#1 2017-06-02 3:56 pm

kszys

Member

Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 1

Missing results in search?

We are using the API, and it works well. However, when we report results to some people, they try to manually verify them using the search on the page, and the results are not the same. Example - for the e-mail:

ahmed100@honor-8.com

there are 0 results in search, but the following request provides results:

http://api.stopforumspam.org/api?email=ahmed100@honor-8.com

Any ideas?

kpatz

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 1,437

Re: Missing results in search?

Known toxic IP blocks and email domains will show as a "hit" in the API (with a frequency of 255) even if the exact email or IP is not in the database.  In this case it's the honor-8.com that triggers the API... any email address at that domain will.

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Alex Kemp

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From: Nottingham, England

Registered: 2009-12-02

Posts: 2,423

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Re: Missing results in search?

To expand on what kpatz has already said, so that others can investigate for themselves...

The result to look for is:–

• frequency=255

If that does occur, then you are dealing with a toxic domain.

Here is the result using your example:–

~$ wget http://api.stopforumspam.org/api?email=ahmed100@honor-8.com
...
Saving to: ‘api?email=ahmed100@honor-8.com’

~$ cat "api?email=ahmed100@honor-8.com"
<response success="true">
	<type>email</type>
	<appears>yes</appears>
	<lastseen>2017-06-02 20:31:41</lastseen>
	<frequency>255</frequency>

(the result contains “frequency=255” + “lastseen=time-of-query” so yes, this is a toxic domain)

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