Clerk Phone Numbers API
A user can be associated with one or more phone numbers, which allows them to be contacted via SMS.
Clerk Phone Numbers API is one of 104 APIs that Clerk publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Phone Numbers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 11 operations across 6 paths, and defines 49 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.clerk.com/v1, https://{domain}.clerk.accounts.dev.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 6
Clerk Phone Numbers API declares
6 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (sk_bearerAuth).
An API key is passed in the cookie as __client (ProductionBrowser).
An API key is passed in the query as __dev_session (DevBrowser).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (ProductionNativeApp).
An API key is passed in the query as _is_native (ProductionNativeFlag).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (ClientCredentials).
bearerAuth— Secret key, obtained under "API Keys" in the Clerk Dashboard.ProductionBrowser— The Client API token sent in the form of a browser cookie. Used to authenticate production browser applications.DevBrowser— A Dev Browser API token sent as a query parameter. Used to authenticate only dev instances. To generate a dev instance API token you must first make a request…ProductionNativeApp— The Client API token sent in the Authorization header. Used to authenticate native applications.ProductionNativeFlag— If sent and the value is true, it instructs the server to parse the API token from the Authorization header. It should always be set to true when using the Aut…ClientCredentials— HTTP Basic Authentication using Client ID as username and Client Secret as password.
Paths & Operations 11
Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 2 DELETE, 3 GET, 2 PATCH, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
A user can be associated with one or more phone numbers, which allows them to be contacted via SMS.
Schemas 49
The contract defines 49 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Client.User (42 properties), Client.SignUp (23 properties), ExternalAccountWithVerification (19 properties), Client.Organization (14 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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