# TikTok Influencer Email Finder - Creator Contacts (`apricot_blackberry/influencer-email-finder`) Actor

Stop hand-hunting for creator emails. Drop in TikTok usernames and get MX-verified business emails pulled from bios and link-in-bio pages (Linktree, Beacons, personal sites) — and you only pay when an email is actually found.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apricot\_blackberry/influencer-email-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Creator Fusion](https://apify.com/apricot_blackberry) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## TikTok Influencer Email Finder — Creator Contacts

TikTok username in, **verified business email out**. This Actor pulls a creator's public profile stats, extracts contact emails from the bio, and when the bio has no email it fetches the creator's **link-in-bio page** (Linktree, Beacons, personal sites) and mines it for addresses and `mailto:` links. Every found email is **MX-verified** via DNS so you know the domain can actually receive mail before you write to it.

Built for influencer outreach, creator sourcing, and TikTok Shop seller campaigns: you get the profile data to qualify the creator *and* the contact to reach them — in one run, one dataset.

### What you get per creator

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `username`, `nickname`, `verified` | Identity |
| `followers`, `following`, `likes`, `videos` | Qualification stats |
| `bio`, `bioLink` | Bio text and link-in-bio URL |
| `email` | Best contact email found (bio first, then link-in-bio page) |
| `emailSource` | `bio` or `bio-link` |
| `mxValid`, `mxRecords` | DNS MX verification result for the email domain |
| `allEmails` | Every address found, if more than one |
| `rowType` | `lead` (email found) or `profile` (no email) |

### Pricing that matches value

You pay the full lead price **only when an email is actually found** (`lead-with-email`). Profiles delivered without an email are charged at a fraction of that (`profile-no-email`). Failed profiles are never charged and never pollute your dataset — they go to the run SUMMARY instead.

### How it works

1. **Profile extraction** — three-tier fallback (profile page → embed surface → oEmbed) so a blocked tier doesn't kill the run. Fresh proxy session per profile.
2. **Bio email scan** — strict pattern match with junk filtering.
3. **Link-in-bio crawl** — one page fetch of the creator's declared link; extracts visible emails and `mailto:` targets.
4. **MX verification** — DNS lookup per unique domain (cached across the run).

### Quick start

```json
{
  "usernames": ["creator1", "creator2", "creator3"]
}
```

Or paste profile URLs into `urls`. That's it — defaults handle the rest.

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

List of TikTok usernames to extract contacts for (with or without the @).

## `urls` (type: `array`):

TikTok profile URLs (alternative to usernames), e.g. https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo

## `username` (type: `string`):

Convenience field for one profile. Equivalent to one entry in Usernames.

## `followBioLink` (type: `boolean`):

When no email is in the bio, fetch the creator's link-in-bio page (Linktree, Beacons, personal site) and extract emails and mailto: contacts from it.

## `verifyMx` (type: `boolean`):

DNS MX lookup on each found email's domain so you know the address can actually receive mail before you send.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many attempts per profile before falling back through the embed and oEmbed extraction tiers.

## `delayBetweenRequests` (type: `integer`):

Pause between profile fetches in milliseconds. Raise this if you process large lists.

## `navigationTimeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

Per-request timeout in milliseconds.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings for TikTok requests. Defaults to Apify residential proxy (proxy usage is billed to your account).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "natgeo",
    "gordonramsayofficial"
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo"
  ],
  "username": "natgeo",
  "followBioLink": true,
  "verifyMx": true,
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "delayBetweenRequests": 1500,
  "navigationTimeoutMs": 25000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leads` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "usernames": [
        "natgeo",
        "gordonramsayofficial",
        "charlidamelio"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("apricot_blackberry/influencer-email-finder").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 = { "usernames": [
        "natgeo",
        "gordonramsayofficial",
        "charlidamelio",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("apricot_blackberry/influencer-email-finder").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 '{
  "usernames": [
    "natgeo",
    "gordonramsayofficial",
    "charlidamelio"
  ]
}' |
apify call apricot_blackberry/influencer-email-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/NCwfMBDvz24vzdY7U/builds/aiNhchPgccMIA30iY/openapi.json