Alternative to WhitePages API?

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Alternative to WhitePages API?

I'm using the WhitePages API ( developer.whitepages.com ) to get a phone type (landline or cellular) and the phone's service provider (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc), but they only have a personal API which limits you to 2 calls a second and/or 1,500 calls a day. The paid version, or "Pro", is a minimum of $500 a month and/or $0.10 a call.

Does anyone know another service where I can get that information for free or cheaper than $500 / $0.10 a call? If not I'll have to try to cache everything and it'll technically be against their TOS...

We've tried using NetNumber and TargusInfo. Maybe you want to look at them. Not sure how much they cost though.

How much volume are you trying to do?

Hertanto Lie 2010-03-17 19:09:45

I'm not sure, but there has to be more than 2 queries a second as the WhitePages API. The two you sent ill look into but they both have closed off APIs and i have to request quotes... probably spendy :\

Oscar Godson 2010-03-17 23:41:29

Well.. it can't be both cheap and powerful, right? :)

Hertanto Lie 2010-03-19 02:39:07

haha, i'd say most good web services are. Google(+ all products), Apache, jQuery, Twitter API, Mozilla/WebKit/etc :). If you are counting just APIs, still, look at the ones Google, Twitter, and more have released, thats why I thought for sure, SOMEONE has haha

Oscar Godson 2010-03-26 20:21:14

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