Data8 Live Number Testing API

Data8 is the UK’s premier data solutions provider with a range of data cleansing, postcode lookup and data validation services to ultimately improve business communication with customers.

The Live Number Testing service is a method to validate which UK landline numbers are live. By using the telephone network in real-time, users can tell if a number is available to dial, without making it ring. It uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML.