Google maps/places API search by phone

Question

We have a signup page where the user enters his business phone number. We want to find his business information from the phone number for verification. How can this be done with Google places/maps api? Is there any better alternative? I am kind of lost.

Hufford

if you found some concrete solution then it'd be better to share on this plateform – Perrotta

You can find your answer here https://mcmap.net/q/1012646/-how-does-quot-phone-quot-app-show-information-of-contacts-that-are-not-on-the-address-book – Threap

Answer 1

After looking through the google api to double-check, their response doesn't return a phone number for the company either. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/

It also may depend on the type of business you're looking for but Yelp does allow phone number searches in their API: https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/phone_search

Shreve

please dear , stick to the point . question is not about yelp . It clearly states "how can we get a place using phone number in google places api" – Perrotta

Question also clearly states: "Is there any better alternative?". Please appreciate out-of-the-box suggestions even if they may not be directly applicable to your situation. – Beebeebe

@ImranNaqvi calm down man, you're not even the person who asked the question – Philosophism

@TheSexiestManinJamaica i'm fine dear , no worries – Perrotta

Answer 2

Looks like you can get what you want using the Place details call of the web-service api. Amongst the fields returned are the formatted_phone_number and international_phone_number.

Janettajanette

yeah josh we can get phone number , but what the question says is "how can we get the place using the phone number" – Perrotta

Sorry, need to read better. Have you tried running a text search request for the phone number in question and parsing the results? It's definitely a kludge solution, but it might work. – Janettajanette

@JoshDoebbert just tried it, doesn't work I'm afraid. It returns "status": "ZERO_RESULTS" – Philosophism