Method: accounts.requestphoneverification

Page Summary

This page details how to request a phone verification code via the accounts.requestphoneverification method.
The request requires specifying the phone number, region code, verification method, and optionally, the language code.
Successful requests will return a verificationId to be used in subsequent verification steps.
Authorization is necessary using the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content scope.
This process is part of the Shopping Content API for managing Merchant Center accounts.

HTTP request
Path parameters
Request body
- JSON representation
Response body
- JSON representation
Authorization scopes
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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

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.

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

Fields
`verificationId`	`string` The verification ID to use in subsequent calls to `verifyphonenumber` .

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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