Phone Number OSINT — Carrier, Country & Footprint (PhoneInfoga)

Investigate a phone number to discover its carrier, country, line type, and online footprint across social media, reputation sites, and disposable-number providers — powered by phoneinfoga (GPL-3.0).

Legal Disclaimer: This Actor is an unofficial integration of phoneinfoga and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the original phoneinfoga project or its maintainers. It returns publicly available information only and stores no personal data. Use responsibly and only on numbers you have authorization to investigate.

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What does this Actor do?

This Actor wraps the open-source OSINT tool phoneinfoga to investigate a phone number and return structured intelligence:

• Validate & normalize the number (E.164, international, local formats)
• Identify country and carrier via offline libphonenumber data
• Detect OVH-owned ranges (European VoIP) — useful for fraud / scam-call investigation
• Generate 30+ Google footprint search links across social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, VK), disposable-number sites, reputation databases, and individual lookup services

Built for fraud investigators, security researchers, journalists, KYC teams, and developers who need automated phone-number reconnaissance backed by a proven open-source OSINT framework.

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Why use this Actor?

• ★ Backed by phoneinfoga — the de-facto open-source phone OSINT tool (16,500+ GitHub stars)
• Zero API keys required — works out of the box for free, no-auth scanners (local, googlesearch, OVH)
• Structured JSON output — ready for Apify datasets, webhooks, or downstream pipelines
• Privacy-first design — public information only, no personal data stored beyond the run dataset
• Schedulable — set up recurring monitoring via Apify Scheduler
• API & MCP access — call via REST API, MCP, or Apify Console

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How to use this Actor

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and click Try for free
2. Enter a phone number in international format (e.g., +14155551234, +821012345678)
3. Check the legal disclaimer box (disclaimerAck: true)
4. Start the Actor — typical run finishes in 5–15 seconds
5. Download results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
number	string	Required. Phone number in international format (E.164 or with country code)	+14155551234
disclaimerAck	boolean	Required. Confirm authorized & lawful use	false
scanners	string	Comma-separated scanners to run. Empty = all free/no-key (local,googlesearch,ovh)	""

Example input:

{
    "number": "+14155551234",
    "disclaimerAck": true,
    "scanners": ""
}

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Output

Each run produces one structured dataset item:

{
    "input": "+14155551234",
    "valid": true,
    "e164": "+14155551234",
    "international": "+1 415-555-1234",
    "localFormat": "(415) 555-1234",
    "country": "US",
    "countryCode": 1,
    "carrier": "",
    "lineType": null,
    "ovhFound": false,
    "ovhCity": null,
    "ovhNumberRange": null,
    "ovhZipCode": null,
    "searchLinkCount": 34,
    "searchLinks": [
        { "category": "social_media", "dork": "site:facebook.com intext:\"4155551234\"...", "url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=..." },
        { "category": "reputation", "dork": "site:whocalled.us ...", "url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=..." }
    ],
    "scannersRun": ["local", "googlesearch", "ovh"],
    "scannerErrors": {},
    "scannedAt": "2026-06-05T12:34:56.789Z",
    "disclaimer": "Public information only..."
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

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Data fields

Field	Format	Description
input	text	Raw input as provided
valid	boolean	Whether number passes E.164 validation
e164	text	Canonical E.164 representation
international	text	Pretty international format
localFormat	text	Country-local format
country	text	ISO country code (e.g., US, KR, FR)
countryCode	number	Numeric country code (e.g., 1, 82, 33)
carrier	text	Carrier name when available from offline data
ovhFound	boolean	Whether number belongs to an OVH Telecom range
ovhCity / ovhNumberRange / ovhZipCode	text	OVH range metadata
searchLinkCount	number	Count of footprint search links generated
searchLinks	array	Google search links across 5 categories (social_media, disposable_providers, reputation, individuals, general)
scannersRun	array	Scanners that were executed
scannerErrors	object	Per-scanner errors (empty when all succeeded)
scannedAt	date	ISO timestamp

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Pricing

This Actor is priced per successful scan:

• $0.05 per valid phone number scanned (Pay-per-Event)
• Invalid numbers are free — no charge if the input fails E.164 validation
• Standard Apify platform compute is also consumed (~$0.001–0.005 per run)

New Apify users receive free monthly credits to get started.

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Tips & Advanced Options

• Multiple numbers: schedule the Actor or use the Apify API to loop through a list
• Specific scanners only: pass scanners: "local,ovh" to skip googlesearch link generation
• CSV export: the searchLinks array unwinds nicely when you select CSV export — one row per link
• Integration: connect to Slack/Discord/webhooks via Apify Integrations to alert on suspicious carrier matches

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FAQ, Disclaimers & Support

Is this legal?

This Actor returns publicly available information only — number-format parsing (offline libphonenumber), OVH's public REST API (no auth), and Google search links you could type yourself. It does not:

• Bypass any authentication
• Scrape private profiles or paywalled databases
• Store personal data beyond the dataset for the run
• Reverse-lookup any database that requires opt-in consent

However, you remain solely responsible for ensuring your use complies with:

• Local privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, PIPA, etc.)
• The Terms of Service of any site you subsequently visit via the generated search links
• Anti-stalking / anti-harassment statutes in your jurisdiction

Only investigate numbers you are authorized to investigate (your own, those of consenting parties, or those covered by a legitimate fraud-prevention / KYC / journalism mandate).

Legal Disclaimer

This Actor is an UNOFFICIAL integration of phoneinfoga, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the original phoneinfoga project or its authors. The phoneinfoga binary is executed as a separate process; this Actor's wrapper code is not a derivative work in the GPL sense. See LICENSE-NOTICE.md in the source for details. The Actor author provides this tool for legitimate security research, fraud prevention, journalism, and authorized investigations only. Users are solely responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws. The author accepts no liability for misuse.

What about numverify / Google Custom Search scanners?

phoneinfoga supports additional scanners (numverify, googlecse) that require your own API keys. To protect users from accidental third-party charges and to keep data flow under your direct control, this Actor enables only the free no-auth scanners by default. Power users who need numverify or googlecse can install phoneinfoga locally and run it with their own credentials.

Known Limitations

• carrier is often empty for non-mobile numbers (libphonenumber limitation)
• OVH lookup is meaningful for European VoIP numbers; returns found: false for most others
• Google search link generation does not execute the queries — you visit the links to view results
• Very common number patterns may return many false-positive matches when you follow the links

Support

• Found a bug? Open an issue in the Issues tab
• Need a custom OSINT solution? Contact via the Apify platform

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