⭐ Website Contact Email Scraper – B2B Lead Generation

This Apify actor scrapes contact email addresses from business websites with high accuracy and intelligent filtering.

It utilizes network request interception and smart contact page detection to extract emails from homepage DOMs, API responses, and specific "Contact Us" pages — all packaged into a structured dataset ideal for lead generation and outreach.

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🚀 What It Does

For every website URL provided, the actor extracts:

🏢 Site Overview

• 🌐 Input URL (As entered)
• 🔗 Normalized URL (Standardized format)
• 📧 Total Emails Found
• ⏱️ Processing Duration
• 📅 Scrape Timestamp

📩 Email Data

For each email found:

✉️ Email Address

🚦 Priority Classification

• High: info@, contact@, support@ (or matches domain name)
• Medium: sales@, jobs@, press@
• Low: Personal/Specific names

🔗 Source URL (Exact page where the email was found)

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⚡ It Handles

• ✅ Multiple Website URLs (Batch processing)
• 🕵️ Smart Contact Page Detection (Finds /contact, /about, /support etc.)
• 🕸️ Network Interception (Catches emails hidden in API JSON responses)
• 🛡️ Domain Scoping (Ignores 3rd party emails like gmail.com unless matched)
• 🧹 Deduplication (Ensures unique emails per domain)
• 🚦 Intelligent Prioritization (Sorts emails by relevance)

⚠️ The actor crawls the Homepage and up to 20 candidate contact pages per domain to ensure deep coverage without getting stuck.

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🧠 How It Works

• Normalizes input URLs to ensure valid formats.

• Crawls the homepage to extract visible emails.

• Intercepts background network requests (XHR/Fetch) to find hidden emails in JSON data.

• Detects & navigates to "Contact Us" or "About Us" pages automatically.

• Classifies emails by priority (High/Medium/Low).

• Deduplicates results to provide a clean list.

• Saves structured data to Apify Dataset.

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description	Example
startUrls	Array	List of target websites	["example.com"]
maxConcurrency	Integer	Max pages processed in parallel (Default: 10)	10
maxRequestRetries	Integer	Retries per page on failure (Default: 2)	2

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🧩 Example Input

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.iana.org", "apify.com", "https://inoleds.com"],
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "maxRequestRetries": 2
}

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📊 Example Output

{
  "inputUrl": "www.iana.org",
  "normalizedUrl": "https://www.iana.org",
  "emails": [
    {
      "email": "iana@iana.org",
      "priority": "high",
      "source": "https://www.iana.org/contact"
    }
  ],
  "emailCount": 1,
  "processTimeMs": 18146,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-15T11:35:35.922Z"
}

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🧠 Features

• ⭐ Strict Domain Matching (Only extracts emails belonging to the target website)
• 📊 Priority Sorting (Get the most relevant contact info first)
• 🕒 Fast Execution (Optimized navigation limits)
• 🌍 Universal Support (Works on .com, .de, .org, and all TLDs)
• 📦 Structured JSON Output

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💡 Use Cases

• B2B Lead Generation
• Sales Outreach Automation
• Link Building & Guest Post Outreach
• Market Research
• Recruitment & HR Sourcing
• Directory Building

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❓ FAQs

1. Does this scrape generic emails like Gmail or Yahoo?

• No. The scraper enforces Strict Domain Matching. If you scrape example.com, it will only return emails ending in @example.com to ensure lead quality.

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2. How does it prioritize emails?

It uses a prefix classification system:

• High: Generic contacts (info, hello) or matches the domain name.
• Medium: Department specific (sales, hr).
• Low: Everything else.

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3. Why didn't it find an email?

Some sites protect emails using:

• Images instead of text
• Complex JavaScript obfuscation (though network interception catches many of these)
• Contact forms without visible email addresses

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🧑‍💻 Developer Info

Author: codescraper Email: codescraper011@gmail.com

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🏷️ Tags

website-emails-scraper . email-scraper · contact-extractor · lead-generation · b2b-leads · crawler · web-scraping · marketing-automation · sales-tools