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POST/api/v1/dlp/scan

Run a DLP scan on text

Scans a text string for sensitive content (PII/PHI/PCI/secrets) using the checksum-validated, encoding-aware DLP scanner. Synchronous — returns matches inline. Optional `categories` selects which DLP dictionaries to apply.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "input": "<Text to scan.>",
  "categories": [
    "string"
  ]
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "input": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 100000,
          "description": "Text to scan."
        },
        "categories": {
          "maxItems": 100,
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 120
          },
          "description": "Optional DLP dictionary ids to restrict the scan to."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "input"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

200Scan matches + pattern counts.
400(no description)
401(no description)
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/dlp/scan \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "input": "<Text to scan.>", "categories": [ "string" ] }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/dlp/scan",
  body: {
    "input": "<Text to scan.>",
    "categories": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/dlp/scan",
    body={
    "input": "<Text to scan.>",
    "categories": [
        "string"
    ]
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"input":"<Text to scan.>","categories":["string"]}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/dlp/scan", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401429

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