.
       
A list of all the detected risks. Sorted by severity having the worst come first.
See RiskDetectorResult.
   
{
  "score" : 1.0,
  "risks" : [ {
    "dataItem" : "EMAIL",
    "riskScore" : 1.0,
    "reason" : "Domain of email address '[email protected]' has a risk to be a placeholder.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "OTHER" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "EMAIL",
    "riskScore" : 1.0,
    "reason" : "Domain of email address '[email protected]' has a risk to contain placeholder.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "PLACEHOLDER" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "NAME",
    "riskScore" : 0.97,
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "PLACEHOLDER" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "TEL",
    "riskScore" : 0.7,
    "reason" : "Tel number '999 999 999' contains repeating patterns.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "OTHER" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "ADDRESS",
    "riskScore" : 0.6,
    "reason" : "Atlantis",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "FICTIONAL" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "TEL",
    "riskScore" : 0.5,
    "reason" : "Tel number '999 999 999' is invalid.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "INVALID" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "TEL",
    "riskScore" : 0.5,
    "reason" : "Tel number '999 999 999' contains risky equal digit sequences.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "OTHER" ]
  }, {
    "dataItem" : "ADDRESS",
    "riskScore" : 0.4,
    "reason" : "Postal code '55555' looks like a random typing.",
    "riskType" : [ "FakeRiskType", "RANDOM_TYPING" ]
  } ]
}