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

[DYNATRON tech]

most websites with cgi can be easily scraped for data using a common
scripting language. curl (and libcurl) can both insert a mozilla user agent
so you dont look like a bot.

do your first search manually. pay attention to the form source and output
source and you can figure it out. some sites are easier than others. find a
website with simple html forms.
On Apr 7, 2011 7:52 AM, "Dave Weis" <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Adam Haeder
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