There are a couple ways to integrate this API, here are a few to get you started:

Do it yourself

To view the API's Swagger specification in JSON format, go to API specification and click the View specification link in the related resources section to the right of the page.

Use Swagger Codegen to quickly generate client integration code in the language you are using, such as C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby.

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Swagger Codegen is available to download on GitHub, along with a README.

The tool is also available as a web-based version.

As an alternative to Codegen, you can use the Swagger Editor to generate client integration code: upload the Swagger specification and select your programming language of choice from the Generate Client dropdown.

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Experian Address Validation JavaScript sample code is hosted on our GitHub repository. The sample code is open sourced and includes information on how to get up and running quickly and how to modify and contribute to the code.

Get sample code

You can try our different search types using our sample code examples.

You can quickly test out the requests and responses and see how the API behaves with our pre-configured Postman collections. Simply import the relevant collections, add your token as a variable and start making requests with your desired parameters.

Get Postman collections

Let us help you

Our Integration Wizard is a tool that allows you to quicky integrate Experian's real-time address, phone, and email validation into your site in a few steps.

If you already have a Self Service Portal account, you can access Integration Wizard directly. Click Get started to begin. Alternatively, log into the Self Service Portal, click Products on the left, open the Tools tab and then click Start the Integration Wizard.

Read our Integration Wizard guide on how to use this tool.

If you've purchased Professional Services support along with your license, contact us for assistance. Our consultants can talk you through best-practice for making calls, understand results and pseudocode for integration.

Use a CRM

Experian provides contact data quality solutions that directly integrate with your MS Dynamics 365 CE (CRM) environment, giving you an easy way to protect the accuracy of your data at entry. Our accredited solutions for MS Dynamics CRM facilitate real-time capture and validation of address, email, and phone data whenever contact data is entered or edited in the system.

Experian Data Quality for Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud delivers real-time contact data validation during the data collection process. It formats, standardises, and validates addresses, email addresses and phone numbers in real-time when a contact record is created or updated within your CRM.

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