[APP][Updated 16.10] CallerUtility (look up unknown caller)

[audiophil]

Greetings!
Just finished a working version of my new little neat utility which looks up an unknown caller (number among your contacts) with the norwegian service GuleSider.no (yellow pages directory service) and a page called telefonterror.no (lists known telemarketeers in Norway).

When there's a call from an unknown caller the program looks up in both directories and displays the information on top of the HTC-Answer-incoming-call-application.

The program will auto-start on boot and auto-appear when a call is made. As of 16.10 the program supports AppToDate and will be automatically updated by using this.

Please try it out, give me some feedback and buy me a cup of coffee if you like it

Link to the coffee shop(Paypal donations)


CallerUtility Installer (Norwegian version)

Sourcecode available by subversion at: https://callerutility.svn.sourceforg...rUtility/trunk

Anonymous users will give you read-only access, developers must register at sf and contact me to get commit-access.

[palmbluetooth]

Great Idea, would you be able to make it for the US?

[audiophil]

Originally Posted by palmbluetooth Great Idea, would you be able to make it for the US?

Sure, if you got a phone directory service which is easily available by doing simple http requests.
It's just to swap the HTML-parser with a new one...

[chriggi]

cool app! could you add this directory: tel.search.ch (Switzerland) that would be great! also does this consume alot of traffic?

regards

[fyew-jit-tiv]

Originally Posted by audiophil Greetings! Just finished a working version of my new little neat utility which looks up an unknown caller with the norwegian GuleSider.no (yellow pages directory service) and a page called telefonterror.no (lists known telemarketeers in Norway). When there's a call from an unknown caller the program looks up in both directories and displays the information on top of the HTC-Answer-incoming-call-application. The program will auto-start on boot, auto-appear and auto-hide after the call has ended. Please try it out, give me some feedback and buy me a cup of coffee if you like it Link to the coffee shop

Fella what are you saying here.... If someone calls me with their number hidden this software would tell me what number they are dialing from....?

[audiophil]

Originally Posted by fyew-jit-tiv Fella what are you saying here.... If someone calls me with their number hidden this software would tell me what number they are dialing from....?

Ah, sorry: If you get an incoming call, and the number is not in yout contacts-list, this app will look it up using some kind of directory service (like gulesider).
I'll try to refine my first description

[fyew-jit-tiv]

Originally Posted by audiophil Ah, sorry: If you get an incoming call, and the number is not in yout contacts-list, this app will look it up using some kind of directory service (like gulesider). I'll try to refine my first description

Ok... Is it possible to write software that can unscramble withheld numbers...!

[audiophil]

Originally Posted by chriggi cool app! could you add this directory: tel.search.ch (Switzerland) that would be great! also does this consume alot of traffic? regards

Probably if it is possible to extract the needed values from the HTML.

Regarding the datatraffic I just did a test for the gulesider query and the response was of 28Kb so it shouldn't put too big a hole in your wallet!

[audiophil]

Originally Posted by fyew-jit-tiv Ok... Is it possible to write software that can unscramble withheld numbers...!

Hehe, actually I skimmed through an article about Kevin Mittnick and unscrambling numbers recently, I stopped reading when I saw "Mittnick" and "xx thousand USD worth of equipment". So AFAIK it is not possible.

[fyew-jit-tiv]

Originally Posted by audiophil Hehe, actually I skimmed through an article about Kevin Mittnick and unscrambling numbers recently, I stopped reading when I saw "Mittnick" and "xx thousand USD worth of equipment".

LOL... guess your not gonna be writing it then....
Keep up the good work.. going to try your software now will post my results...

P.s Dude if you ever decide to venture this idea, i will donate a decent drink...!