asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Reverse phone lookup interface with asterisk

I've had some success setting up a crude "screen pops" using
Jabber, and am
pretty happy with it. But I'd love to have it pop up with the full name and
address of the caller.

The easiest way to do this is using ServiceObjects "GeoPhone" web
service -
although it's expensive for small shops (free trial, but $50+/mo after
that).  The interface would be pretty simple using Perl and SOAP::Lite, if
one knew Perl.  Which, after a few hours of tinkering, I can safely say I
don't.

My question is twofold:
Has anyone written an interface to this by any chance?
Or even better -
Has anyone written an interface to Google's search, which appears to have
free reverse # lookup?

Thanks - joe

Joe Presto wrote:
>I've had some success setting up a crude "screen pops" using
Jabber, and am
>pretty happy with it. But I'd love to have it pop up with the full name
and
>address of the caller.
>  
>
I'm working on screen pop functionality for XRMS, an open source CRM/SFA 
package. I would be very interested to see your jabber implementation.
>The easiest way to do this is using ServiceObjects "GeoPhone" web
service -
>although it's expensive for small shops (free trial, but $50+/mo after
>that).  The interface would be pretty simple using Perl and SOAP::Lite, if
>one knew Perl.  Which, after a few hours of tinkering, I can safely say I
>don't.
>  
>
Where can I find out more about GeoPhone? (Google didn't produce any 
obvious results on the name.)
>My question is twofold:
>Has anyone written an interface to this by any chance?
>Or even better -
>Has anyone written an interface to Google's search, which appears to
have
>free reverse # lookup?
>  
>
Are refering to a Google API implementation or just opening the google 
search page?
If you just want a search page, use 
http://www.google.com/search?q=$phone_number

cheers,
glenn

Just thought I'd post an update on my progress.  

- I asked ServiceObjects to create a Perl script - no response yet.
- I found this reverse lookup script that uses anywho.com:
http://search.cpan.org/~phocus/revphone-0.01/lib/revphone.pm.  Managed to
integrate it with my email and jabber notification scripts without too much
hassle.  Seems to work well, but for residential listings only - doesn't
work for businesses.

Missing business listings is not good - I'm going to keep looking for
pay-for and free solutions. 

Thanks - Joe
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> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Presto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:46 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Reverse phone lookup interface with asterisk
> 
> I've had some success setting up a crude "screen pops" using
Jabber, and
> am
> pretty happy with it. But I'd love to have it pop up with the full name
> and
> address of the caller.
> 
> The easiest way to do this is using ServiceObjects "GeoPhone" web
service
> -
> although it's expensive for small shops (free trial, but $50+/mo after
> that).  The interface would be pretty simple using Perl and SOAP::Lite, if
> one knew Perl.  Which, after a few hours of tinkering, I can safely say I
> don't.
> 
> My question is twofold:
> Has anyone written an interface to this by any chance?
> Or even better -
> Has anyone written an interface to Google's search, which appears to
have
> free reverse # lookup?
> 
> Thanks - joe
>