Caller ID Made Simple

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Post by nantes » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

Caller ID Made Simple
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Post by savrajsingh » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 2:57 AM UTC

I've wondered why twilio doesn't have this feature. Good stuff!

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Post by chime » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 2:59 AM UTC

This is the first API that I've encountered that works with cellphone numbers. I can see this being integrated into Android for incoming calls from unknown cellphone numbers.

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Post by huhtenberg » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:07 AM UTC

The drawing - is that Goemon from Rupan/Lupin series by any chance?

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Post by taf2 » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:17 AM UTC

savrajsingh wrote: post #2

I've wondered why twilio doesn't have this feature. Good stuff!

They do provide caller id information, but not in a query interface like this. You either get the caller id information after making a call or receiving a call. Assuming you have the number configured and it costs 1 cent per lookup with the associated call.

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Post by mikeknoop » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:32 AM UTC

chime wrote: post #3

This is the first API that I've encountered that works with cellphone numbers. I can see this being integrated into Android for incoming calls from unknown cellphone numbers.

My thoughts exactly! I easily get less than 60 calls per hour so this would be perfect. Interestingly, the caller ID for my number is tied to the first owner of my account before it was transferred to me (which happened many years ago).

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Post by asciident » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:36 AM UTC

I tried 6 numbers of friends and only one returned a result. Are many numbers not callerid-able, or is the api just bogged down?

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Post by mikeknoop » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:38 AM UTC

asciident wrote: post #7

I tried 6 numbers of friends and only one returned a result. Are many numbers not callerid-able, or is the api just bogged down?

I had to refresh the page a few seconds later to get my ID information to show up after the first request.

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Post by b14ck » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:40 AM UTC

asciident wrote: post #7

I tried 6 numbers of friends and only one returned a result. Are many numbers not callerid-able, or is the api just bogged down?

Hi there. So, I'm the author of this article. Anyhow, for our free-tier users we don't provide realtime lookups.

Basically, we'll only return a result if we have a caller ID in our cache. So, if you get a 404 (no output), then try again a few seconds later after we've had time to do the lookup via our backend.

Sorry about that! Realtime lookups are currently restricted to API key users only.

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Post by steveh73 » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 3:40 AM UTC

Please make it more obvious that this only works for US phone numbers