Website Contact Scraper — Email & Phone with a Billing Receipt

Extract emails and phone numbers from a list of websites. Hand it 5,000 domains; get back every contact found, deduped, and a receipt showing exactly what was charged — so you can verify the bill yourself rather than take it on faith.

The difference from every other scraper in this category: you are billed per contact delivered, not per page crawled. A page with 0 contacts costs nothing. A page that takes 800 sub-requests to crawl still only bills for the contacts it yields, not the pages it touched to get there.

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Pricing

$0.004 per contact delivered — emails and phone numbers only. Refused URLs, failed fetches, and duplicates are never charged. Your maximum cost per run is a hard ceiling, not an approximation: work stops before the next charge would exceed it.

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What it extracts

• Emails — from mailto: links (highest reliability) and page text. Common false positives (image filenames, file paths) are filtered.
• Phone numbers — from tel: links. Text-extracted phone numbers are not billed because phone patterns in text produce too many false positives; tel: links are authoritative.
• Social profile URLs — LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, YouTube. Reported for your information; social profiles are not billed.

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What it refuses

Some sources use anti-bot measures or prohibit automated access in their terms of service. URLs on those domains are refused before any fetch is attempted and appear in the dataset with refused: true and a refusedReason explaining why. Refused URLs are never billed. You will see in the BILLING_RECEIPT exactly how many URLs were refused and why.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
urls	array	—	Websites to crawl. Accepts https://example.com, http://example.com/contact, or bare example.com. Duplicates are removed before any fetch.
concurrency	integer	5	Parallel requests (1–20). Higher is faster; lower is gentler on target sites.

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://company.io/contact"],
  "concurrency": 5
}

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Output

One dataset row per input URL:

Field	Description
url	The URL that was crawled (or refused)
hostname	Hostname extracted from the URL
refused	true if this URL was refused by the denylist before any fetch
refusedReason	Why the URL was refused, if refused
fetchedOk	true if the page was fetched and parsed without error
statusCode	HTTP status code from the server
error	Error message if the fetch failed
emails	Unique email addresses found on this page
phones	Unique phone numbers found on this page (from tel: links)
socials	Social profile objects: { platform, url }
contactCount	emails.length + phones.length for this page
newContacts	Contacts from this page that were new to the run (not already found on another page)

A SUMMARY key-value record gives aggregate counts for the run.

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Check your own bill: the billing receipt

Every run writes a BILLING_RECEIPT to the key-value store. Find it at Storage → Key-value store → BILLING_RECEIPT or via API:

GET https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<runKeyValueStoreId>/records/BILLING_RECEIPT

The same numbers appear at the end of the run log under --- billing receipt ---.

Field	What it means
eventName	The charged event — contact-delivered.
delivered	Unique contacts (emails + phones) extracted and returned to you.
billedEvents	Unique contacts actually charged. Compare against your invoice.
duplicatesDropped	Contacts already found earlier in the same run — delivered once, charged once.
failuresNotCharged	Extraction attempts that failed. Never charged.
invalidNotCharged	Inputs that produced no billable contact — duplicate URLs, refused hosts and failed fetches. Never charged.
skipReasons	Breakdown of skipped inputs by reason (e.g. how many URLs were refused and for which domain).
budgetExhausted	true if your maximum cost per run stopped the work.
deliveredUnbilled	Contacts already in flight when the cap was reached — delivered to you free.
billingActive	false when pay-per-event pricing is not in effect — the run was free.
coverageRatio	null — a URL list has no external denominator, so no coverage ratio is calculated.
note	One sentence summarising the billing status.

Reconciling the receipt against what you sent. Every URL you submit ends in exactly one of four places, and the two records together account for all of them:

URLs submitted = urlsCrawled + urlsRefused + urlsFailed + inputDuplicatesSkipped   (SUMMARY)
delivered      = unique contacts returned to you                                   (BILLING_RECEIPT)
billedEvents   = what you were charged for — never more than delivered

skipReasons in the receipt itemises every URL that produced nothing, by reason and by host, so a refusal or a dead page is visible rather than merely absent. A URL that vanishes without appearing in one of those counts is a bug — report it with the run ID and it will be treated as one.

If billedEvents exceeds the number of unique contacts you received, that is a bug — report the run ID to support@drumlin.dev.

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Honest limitations

• One page per URL. The actor fetches the URL as submitted. It does not follow internal links or crawl a whole site. Submit a /contact page directly if that is where the contacts are.
• JavaScript-rendered pages. The actor uses standard HTTP fetches. Content loaded dynamically after page load is not captured.
• tel: links only for phones. Phone numbers in plain text are omitted because formatted phone patterns in prose produce too many false positives to bill on. Use tel: links for reliable phone extraction.
• Results reflect the page at the moment of the run. Pages change.

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About

Every result is checkable without trusting us: the receipt reconciles what was fetched, what was found, and what was charged, so an unexpected bill can be traced to a specific URL rather than disputed in the dark.

A Drumlin Labs tool — labs.drumlin.dev.

Support: support@drumlin.dev — the right address for a wrong result, an unexpected charge, or a refused URL you think should be allowed. Charges, invoices and refunds are handled by Apify as merchant of record, not through this address.