Bulk Email Address validation with CSV File

Validation in a nutshell

An email address can look right but still be wrong. Real email uses in depths address validation to check if emails really exist without sending any messages.

Bulk Email address validation using csv file

From the Real Email dashboard you can upload a csv file to interactively validate any email address in it. This can be used to filter email group lists or mail out lists.

Many programs allow for importing and exporting csv files, including form spreadsheets and email sending platforms like MailChimp and SendInBlue. For more control you may like to process the files using the api and shell scripts.

Bulk file validation using api and shell scripts

If you would like more control you can validate a csv file using your Real Email api key and the bellow bash shell script. First login to http://isitarealemail.com and get your API key and place it into the Authorization header.

Given an example file like emails-input.csv

emails-input.csv
[email protected]
[email protected]

If you run that through the bellow script.

#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
    echo $line, `curl "https://isitarealemail.com/api/email/validate?email=$line" -H 'Authorization: bearer xxx' | jq .status`;
done < emails-input.csv > emails-output.csv

Then It will give you the output file that looks like this.

emails-output.csv
[email protected],valid
[email protected],invalid