TempCatcher is a service which provides intelligence on temporary email addresses.

Our service is the logical next step If you have exhausted all other solutions in your battle against spam (domain white-listing / blacklisting).

Please refer to quick start guide

We aggregate our data from a variety of known spam providers.

Yes, we offer a more simple "checks" api which allows you to send an email via http(s) and check if that is in our database.

For enterprise customers also provide intelligence on phone numbers as well.

if you are interested in these services please email [email protected]

pip install tempcatcher

from tempcatcher import *
t = TempCatcher()

email, status = t.check(input("Input email you would like to check: "), dns = True)

match status:
    case 0:
        print(f"Email: `{email}` was found in the tempcatcher data. (spam)")
    case 1:
        print(f"Email: `{email}` was not found in the tempcatcher data. (not spam)")
    case 2:
        print(f"Email was formatted incorrectly.")
    case 3:
        print(f"Email: `{email}` Could not find DNS MX record assocciated with domain")
    case _:
        print(f"How did we get here?")
del t # join update thread

On windows / NT you may get a UnicodeDecodeError when trying to import tempcatcher,

the quickest solution is to add -X utf8 to your command arguments,

but here is a link to more in-depth analysis / help.