ExPhoneNumber

Elixir library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Based on Google's libphonenumber.

Current metadata version: v9.0.16.

Installation

Add :ex_phone_number to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_phone_number, "~> 0.4.10"}
  ]
end

Usage

iex> {:ok, phone_number} = ExPhoneNumber.parse("044 668 18 00", "CH")
{:ok,
 %ExPhoneNumber.Model.PhoneNumber{
   country_code: 41,
   country_code_source: nil,
   extension: nil,
   italian_leading_zero: nil,
   national_number: 446681800,
   number_of_leading_zeros: nil,
   preferred_domestic_carrier_code: nil,
   raw_input: nil
}}

iex> ExPhoneNumber.is_possible_number?(phone_number)
true

iex> ExPhoneNumber.is_valid_number?(phone_number)
true

iex> ExPhoneNumber.get_number_type(phone_number)
:fixed_line

iex> ExPhoneNumber.format(phone_number, :national)
"044 668 18 00"

iex> ExPhoneNumber.format(phone_number, :international)
"+41 44 668 18 00"

iex> ExPhoneNumber.format(phone_number, :e164)
"+41446681800"

iex> ExPhoneNumber.format(phone_number, :rfc3966)
"tel:+41-44-668-18-00"

E164 Formatted Numbers

In E164 formatted numbers the country code can be detected. So you can pass them in to ExPhoneNumber.parse/2 with "" or nil as the second argument.

iex> ExPhoneNumber.parse("+977123456789", "")
{:ok,
 %ExPhoneNumber.Model.PhoneNumber{
   country_code: 977,
   country_code_source: nil,
   extension: nil,
   italian_leading_zero: nil,
   national_number: 123456789,
   number_of_leading_zeros: nil,
   preferred_domestic_carrier_code: nil,
   raw_input: nil
 }}

LLM Integration

This package includes a usage-rules.md file that provides comprehensive guidance for LLM assistants (like Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) on how to use ExPhoneNumber correctly. The file includes common usage patterns, best practices, and helps prevent typical mistakes when working with phone number parsing and validation.

For more information about usage rules files, see:

• Usage Rules package documentation
• Ash Framework's LLM working guide
• Usage Rules GitHub repository

Development

There is a mix update_metadata task that downloads the latest libphonenumber metadata.

Maintenance

For maintainers, see maintenance.md for procedures on updating metadata and releasing new versions.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2023-2025 ExPhoneNumber

Copyright (c) 2016-2022 NLCollect B.V.

The source code is licensed under The MIT License (MIT)