phonenumbers library in python

Get different requirements daily, so the recent requirement I got was to extract the carriers of phone numbers, validate them e.g: is it mobile number or not and get the location of the number without using any third party API. So after some R&D, I got to know about the library in python named "phonenumbers" and with this library I easily extract the certain informations about the mobile number.

Pre-requisites:

• python

Installations:

Install library with the following command:

pip install phonenumbers        

Imports:

Import the phonenumbers module and some of it features which we will explore below.

import phonenumber
from phonenumbers import carrier
from phonenumbers import geocoders        

Usage:

1. Parse Country Code:

Pass the number and get the country code of the phone number. It returns the object of class phonenumbers. It has 2 keys:

1. country_code
2. national_number

Syntax:

//number is encrypted here you have to pass the original number

x = phonenumbers.parse("+9231*****147", None) 
print(x)        

Output:

2. Number Validation:

Pass the parsed object to check the is number valid. It returns boolean (True\False).

Syntax:

// x is the same above parsed object in section 1 of "usage"
 
isPossible = phonenumbers.is_valid_number(x)
print("isValid:",isPossible)        

Output:

3. Parse Detail:

3.1. Location:

We can get the location of the number in the specified language. Pass the parsed object and the language string e.g: 'en' for english ,'fr' for french.

Syntax:

// x is the same above parsed object in section 1 of "usage" and "geocoder" is imported in "import" section.

location =geocoder.description_for_number(x, "en")
print("location:",location)        

Output:

3.2. Carrier/Operator:

We can easily get the carrier/operator of the number too like either the number belongs to Ufone, Verizon, Jazz service etc. It takes similar arguments, we provided in the location block (Section 3.1).

Syntax:

// x is the same above parsed object in section 1 of "usage" and "carrier" is imported in "import" section.

carriers = carrier.name_for_number(x, "en")
print("Carrier:",carriers)        

Output:

Conclusion:

These were some simple methods of phonenumbers library. To explore more about the phonenumbers library checkout its documentation here. The code for the scenario I shared in the introduction is uploaded on the github, checkout here.

Thank you for the read and do share your experience with this library!.