Google maps/places API search by phone

Question

We have a signup page where the user enters his business phone number. We want to find his business information from the phone number for verification. How can this be done with Google places/maps api? Is there any better alternative? I am kind of lost.

Answer 1

After looking through the google api to double-check, their response doesn't return a phone number for the company either. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/

It also may depend on the type of business you're looking for but Yelp does allow phone number searches in their API: https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/phone_search