North American Phone Number Intelligence

Send Scout a North American (NANP) phone number and get back Operating Company, Line Type, portability and routing, exchange geography, and a Risk Rating, all in a single response.

Example response 32 fields, one call

{
  "dialcode_e164": "+16502530000",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "timezone_short": "PDT",
  "timezone_utc_offset": "-08:00",
  "region": "West",
  "sub_region": "Pacific",
  "administrative_area_level_3": null,
  "administrative_area_level_2": "San Francisco County",
  "administrative_area_level_1": "California",
  "administrative_area_level_1_short": "CA",
  "locality": "San Francisco",
  "sublocality_level_1": null,
  "point_of_interest": null,
  "neighborhood": null,
  "clli": "SNFCCASY",
  "switch_assignment_date": "2005-12-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "country": "United States",
  "country_short": "US",
  "postal_code": "94108",
  "operating_company_name": "Twilio",
  "operating_company_type": "clec",
  "lata": "722",
  "ocn": "8826",
  "line_type": "voip",
  "location_routing_number": "+14159686199",
  "ported": true,
  "risk_rating": "highly_likely",
  "risk_level": 94,
  "ported_date": null,
  "dialcode_invalid": false,
  "dialcode_impossible": false,
  "notes": "Email us at support@icehook.com with any inquiries."
}

What Scout Returns

Operating Company & Line Type

Who actually serves the number today: name, OCN, and company type, correct even after a port. Plus the Line Type behind it, such as VoIP or wireless.

operating_company_name line_type

Portability & Routing

Whether a number has been ported, and when. Ported numbers also carry the Location Routing Number for their current exchange, plus LATA and CLLI switch code.

location_routing_number

Geography

Country, state, county, locality, postal code, and time zone for the number’s local exchange. These describe the exchange, not where the caller happens to be.

locality

Risk Rating

A rating from invalid to highly_likely, with a 0-99 Risk Level, for how likely a number is tied to robocalling. It’s a signal for your own logic, not a blocklist.

risk_rating

How Teams Use Scout

Call routing: prioritize or route calls using Operating Company, geography, and Risk Rating.
Outbound reputation monitoring: track the Risk Rating of the numbers your call center dials from.
Bulk number quality checks: review Line Type, portability, and Risk Rating before purchasing numbers in bulk.
Verification and CRM enrichment: add Operating Company, Line Type, and geography data to your own verification workflows or customer records.
Regulatory recordkeeping: use geography and Operating Company data to support regional and industry compliance requirements.

Get Scout

Scout is available through RapidAPI for direct API access, or the Twilio Lookup Add-on if you’re already a Twilio customer. Response data is identical either way.

See a full example API response.