This post will walk through how to use two free tools to check a phone number’s validity using HTML and JavaScript.

If you Googled “phone number regex” and regretted it you’re in the right place. There are a lot of valid phone number formats, but fortunately there are free tools that you can use to help make sure a phone number is valid.

This post will walk through two ways to check a phone number’s validity: the Twilio Lookup API and the intl-tel-input JavaScript plugin. This builds on How to build international phone number input in HTML and JavaScript, which you can reference for more details on building the nice-looking phone number input field I’m using below.

You can find the finished code on my GitHub.

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