EAN-13 barcode validation API

One GET, one JSON body, no registry fee and no rate limit: the GS1 retail product barcode (worldwide) verified against its own check digits - mod-10 with alternating weights 1 and 3.

Request

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://autorev.rohnelt.dev/v1/identity/validate?type=ean13&value=4006381333931"

Response

{
  "type": "ean13",
  "valid": true,
  "formatted": "4006381333931",
  "details": { ... }
}

valid is a boolean you can branch on at the form boundary; formatted is the canonical rendering to store, so your database stops holding six spellings of the same number.

Try the response without a key

Result appears here.

Important limitation, stated plainly

A checksum proves the number is well-formed. It does not prove the number was ever issued, nor that it belongs to the person presenting it. Any vendor claiming otherwise from a checksum alone is overselling. Use this to reject the ~90% of bad input that is simply mistyped, then use an official registry for the rest.