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Dec 282017 0 Responses

Phone Number Validation & Lookup JSON API

NumVerify helps web and application developers to validate national and international phone numbers. It provides simple RESTful API that one can use for phone number lookup and validation easily. Around 232 countries around the world is supported.
Passed number is checked in real-time, cross-verified with the latest database of international phone and mobile numbers and output is return with as much information as possible. API returns JSON string containing information like geographical location, carrier details, phone formats, and phone type.

In short, NumVerify allows you to find details behind every phone number and helps you to identify local-friendly number formats, reduce undelivered messages, and protect from spam and fraud.

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Jul 212016 Tagged with , , , , 0 Responses

How to find executive email addresses using Rapporative

rapporative chromeWhether you are a young entrepreneur looking to reach out to a CEO or an experienced marketer looking for leads, finding ceo and executive email addresses is difficult and time-consuming. But I have found a neat little trick that can help you get email address contact you need. It has worked for me 95% of the time, whether I am approaching to major press outlets or contacting prominent investors. Read More…

Jul 122015 Tagged with , , 0 Responses

PHP script for renaming files

You might downloaded large amount of images or PDFs while doing web scraping of e-commerce store products, blog posts and in many other cases. Most of web scraping tool provides file downloading either they are csv, vcf, images (jpg,jpeg,gif,png), pdf or other kind of files but many of them do not provide way to rename them or add extension to them if it’s not present.

php script to rename images

I have encountered a problem specially with image files – many websites have images but they do not have the extension and web scraper just download files as it is as example given below, they are the file names downloaded using web scraper but they don’t have extension .jpg or .png!! Read More…

Jan 042014 Tagged with , ,

How to do data scraping from PDF files using PHP?

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PDF Scraping using PHP

Situations arise when you want to scrap data from PDF or want to search PDF files for matching text. Suppose you have website where users uploads PDF files and you want to give search functionality to user which searches all uploaded PDF file content for matching text and show all PDFs that contains matching search keywords.

Or you might have all London real estate properties details in PDF report file and you want to quickly grab scrape data from PDF reports then you might need PDF scraping library. Read More…