Get Google Voice from Outside the USA

Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, free US long distance, low rates on international calls, and many calling features like transcripts, call blocking, call screening, conference calling, SMS, and more.

Requirements

• a US Google Account
• US Proxy
• US Virtual Phone Number
• US hosting

Introduction

Send the HTTP request by curl again and again to make the number return to the pool of available numbers.
The HTTP request of sending:

Steps

Set up Google Voice

Use a US proxy to browse the Google Voice.

Choose a Google Voice Number

Input numbers that you want，e.g. 34567,0000,6666
Select one, Format to ten digit numbers, e.g. 5134567915

Link a phone number

Normally, you are not able to gain a number immediately after linking a virtual phone number.

Get the cURL Command

Open Legacy Google Voice, Press F12 or Right-Click–>Inspect Element to open the Web Developer Tools, Switch to Network tab to capture the traffic.
Go to Setting–>Billing, Find the HTTP request, Copy as cURL

Run the Shell Script

Tips

Google Account

Don’t use new Google account to run the shell script, or your account will be easily suspended for violations of our Google Voice Policies.

The Time of Running Shell Script

Spend from a few hours to a whole day to run the shell script. When getting the Google Voice number successfully, the shell script will exit automatically and send a notice to Slack that you have configured on running.

US hosting

You can try Codeanywhere with root SSH.

US Virtual Phone Number

textnow and textPlus are able to pass the verification.

Link a Phone Number

A virtual phone number could be linked no more than three times

Transfer a Google Voice Number

You could transfer the number to another Google account which can be outside the US without linking a phone. After transfer, your linked number will be gone automatically.
When tranferring, the Google Voice will ask to link a forwarding phone. Never mind, just click “Next” and “finish”.

Keep Google Voice Active

Set up a applet of ifttt to call Google Voice once per month/week.
https://ifttt.com/applets/131839p-keep-google-voice-active

Errors

There was an error with your request. Please try again.

Where	Try to choose a phone number on the Legacy Google Voice
Reason	Even if a number is no longer being used it doesn’t immediately return to the pool of available numbers until a cooling off period.
Solution	Repeatly send the HTTP request of choosing number to make the number return to the pool
Source	https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/voice/lYg7vCA9WYQ/0HX821OUdKwJ

Account Error: could not create google voice account.

Where	Sign up the Google Voice account
Reason	Outside the USA
Solution	Use USA Proxy
Source	https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/voice/7U95FKqf2do/DQFzZBLTBAAJ

This phone number can’t be used to sign up for a Google Voice number. Try verifying with another number.

Where	Link a phone number
Reason	the phone number is not available
Solution	Try another virtual phone number, e.g. textnow
Source	https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/voice/fhYNsW1B0AM;context-place=topicsearchin/voice/category$3Amaking-and-receiving-calls%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false

Unknown error, You will need to look up another Google Voice number.

Where	After entering the verification code and linking the phone number successfully, refresh the webpage
Reason	Unknown
Solution	It doesn’t matter. Just following the Steps.
Source