📞 Phone Number Validator & Formatter — E.164, Type, Carrier

Validate and clean phone numbers in bulk with Google's libphonenumber — the same library Android and Gmail use. For every number you get: valid or not and why, E.164, international and national format, country, mobile / landline / toll-free / VoIP, original carrier, city or region, time zone and a ready WhatsApp link.

Works on a pasted list, on CSV / JSON / TXT files, or directly on your scraper's dataset (Google Maps, Yellow Pages, LinkedIn, lead lists…): every row is kept and enriched with phone_e164, phone_valid, phone_type…

$0.70 per 1,000 numbers. Rows without a phone and duplicates are free.

• ✅ Any format in: +1 202-456-1111, (415) 555-2671, 0049 30 901820, 011 44 20 7946 0958, Tel: +44 20 7946 0958 / mobile …
• ✅ Finds numbers inside text (several per cell)
• ✅ Uses each row's country (countryCode, country, address.countryCode…) for numbers written without +code — perfect for Google Maps results from many countries
• ✅ E.164 (+12024561111) ready for CRMs, SMS and WhatsApp APIs, plus international, national and tel: formats
• ✅ Line type: MOBILE, FIXED_LINE, FIXED_LINE_OR_MOBILE, TOLL_FREE, PREMIUM_RATE, VOIP, SHARED_COST, PERSONAL_NUMBER, PAGER, UAN, VOICEMAIL
• ✅ Why it's invalid: too_short, too_long, invalid_country_code, local_only_add_area_code, not_assigned_in_this_country
• ✅ Removes duplicates written in different ways
• ✅ Fast and private: everything runs inside the Actor — no third-party API, nothing is sent anywhere, no phone calls or SMS

Who uses it

• Lead generation — clean the phones from Google Maps / directory scrapers before importing them to a CRM or dialer.
• Sales & marketing — keep only mobiles for SMS or WhatsApp campaigns, normalise everything to E.164.
• Data teams — standardise messy phone columns from forms, spreadsheets and exports.
• E-commerce & logistics — check customer phone numbers per country before shipping.

How to use it

A. Paste numbers in Phone numbers (one per line) and set a Default country for numbers without +code.

B. Validate a scraper's results: pick the dataset in Or validate the phones in datasets. The phone column is detected automatically (phone, phoneNumber, telephone, mobile, contact.phone…) or write it in Phone fields.

C. Run it automatically after your scraper: add this Actor as an integration of your scraper run and set datasets to {{resource.defaultDatasetId}}. Every run comes out with clean phones.

Output

List input (one row per number):

{
  "input": "+34 612 34 56 78",
  "valid": true,
  "reason": "ok",
  "e164": "+34612345678",
  "international": "+34 612 34 56 78",
  "national": "612 34 56 78",
  "rfc3966": "tel:+34-612-34-56-78",
  "countryCallingCode": 34,
  "country": "ES",
  "countryName": "Spain",
  "type": "MOBILE",
  "carrier": "Syma",
  "location": "Spain",
  "timeZones": ["Atlantic/Canary", "Europe/Madrid"],
  "extension": null,
  "whatsappUrl": "https://wa.me/34612345678"
}

Dataset input: your original row plus <field>_valid, _reason, _e164, _international, _national, _country, _countryName, _type, _carrier, _location, _whatsappUrl (and _allE164 when a cell holds several numbers):

{
  "title": "Le Bistro",
  "phone": "01 42 68 53 00",
  "countryCode": "FR",
  "phone_valid": true,
  "phone_e164": "+33142685300",
  "phone_countryName": "France",
  "phone_type": "FIXED_LINE",
  "phone_location": "Paris"
}

Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or send to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify integrations. To merge several runs and drop duplicates, use our Merge, Deduplicate & Export Datasets Actor.

Pricing

$0.0007 per phone number checked ($0.70 per 1,000).

Numbers	Price
1,000	$0.70
10,000	$7
100,000	$70

Free: rows without a phone, duplicates and invalid input. Higher Apify plans get an automatic discount. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly at that amount.

FAQ

Does it tell me if the number is active / in use right now? No. It checks that the number is valid for its country (right length and an assigned range) and what kind of line it is. Checking if a line is live needs a paid carrier lookup (HLR) per number, which is why those services cost 10–50× more.

Is the carrier the current one? It's the carrier the number range was originally assigned to; with number portability the customer may have moved. Carriers are mostly known for mobiles.

What does FIXED_LINE_OR_MOBILE mean? In the US, Canada and a few other countries mobiles and landlines share the same ranges, so they can't be told apart from the number alone.

Why is my number "local_only_add_area_code"? It's a local number without the area code (e.g. 555 1234). Add the area code.

Which countries are supported? All of them — every country and territory in libphonenumber (250+).

Is my data safe? Numbers are processed inside the Actor run in your Apify account. Nothing is sent to other services.

Something doesn't work? Open an issue in the Issues tab with an example number — we answer fast.