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Method: accounts.requestphoneverification
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Request verification code to start phone verification.
HTTP request
POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/accounts/{accountId}/requestphoneverification
Path parameters
| Parameters |
merchantId |
string (int64 format)
Required. The ID of the managing account. If this parameter is not the same as accountId, then this account must be a multi-client account and accountId must be the ID of a sub-account of this account.
|
accountId |
string (int64 format)
Required. The ID of the account.
|
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
{
"phoneRegionCode": string,
"phoneNumber": string,
"phoneVerificationMethod": enum (PhoneVerificationMethod),
"languageCode": string
} |
| Fields |
phoneRegionCode |
string
Required. Two letter country code for the phone number, for example CA for Canadian numbers. See the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 officially assigned codes.
|
phoneNumber |
string
Phone number to be verified.
|
phoneVerificationMethod |
enum (PhoneVerificationMethod)
Verification method to receive verification code.
|
languageCode |
string
Language code IETF BCP 47 syntax (for example, en-US). Language code is used to provide localized SMS and PHONE_CALL. Default language used is en-US if not provided.
|
Response body
Response message for the accounts.requestphoneverification method.
If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
{
"verificationId": string
} |
| Fields |
verificationId |
string
The verification ID to use in subsequent calls to verifyphonenumber.
|
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
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Last updated 2025-02-25 UTC.
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