# `bird lookup email`

## Usage

```bash
bird lookup email [flags]
```

## Description

Create an email address lookup

Create a deliverability lookup for one email address. Returns `result`, `delivery_confidence`, address `flags`, an undeliverable `reason`, and `did_you_mean` when a correction is available. Treat unknown `result` and `reason` values as valid additions and use `delivery_confidence` as the fallback; each completed lookup incurs the same charge.

Build the request from flags, a JSON EmailLookupRequest body via --body-file ("-" reads
stdin), or both — a flag overrides the matching body field. Run --example to
print a ready-to-edit body, or --dry-run to print the resolved request without
sending it.

## Examples

```bash
# print the body shape (no credentials needed)
bird lookup email --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "email": "aisha.khan@example.com"
}
```

## Options

#### Request

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--body-file`       | Read the JSON request body from this file; "-" reads stdin   |
| `--example`         | Print a complete example request body, then exit             |
| `--dry-run`         | Print the resolved request without sending it, then exit     |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |

#### Options

| Name                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--email`           | The email address to look up. Send it exactly as you hold it. The part before the @ is case-sensitive, so the API does not lowercase it. A display-name form such as Aisha <aisha@example.com> is rejected rather than unwrapped. |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit                                                                                                                                                                                     |

## Related

| Name                                                                  | Description                  |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| [`bird lookup phone-number`](/docs/cli/reference/lookup-phone-number) | Create a phone number lookup |