PhoneInfoga Phone Number Scraper - OSINT & Validation

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the PhoneInfoga open-source project. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "PhoneInfoga" is referenced only to describe the kind of check this Actor performs.

Analyse phone numbers the way PhoneInfoga does: validate and format them, detect the country and line type, and get a ready-made set of OSINT footprint URLs for reconnaissance. Feed one number or thousands.

The core needs no API key - parsing, validation, formatting and footprint generation run offline. Add your own numverify key for carrier/location enrichment.

What it does

• Validates each number and reports whether it is valid / possible.
• Formats it four ways: E.164 (+14155552671), international, national, and RFC 3966.
• Detects country, calling code, and line type (mobile, fixed line, toll-free, VoIP, ...).
• Builds OSINT footprint URLs - Google dorks, social-network searches, reputation/spam-check sites, reverse-lookup services, and messaging (WhatsApp/Telegram) links for the number.
• Optional carrier / line-type / location enrichment when you supply a numverify API key.

Example output

{
  "type": "phone",
  "input": "+14155552671",
  "valid": true,
  "e164": "+14155552671",
  "international": "+1 415 555 2671",
  "national": "(415) 555-2671",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "countryCallingCode": "+1",
  "numberType": "FIXED_LINE_OR_MOBILE",
  "footprintUrls": [
    { "kind": "google", "name": "Google exact (E.164)", "url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2B14155552671%22" },
    { "kind": "social", "name": "Facebook search", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=%2B14155552671" },
    { "kind": "reputation", "name": "Truecaller", "url": "https://www.truecaller.com/search/us/4155552671" }
  ]
}

Input

Field	Description
Phone numbers	Numbers to analyse (E.164 preferred; up to 5,000).
Default country	Assumed country for local-format numbers without a + code.
Include OSINT footprint URLs	Generate recon search URLs for each number (on by default).
numverify API key	Optional - your own key to add carrier, line type and location.

Use cases

• OSINT & fraud investigation - fingerprint a number and get every recon lead in one place.
• Lead validation & enrichment - check that phone numbers are valid and mobile before outreach.
• Data cleaning - normalise messy numbers to E.164 with the country resolved.

Notes

The footprint URLs are constructed search links - the Actor does not scrape those third-party sites, so the core runs fast and key-free. Carrier/line-type/location fields appear only when you provide a numverify key. numberType comes from the libphonenumber metadata and may read FIXED_LINE_OR_MOBILE where a country's ranges overlap.

Run it from an agent (MCP / API)

Agent-ready: typed input schema, structured JSON output. An agent or automation can call this Actor to validate, normalise and fingerprint a phone number in one step. Pass phoneNumbers and read the phone records back.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you are charged only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are:

• Phone number analysed - One phone number analysed: validation, formats, country, line type and OSINT footprint URLs

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/phoneinfoga-scraper').call({
    // your input - see the Input section above
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No for the core (validation, formatting, country, line type, footprint). Yes only for carrier/location, via your own numverify key. Is analysing a phone number legal? The Actor formats/validates numbers and builds public search links. You are responsible for how you use the results, in line with applicable law.

Data & lawful use

You supply the input (phone numbers); the Actor only checks or enriches what you give it against publicly available sources. Make sure you collected that input lawfully and have a lawful basis to process it. This is a verification and open-source-intelligence tool for security research, fraud prevention and checking identifiers you are authorised to check. Do not use it to locate, track, profile or harass individuals, and follow the anti-spam and telemarketing rules that apply to you (for example GDPR and PECR in the EU and UK, CAN-SPAM and the TCPA in the US, CASL in Canada). Honour opt-outs and deletion requests.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the PhoneInfoga open-source project. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"PhoneInfoga" is referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to describe the kind of check this Actor performs. This Actor is an independent implementation, is not an official PhoneInfoga product and is not authorised or certified by the PhoneInfoga open-source project. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws and regulations.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.