email-validator

Go library to verify email addresses through Email verification API provided by 3rd party services - abstractapi.com and hunter.io.

Features

• Completely native (no 3rd party module dependencies)
• Client side rate limiting
• Ability to change rate limits

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How to use http clients

abstract.com client

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"

    emailvalidator "github.com/r-goswami/email-validator"
)

func main() {
    apiKey :=  os.GetEnv("API_KEY")
    validator, err := emailvalidator.NewAbstractAPIClient(apiKey)
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }

    email := "abc@xyz.com"
    resp, err := validator.Validate(email)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }

    if resp.IsValid() {
        fmt.Printf("\n%s is a valid email\n", email)
    }
}

hunter.io client

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"

    emailvalidator "github.com/r-goswami/email-validator"
)

func main() {
    apiKey :=  os.GetEnv("API_KEY")
    validator, err := emailvalidator.NewHunterAPIClient(apiKey)
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }

    email := "abc@xyz.com"
    resp, err := validator.Validate(email)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }

    if resp.IsValid() {
        fmt.Printf("\n%s is a valid email\n", email)
    }
}

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How to check clients using commands

abstract.com client

Build

cd cmd/aapi_validate
go build

Run

cd cmd/aapi_validate
./aapi_validate validate -apiKey API_KEY -email EMAIL

hunter.io client

Build

cd cmd/hunter_validate
go build

Run

cd cmd/hunter_validate
./hunter_validate validate -apiKey API_KEY -email EMAIL