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Bulk Phone Validator

Tomba’s Bulk Phone Validator helps you clean, verify, and structure large phone number datasets.

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Bulk Phone Validator

The Bulk Phone Validator allows you to upload a list of phone numbers and verify their validity, format, and carrier details — helping you clean your data and improve deliverability.

🔒 Note: Bulk Phone Validator is available on premium plans only.


How to Use Bulk Phone Validator

  1. Go to the Bulks page

  2. Click on Phone Validator

  3. Click + New Bulk and give your task a unique name

  4. Upload your file containing phone numbers

📄 Accepted formats: .CSV or .TXT
📌 Your file should contain one phone number per row, preferably in international format (e.g., +14155552671)


Validation Checks Performed

For each phone number, Tomba provides:

Field

Description

Validity

Indicates if the number is active and callable

Line Type

Identifies whether the number is mobile, landline, VoIP, etc.

Carrier

Shows the telecom provider (e.g., AT&T, Vodafone)

Region / Country

Detected country or region based on the phone prefix

Formatting

Properly formatted version of the phone number


Download & Understand Results

After processing:

  • Click Download to export your results in .CSV format

  • You can choose to:

    • Download all results

    • Download only valid numbers

    • Download only invalid or unknown numbers


Tips for Best Results

✅ Ensure your phone numbers include the country code
✅ One number per row, in a single column
✅ Max file size: 4MB
✅ Max records per bulk: 10,000


Managing Your Bulk Tasks

Easily manage your phone validation tasks:

  • Sort: By task name, status, or date

  • Search: Quickly locate a specific bulk

  • Rename: Edit the name of your bulk task

  • Delete: Remove any task via the dropdown menu


Validate Phone Numbers in Excel

Tomba’s Microsoft Excel Add-in allows validation inside spreadsheets:

  1. Open your file in Excel

  2. Go to the Phone Validator tab

  3. Select the column with phone numbers

  4. Click "Validate phone numbers"

A new column will display validation results, status, and formatted output.


Validate Phone Numbers in Google Sheets

  1. Open your Google Sheet

  2. Go to the Phone Validator tab

  3. Select the column with phone numbers

  4. Click "Validate phone numbers"

Results will populate with:

  • Validity status

  • Carrier info

  • Region details

  • Proper formatting


Validate via API

You can validate phone numbers programmatically with Tomba’s API:

from tomba.client import Client from tomba.services.phone import Phone client = Client().set_key('ta_xxxx').set_secret('ts_xxxx') phone_validator = Phone(client) result = phone_validator.phone_validator('+14155552671')

Official SDKs Available

Tomba offers SDKs for:

Python, PHP, Go, Rust, Ruby, Dart, JavaScript, C#, R, Lua, Elixir, and more.


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