AbstractAPI Javascript Phone Validation Library - Wrapper to quickly start using the powerful AbstractAPI's Phone Validation service in your projects.
npm install @abstractapi/javascript-phone-validationIntegrate the powerful Phone Validation API from Abstract in your Javascript or NodeJS project in a few lines of code.
Abstract's Phone Number Validation and Verification API is a fast, lightweight, modern, and RESTful JSON API for determining the validity and other details of phone numbers from over 190 countries.
It's very simple to use: you only need to submit your API key and a phone number, and the API will respond as assessment of its validity, as well as additional details like the carrier details, line type, region and city details, and more.
Validating and verifying phone numbers is a critical step to reducing the chances of low quality data and fraudulent or risky users in your website or application.
You can install javascript-phone-validation via npm, from our CDN, or download the source into your project.
Download and install the library from npm:
``
npm install @abstractapi/javascript-phone-validation --save
In your project, import it and configure your API_KEY:
`js
import {AbstractPhoneValidation} from 'javascript-phone-validation'
AbstractPhoneValidation.configure('API_KEY')
`
You can have the browser download the library from its closest location through jsDeliver CDN:
`js`
You can build the library yourself, or get the already built file from the dist directory and load it:
`js`
Get your API key for free and without hassle from the Abstact website.
AbstractAPI javascript-phone-validation library returns a Promise so you can use one of the following approaches:
`js`
async function validatePhone(number) {
let response = await AbstractPhoneValidation.verify(number);
console.log(response);
}
`js`
function validatePhone(number) {
AbstractPhoneValidation.verify(number)
.then(response => {
console.log(response);
})
}
The API response is returned in a IpGeolocationData object.
| PARAMETER | TYPE | DETAILS |
| - | - | - |
| number | String | The phone number submitted for validation and verification. |
| valid | Boolean | Is true if the phone number submitted is valid. |
| local_format | String | The local or national format of the submitted phone number. For example, it removes any international formatting, such as "+1" in the case of the US. |
| international_format | String | The international format of the submitted phone number. This means appending the phone number's country code and a "+" at the beginning. |
| country_name | String | The name of the country in which the phone number is registered. |
| country_code | String | The country's two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. |
| country_prefix | The country's calling code prefix. |
| registered_location | String | As much location details as are available from our data. This can include the region, state / province, and in some cases down to the city. |
| carrier | String | The carrier that the number is registered with. |
| line_type | String | The type of phone number. The possible values are: Landline, Mobile, Satellite, Premium, Paging, Special, Toll_Free, and Unknown. |
You will find additional information and request examples in the Abstract help page.
If you need help installing or using the library, please contact Abstract's Support.
For bug report and feature suggestion, please use this repository issues page.
Contributions are always welcome, as they improve the quality of the libraries we provide to the community.
Please provide your changes covered by the appropriate unit tests, and post them in the pull requests page.
Run npm install in the command line to install the dependencies. To update those dependencies you need to run npm update.
To build the library and generate the minified file in the dist directory, you need to run npm run build.
To build the lib, you need to run npm run build:lib.
To run the test suite, you need to run: npm run test`.