Caller ID Lookup using Python (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Prerequisite :

• Beautiful soup
• Requests module

In this article, we are going to see how we get Caller Id information usingnumverify API. Numverify offers a powerful tool to deliver phone number validation and information lookup in portable JSON format by Just making a request using a simple URL.

For the following program to work you must have an API key and to get one simply Click here.

Module needed:

• bs4: Beautiful Soup(bs4) is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. This module does not come built-in with Python. To install, type the following command in your terminal.

pip install bs4

• requests: Request allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. This module also does not come built-in with Python. To install, type the following command in your terminal.

pip install requests

Approach:

• Import module
• Make a function for GET request
• Pass the URL with existing API key, mobile number, and country code
• Now retrieve the caller id information

Program:

Python3 `

import module

import requests import pandas as pd from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

link for extract html data

Making a GET request

def getdata(url): r=requests.get(url) return r.text

API key

Enter your own API key instead of 'YOUR API KEY'

api = 'YOUR API KEY'

number and country code

number = '9852638787' country = 'IN'

pass Your API, number and country code

in getdata function

htmldata=getdata('http://apilayer.net/api/validate?access_key='+api+'&number='+number+'&country_code='+country+'&format=1') soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldata, 'html.parser') print(soup)

`

Output:

{

"valid":true,

"number":"919852638787",

"local_format":"09852638787",

"international_format":"+919852638787",

"country_prefix":"+91",

"country_code":"IN",

"country_name":"India (Republic of)",

"location":"Bihar",

"carrier":"Aircel Cellular Ltd",

"line_type":"mobile"

}