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MailChecker

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Cargo version Crates.io

NPM version npm

Gem version Gem

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Cross-language email validation. Backed by a database of over 55 000 throwable email domains.

This will be very helpful when you have to contact your users and you want to avoid errors causing lack of communication or want to block "spamboxes".


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Upgrade

From 3.x to 4.x

  • PHP
# import using the fully qualified name.
use Fgribreau\MailChecker;

// ...
echo MailChecker::isValid('[email protected]');

From 1.x to 3.x

Mailchecker public API has been normalized, here are the changes:

  • NodeJS/JavaScript: MailChecker(email) -> MailChecker.isValid(email)
  • PHP: MailChecker($email) -> MailChecker::isValid($email)
  • Python
import MailChecker
m = MailChecker.MailChecker()
if not m.is_valid('[email protected]'):
  # ...

became:

import MailChecker
if not MailChecker.is_valid('[email protected]'):
  # ...

MailChecker currently supports:


Usage

NodeJS

var MailChecker = require('mailchecker');

if(!MailChecker.isValid('[email protected]')){
  console.error('O RLY !');
  process.exit(1);
}

if(!MailChecker.isValid('myemail.com')){
  console.error('O RLY !');
  process.exit(1);
}

JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript" src="MailChecker/platform/javascript/MailChecker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(!MailChecker.isValid('[email protected]')){
  console.error('O RLY !');
}

if(!MailChecker.isValid('myemail.com')){
  console.error('O RLY !');
}
</script>

PHP

use Fgribreau\MailChecker;

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

if(!MailChecker::isValid('[email protected]')){
  die('O RLY !');
}

if(!MailChecker::isValid('myemail.com')){
  die('O RLY !');
}

Python

pip install mailchecker
# no package yet; just drop in MailChecker.py where you want to use it.
from MailChecker import MailChecker

if not MailChecker.is_valid('[email protected]'):
    print "O RLY !"

Django validator: https://github.com/jonashaag/django-indisposable

Ruby

require 'mail_checker'

unless MailChecker.valid?('[email protected]')
  fail('O RLY!')
end

Rust

 extern crate mailchecker;

assert_eq!(true, mailchecker::is_valid("[email protected]"));
assert_eq!(false, mailchecker::is_valid("\n[email protected]\n"));
assert_eq!(false, mailchecker::is_valid("[email protected]"));

Elixir

Code.require_file("mail_checker.ex", "mailchecker/platform/elixir/")

unless MailChecker.valid?("[email protected]") do
  raise "O RLY !"
end

unless MailChecker.valid?("myemail.com") do
  raise "O RLY !"
end

Clojure

; no package yet; just drop in mailchecker.clj where you want to use it.
(load-file "platform/clojure/mailchecker.clj")

(if (not (mailchecker/valid? "[email protected]"))
  (throw (Throwable. "O RLY!")))

(if (not (mailchecker/valid? "myemail.com"))
  (throw (Throwable. "O RLY!")))

Go

package main

import (
  "log"
  
  "github.com/FGRibreau/mailchecker/platform/go"
)

if !mail_checker.IsValid('myemail@yopmail.com') {
  log.Fatal('O RLY !');
}

if !mail_checker.IsValid('myemail.com') {
  log.Fatal("O RLY !")
}

Installation

Go

go get https://github.com/FGRibreau/mailchecker

NodeJS/JavaScript

npm install mailchecker

Ruby

gem install ruby-mailchecker

PHP

composer require fgribreau/mailchecker

We accept pull-requests for other package manager.

Data sources

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    return this.innerText;
  }).toArray();

BloggingWV

  Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('.entry > ul > li a')).map(function(el){return el.innerText});

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Just run (requires NodeJS):

npm run build

Development

Development environment requires docker.

# install and setup every language dependencies in parallel through docker
npm install

# run every language setup in parallel through docker
npm run setup

# run every language tests in parallel through docker
npm test

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