[olug] programmatically getting a phone number for a business?

[Dave Weis]

I'm not sure what the quantity of addresses or how quick you need to look them up but I've used info usa for things like that in the past. We had a list of addresses that that were in range for internet service so we sent that entire list to them and got it back with telephone number among other things. There are also ways to get a copy of the contents of the business and residential sections of the telephone book as a directory publisher but it's relatively expensive.


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Adam Haeder
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:46 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: [olug] programmatically getting a phone number for a business?

I already know the name, address, city, state and zip of a business. If I
search on google maps (for example) with all of that information, I'm
returned a map on the right and data on the left. Part of that data is the
phone number.

I'm looking for an API that will allow me to send all of that data, and
return to me a phone number. Neither the Google Maps API nor the Google
Places API seem to support this. Has anyone done this? Seems like it's
public information, so it should be in a data warehouse somewhere I can
access. Thanks

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