emailvalidation/index.js

A module for validating emails using the emailvalidation.co API.

var http = require('http');

var validator = function(pubKey) {
    this.pubKey = pubKey;
  }

validator.prototype.sendBack = function(err, msg, fn) {
  if (fn) {
    fn.call(this, err, msg);
  }
  else {
    console.log(err ? err : msg);
  }
}

validator.prototype.validate = function(email, vericationlevel, fn) {

  // There should be a public key
  if (!this.pubKey) {
    this.sendBack('Provide your public key.', null, fn);
    return;
  }

  // There should be an email
  if (!email) {
    this.sendBack('Provide the email to validate.', null, fn);
    return;
  }

  var self = this;
  var options = {
    hostname: 'api.emailvalidator.co',
    path: '/?AccessKey='+this.pubKey+'&EmailAddress='+email+'&VerificationLevel='+vericationlevel,
    method: 'GET'
  };

  var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
    //console.log("statusCode: ", res.statusCode);

    var result = "";
    var status = res.statusCode;
    res.setEncoding('utf8');

    res.on('data', function(chunk) {
      result += chunk;
    });

    res.on('end', function(body) {
      if (status != 200) {
        self.sendBack('Unexpected response code '+status, null, fn);
      }
      else {
        var json = JSON.parse(result);
        if (json.message)
          self.sendBack(json.message, null, fn);
        else
          self.sendBack(null, json, fn);
      }
    });
  });
  req.end();
  req.on('error', function(e) {
    //console.error(e);
    self.sendBack(e, null, fn);
  });
}

module.exports = validator;