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Get E911 address

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Retrieves one physical E911 service address from your SignalWire project. Use List E911 addresses to find address IDs, or Get phone number to inspect the address currently assigned to a number.

Permissions

The API token used to authenticate must have the following scope(s) enabled to make a successful request: Numbers.

Learn more about API scopes.

Authentication

AuthorizationBasic

SignalWire Basic Authentication using Project ID and API Token.

The client sends HTTP requests with the Authorization header containing the word Basic followed by a space and a base64-encoded string of project_id:token. The project ID will be used as the username and the API token as the password.

Example:

Authorization: Basic base64(project_id:token)

Path parameters

idstringRequiredformat: "uuid"
Unique ID of the address.

Response

The request has succeeded.
idstringformat: "uuid"
The unique identifier of the Address on SignalWire.
labelstring
A friendly name given to the address to help distinguish and search for different addresses within your project.
countrystring
The ISO 3166 Alpha 2 country code.
first_namestring
First name of the occupant associated with this address.
last_namestring
Last name of the occupant associated with this address.
street_numberstring
The number portion of the street address.
street_namestring
The name portion of the street address.
address_typeenum or null

If the address is divided into multiple sub-addresses, this identifies how the address is divided.

address_numberstring or null

If the address is divided into multiple sub-addresses, this identifies the particular sub-address.

citystring
The city portion of the street address.
statestring

The state/province/region of the street address. In the USA and Canada, use the two-letter abbreviated form.

postal_codestring
The postal code of the street address.
zip_codestring

The postal code of the street address. Alias for postal_code for backwards compatibility.

emergency_enabledboolean

Whether E911 emergency calling is enabled for this address (carrier-validated when created/updated with emergency_enabled=true for a US address).

validatedboolean

Whether the address was validated by the carrier (true when the carrier returned a valid or auto-corrected match).

validated_atstring or null

The RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 timestamp of the last successful carrier validation, or null if never validated.

Errors

401
Unauthorized Error
404
Not Found Error
422
Unprocessable Entity Error
500
Internal Server Error