Provision a number

Method

POST

Path

phone_numbers

Provision a phone number that you can use to receive faxes in your Phaxio account.

Request Parameters

Name Type Description
country_code integer The country code (E.164) of the number you'd like to provision.
area_code integer The area code of the number you'd like to provision.
callback_url URL A callback URL that we'll post to when a fax is received by this number. This will override the global receive callback URL, if you have one specified.

Response

A JSON object with success, message, and data attributes. The data attribute holds a Phone Number Object for the number just provisioned.

Sample Call

curl https://api.phaxio.com/v2/phone_numbers \
    -u 'API_KEY:API_SECRET' \
    -F 'country_code=1' \
    -F 'area_code=847'

Sample Response

{
    "success":true,
    "message":"Number provisioned successfully!",
    "data":{
        "phone_number":"+18475551234",
        "city":"Northbrook",
        "state":"Illinois",
        "country":"United States",
        "cost":200,
        "last_billed_at":"2016-06-16T15:45:32.000-06:00",
        "provisioned_at":"2016-06-16T15:45:32.000-06:00",
        "callback_url":null
    }
}