Data Masking API

About the Data Masking API

Data Masking works by scanning text for sensitive data patterns and replacing them with masked placeholders. Returns both the masked text and detection statistics for multiple data types.

What people use it for

GDPR Compliance

Automatically mask PII in logs, documents, and communications to comply with GDPR and privacy regulations

Data Anonymization

Anonymize sensitive customer data in datasets before sharing with third parties or using for testing

Log Sanitization

Remove sensitive information from application logs and error messages before storing or analyzing

Content Moderation

Mask sensitive data in user-generated content, support tickets, or public forums to protect privacy

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON

Default REST response

XML

Markup format

YAML

Human-readable

CSV

Tabular export

Beta

GraphQL

Query language

New

MCP

For AI agents

Request parameters — POST /v1/datamasking

Sent as JSON in the request body. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Required

Optional

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curl -X POST "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/datamasking" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"Contact John Doe at [email protected] or call 555-123-4567. His SSN is 123-45-6789.","types":"value"}'

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Response — POST /v1/datamasking

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "masked": "Contact John Doe at [EMAIL] or call [PHONE]. His SSN is [SSN].",
    "detected": {
      "email": 1,
      "phone": 1,
      "ssn": 1,
      "credit_card": 0,
      "ip_address": 0,
      "url": 0,
      "date": 0
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

What a call costs — 10 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend

Drop an interactive Data Masking form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.

Changelog — Data Masking API

Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.

Currently v1