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Getting Started

About the Credit Usage API

You can use the Credit Usage API to access your account's total number of available credits and current usage for this billing period. This data can help you track your usage patterns and make informed decisions about credit usage.

API Request URLs

JSON

XML

Example Response

This is an example success response in JSON format. Responses are also available in XML format.

{
	"success":true,
	"message":"Success",
	"credits":3004522,
	"usage":478,
	"proxy_usage":6,
	"email_usage":472,
	"mobile_sdk_usage": 22,
	"phone_usage": 1231,
	"url_usage": 211,
	"fingerprint_usage":0,
	"request_id":"3ift1XN"
}

EXAMPLE CODE

PHP
PYTHON

// You API Key.
$key = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';

// Base URL
$url = 'https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json/account/%s';
	

// Finish assembling the URL and make the request.
$json = file_get_contents(sprintf($url, $key));

// Decode json and print the number of available credits.
$result = json_decode($json, true);
if(isset($result['success']) && $result['success'] === true){
	echo "Available credits: ".$result['credits'];
} else {
	echo $result['message'];	
}

import json
import requests

# You may need to install Requests pip
# python -m pip install requests

class IPQS:
    key = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
    def usage_api(self)->dict:
        url = 'https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json/account/%s' % (self.key)
        x = requests.get(url)

        return (json.loads(x.text))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    result = (IPQS()).usage_api()
    if 'success' in result and result['success'] == True:
        print('Available credits: %s' %(result['credits']))
    else:
        print(result['message'])

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