When raw, gold is yellow and bright in color. Shade it from the sun, its brightness remains the same.
It is one of the most beautiful metals in the world. A good conductor of electricity. It doesn’t rust. You can pound it, shape it to different forms, and yet it doesn’t break.
That’s how I see Python. Python is gold.
The language does things that wow you. And one is using it to track a phone number.
Write eight lines of code, you get the country name the phone number belongs to, and the name of the service provider. No hacking. Here’s how you can do it.
How To Track Phone Number Location With Python
- Open PyCharm and create a new project
To create a new project, click on File at the top-left corner of your screen.
Select New Project.
Give your new project a name, then click Create. For example, the name of my project is tracking.
PyCharm will display your project name at the left side of the screen with its location. It will look like this: C:\Users\hp\PyCharmProject\tracking.
2. Right-click on the project name
Right-click on the project name. Then click New. Now click on Python file.
3. Give the Python file a name
Name the Python file. Ensure the name ends with .py. For example body.py. Press the keyboard — enter.
4. Go to Terminal
Below the screen at the bottom-left, you will see Terminal. Click on it. Now type the following:
pip install phonenumbers
Run it. This will install the Python phonenumbers library. Phonenumbers library is used for parsing, formatting, storing, and validating international phone numbers. Remember to add “s” at the end of phonenumbers.
The installation takes a few minutes. Close the Terminal when the library is installed successfully.
5. Write in body.py
Click on body.py or on the name you gave the file. Now write the following code:
import phonenumbers
6. Create another Python file
Again, right-click on the project name. Click New. Click Python file. Give your new file a different name — for instance, text.py. Let the name also end with .py. Press the keyboard enter.
The purpose of the new file is to store the number you want to track. You will see the full information below.
7. Write in text.py
In text.py (or the name you gave the file), write the number you want to track with the country code:
number = "+000000000000000000"
The variable — number — stores the phone number you want to track. Remember to include the country code starting with a +. The number above is just a random example.
8. Click on body.py
Write:
from text import number
from phonenumbers import geocoder
The first line of the code imports the phone number you want to track to the body.py file.
Geocoder here is a function in phonenumbers. It provides geographical coordinates corresponding to a location.
9. Get the history of the phone number from its country by parsing two parameters
In body.py file, write:
ch_number = phonenumbers.parse(number, "CH")
CH stands for Country History.
10. Run your code
Also in body.py, write:
print(geocoder.description_for_number(ch_number, "en"))
“en” means English. You want the info to display in English.
Note: don’t write “eng”. You will get a blank display.
Run the code. You will find the run option at the top of the screen. Click Run, then press the keyboard enter. Or click Run ‘body’.
You will see the country name of the phone number you tracked displayed below on your screen.
How To Track the Name of Network Provider
For every phone number, there is a network provider.
Include the below codes to find out the name of the network provider of the phone number.
- Click on body.py
Write:
from phonenumbers import carrier
service_provider = phonenumbers.parse(number, "RO")
print(carrier.name_for_number(service_provider, "en"))
Carrier is a function. It helps you get the name of the service provider of the phone number you’re tracking.
Run your code again. You will see the name of the service provider on your screen.
Here’s how all the code looks like:
import phonenumbers
from text import number
from phonenumbers import geocoder
ch_number = phonenumbers.parse(number, "CH")
print(geocoder.description_for_number(ch_number, "en"))
from phonenumbers import carrier
service_provider = phonenumbers.parse(number, "RO")
print(carrier.name_for_number(service_provider, "en"))
Python is the king of automation. It does a lot of things you could think of — WhatsApp message automation, email automation, web scraping, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, web development, and a lot more.