apipick-china-phone

What This Skill Does

The apipick-china-phone skill is a specialized OpenClaw tool designed for real-time verification and enrichment of Chinese mobile phone numbers. It integrates directly with the apipick China Phone Checker API to provide accurate, up-to-date information for standard 11-digit mobile formats in China. When a user provides a phone number, this agent skill performs a lookup to determine the mobile carrier (e.g., China Mobile, China Telecom, or China Unicom) and the associated geographic registration details, including the province, city, area code, and zip code. This allows developers and analysts to automate data validation, optimize logistics, or filter user data based on location without manually querying multiple databases.

Installation

To integrate this capability into your OpenClaw environment, use the OpenClaw Hub command line. Open your terminal and run the following installation command:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/javainthinking/apipick-china-phone-checker

After installation, ensure you have an API key from https://www.apipick.com. Set this as an environment variable $APIPICK_API_KEY within your OpenClaw configuration to enable seamless authentication. If the key is not detected, the agent will prompt you to input your credentials during runtime.

Use Cases

• Database Cleaning: Quickly audit customer contact lists to identify the carrier and region for each registered mobile number.
• Form Validation: Integrate with user registration forms to provide instant feedback on whether a provided phone number is valid and matches the user's reported city.
• Logistics Coordination: Determine the administrative region of a phone number to route support requests or delivery notifications to the correct local office.
• Lead Qualification: Automatically segment leads by geographic province or carrier, which can be useful for regional marketing campaigns.

Example Prompts

1. "Verify this number +8613800138000 and tell me which province and carrier it belongs to."
2. "Can you check if 13800138000 is a valid mobile number and provide its area code and city?"
3. "Look up the carrier info for 13800138000 and confirm the associated zip code for that location."

Tips & Limitations

• Authentication: Always prioritize setting the API key as an environment variable for secure and frictionless operation.
• Costs: Keep in mind that each request consumes 1 credit. Monitor your usage at the apipick dashboard to avoid service interruptions due to insufficient credits.
• Formatting: While the API handles standard formats, stick to the international format (+86...) or standard 11-digit string for the most reliable results.
• Scope: This skill is strictly for Chinese mobile numbers. It will not return accurate data for international numbers outside of the mainland China carrier network.