Number Lookup For Vodafone

Number Lookup is an API for identifying whether Vodafone is the current manager/owner of an MSISDN. This is needed because some countries do not have a central number portability service.

This API follows a proprietary Vodafone specification.

It can be used for

• Identifying the manager/owner of an MSISDN.

• Seamless verification of the mobile number in real-time.

API Information

Endpoints

How it works

1. A Service Provider wants to check whether Vodafone is the current owner of an MSISDN.

2. The Service Provider sends a request to the Number Lookup API with the relevant MSISDN.

3. The Number Lookup API checks in real-time whether the phone number is owned by Vodafone.

4. The API responds with true if the MSISDN is owned by Vodafone and with HTTP 400 error with the description "Unknown user." otherwise.

Billing Rule

A billable event occurs when the service returns an HTTP 200 "True" response indicating that the submitted MSISDN is registered to Vodafone or an MVNO operating on the Vodafone network.

Run in Postman

To begin using the Vodafone workspace in Postman, please follow the steps below to create a set of credentials that can be used with our sandbox collections:

• Register an account on https://developer.vodafone.com and create a sandbox app for the APIs that you are interested in.

• Use the Client Key and Secret from your sandbox app to populate the relating variables in the "Sandbox Credentials" environment group in Postman.

• Call the token endpoint to create a bearer token that is used in the API resource endpoint. Your client credentials will be taken from the environment variables and used in a basic OAuth flow.

• You need to call the token end-point for each API as the API scope is held in the request body of the token call.

• The last bearer token and trace ID will be stored in collection variables associated with the API solution that you have chosen.

• You can use these collections as read-only or create a fork into your own personal workspace to edit the details.

You can access all of Vodafone's sandbox APIs in our Postman workspace by clicking the link below:

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