Validate Phone Number in Python

Number not in service? It’s nice to know if that’s the case before you make the call. Using the Cloudmersive Validate API, you can make sure a phone number is valid & get additional information about it including national & international formatting, country code & name, and more. The specific iteration you can use for this is called /validate/phonenumber/basic — below, we’ll run through how you can connect in Python.

To begin connecting to this API, start by running the below Python SDK installation command:

pip install cloudmersive-validate-api-client

Next you can start off the function with the below snippet:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_validate_api_client
from cloudmersive_validate_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint

After that, you’ll need to authorize your API key using the below code:

# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

If you don’t already have a Cloudmersive API key, you can get one easily by creating a free account on the Cloudmersive website.

For the final step, copy & paste the remaining code for the callback function:

# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.PhoneNumberApi(cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
value = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.PhoneNumberValidateRequest() # PhoneNumberValidateRequest | Phone number to validate in a PhoneNumberValidateRequest object.  Try a phone number such as \"1.800.463.3339\", and either leave DefaultCountryCode blank or use \"US\".
try:
    # Validate phone number (basic)
    api_response = api_instance.phone_number_syntax_only(value)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling PhoneNumberApi->phone_number_syntax_only: %s\n" % e)