# Email Scraper & Validator (`akash9078/email-scraper-validator`) Actor

Crawl websites, extract email addresses, validate each with a third-party validation API, and output clean, scored results.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/akash9078/email-scraper-validator.md
- **Developed by:** [Akash Kumar Naik](https://apify.com/akash9078) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 email results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Email Scraper & Validator

Crawl websites, extract email addresses, validate each with a third-party validation API, and output clean, scored results.

### What it does

- Crawls one or more start URLs with CheerioCrawler (proxy support, session pool, retries).
- Extracts emails from mailto links, visible text, JSON-LD, meta tags, and Cloudflare-protected emails.
- De-obfuscates common patterns like `name [at] domain [dot] com`.
- Normalizes and de-duplicates emails globally, keeping up to 5 source URLs per email.
- Validates each email via the configured validation API in batches.
- Filters by disposable, role account, free provider, and minimum score.
- Writes one row per unique email to the default dataset plus a run summary to the key-value store.

### Input fields

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| startUrls | requestListSources | - | Websites to crawl |
| emails | string\[] | - | Validate-only mode, no crawling |
| maxPagesPerDomain | integer | 10 | Page cap per domain |
| maxDepth | integer | 2 | Crawl depth |
| prioritizeContactPages | boolean | true | Prefer contact/about/team/support pages |
| sameDomainOnly | boolean | true | Stay on same domain |
| validateEmails | boolean | true | Run validation |
| minScore | integer 0-100 | 0 | Minimum score filter |
| excludeDisposable | boolean | true | Drop disposable emails |
| excludeRoleAccounts | boolean | false | Drop role accounts |
| excludeFreeProviders | boolean | false | Drop free providers |
| validationApiUrl | string | https://email.lifestep.io | Validation API base URL |
| validationBatchSize | integer | 25 | Emails per API request |
| maxConcurrency | integer | 10 | Concurrent crawler requests |
| proxyConfiguration | proxy | - | Apify proxy settings |
| maxResults | integer | 0 | 0 = unlimited |

At least one of startUrls or emails is required.

### Sample output

```json
{
  "email": "contact@example.com",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "sourceUrls": ["https://example.com/contact"],
  "foundOn": "https://example.com/contact",
  "validationStatus": "validated",
  "syntaxValid": true,
  "hasMx": true,
  "mxHosts": ["mail.example.com"],
  "isDisposable": false,
  "isRoleAccount": true,
  "isFreeProvider": false,
  "suggestion": null,
  "score": 80,
  "verdict": "deliverable_likely",
  "note": "MX records found; no SMTP probe was performed.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing.

| Event | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Email Result | $10.00 per 1,000 results |

You are charged once for each email result pushed to the dataset, at $0.01 per result. Crawling and validation work that produces no output row is not charged.

### Use cases

- Lead list cleaning
- Contact enrichment for sales and outreach
- Validating user-submitted email lists
- Removing disposable and role accounts from mailing lists

### Limitations

- Validation is heuristic (syntax + DNS/MX only). No SMTP probe is performed, so results cannot confirm that a mailbox exists or guarantee deliverability.
- Cloudflare and other protections may limit crawling.
- Respect robots.txt is enabled by default.

### FAQ

**Does this confirm a mailbox exists?**
No. The validation API checks syntax and DNS/MX records only. It does not probe SMTP.

**Can I validate a list without crawling?**
Yes. Provide emails in the emails input field and leave startUrls empty.

**What happens if the validation API is down?**
Emails are still output with validationStatus "unavailable" and a warning is logged. The run does not crash.

### Keywords

email scraper, email extractor, email validator, contact email finder, email list cleaner

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more website URLs to crawl for email addresses.

## `emails` (type: `array`):

Validate-only mode: provide email addresses directly without crawling. Leave empty to crawl startUrls.

## `maxPagesPerDomain` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages crawled per domain before stopping.

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

How many link levels deep to crawl from each start URL.

## `prioritizeContactPages` (type: `boolean`):

Prefer URLs and links containing contact, about, team, support, impact, reach, imprint, kontakt, legal.

## `sameDomainOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only follow links on the same domain as the start URL.

## `validateEmails` (type: `boolean`):

Validate extracted emails with the validation API.

## `validationApiUrl` (type: `string`):

Base URL of the email validation API.

## `validationBatchSize` (type: `integer`):

Number of emails per validation API request.

## `minScore` (type: `integer`):

Filter out emails with a validation score below this value (0-100).

## `excludeDisposable` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude disposable and temporary email addresses.

## `excludeRoleAccounts` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude role accounts such as info@, support@, admin@.

## `excludeFreeProviders` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude emails from free providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of email rows to output (0 = unlimited).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum concurrent crawler requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://yesintelligent.com"
    }
  ],
  "emails": [
    "contact@yesintelligent.com"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 10,
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "prioritizeContactPages": true,
  "sameDomainOnly": true,
  "validateEmails": true,
  "validationApiUrl": "https://email.lifestep.io",
  "validationBatchSize": 25,
  "minScore": 0,
  "excludeDisposable": true,
  "excludeRoleAccounts": false,
  "excludeFreeProviders": false,
  "maxResults": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `emails` (type: `string`):

One row per unique email address, with validation score, verdict, provider flags and source URLs.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Pages crawled, emails found and validated, and counts of filtered emails.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://yesintelligent.com"
        }
    ],
    "emails": [
        "contact@yesintelligent.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("akash9078/email-scraper-validator").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://yesintelligent.com" }],
    "emails": ["contact@yesintelligent.com"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("akash9078/email-scraper-validator").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://yesintelligent.com"
    }
  ],
  "emails": [
    "contact@yesintelligent.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call akash9078/email-scraper-validator --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,akash9078/email-scraper-validator"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/C1AxnQfk25ToCsSza/builds/hEc85Nn9tlImqaXQC/openapi.json