EU VAT Number Validation (VIES)
Pricing
from $10.00 / 1,000 completed vat validations
Validate EU VAT numbers in real time against the European Commission's VIES: valid, invalid or source-down - with official audit receipts.
You can access the EU VAT Number Validation (VIES) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "vatNumbers": [9 "SE556042722001",10 "DE129273398",11 ] }12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("fabriken2026/eu-vat-validation").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use EU VAT Number Validation (VIES) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: