Is it possible to check if a phone number is real or not in Python?

Asked Nov 23 '22 at 10:07

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I have thousands of random phone numbers and I wanted to check which one of them are real and working right now. is_valid_number and is_possible_number methods in phonenumbers library won't solve my issue. Is there any way to identify through Python? Any way maybe through which we send a ping as an sms to the list of numbers and could get some kind of response back to validate the phone numbers. I have seen few posts on stackoverflow like this International phone number validation but they are simply validating either the format of the phone numbers or the possibility if the numbers can be right or not. But my requirement is that I want to know if the phone numbers are working in real life or not.

I have tried using phonenumbers library but there is no such method. I couldn't find anything relevant on the web too.

edited Nov 23 '22 at 11:19

asked Nov 23 '22 at 10:07

jatin

Did you look at Twilio ? They can track status of SMS (delivered or not) via their API in Python. https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/tutorials/how-to-confirm-delivery-python – DamDam Nov 23 '22 at 10:39
No, but seems like it may work. Thank you @DamDam. – jatin Nov 23 '22 at 11:11
SMS will not work on landlines. You'd really have to call to check. – tripleee Nov 23 '22 at 11:22
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How did you acquire these numbers and why do you want to know if those are working? – Abhijit Sarkar Nov 23 '22 at 12:24
It will be great for everyone if you'll add the context you provided to the question as well @JatinDeswal – Lidor Eliyahu Shelef Nov 24 '22 at 09:34

Is it possible to check if a phone number is real or not in Python?

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