Website Data & Email Scraper — Enrichment & Validator

Extract verified contact data and business intelligence from any website. Give it a list of URLs and get back emails, phone numbers, social media profiles, website metadata, and optional enrichment — all in a single structured dataset.

Built for B2B lead generation, sales prospecting, and market research at scale.

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What It Does

The actor visits each website you provide, intelligently navigates through its most relevant pages, and extracts every piece of contact and business data it can find. It goes beyond the homepage — it identifies and visits internal pages like Contact, About, Services, and more to maximize data yield.

The result is a clean, deduplicated dataset ready for your CRM, outreach tool, or spreadsheet.

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Key Features

• Email extraction — finds emails from visible text, HTML structure, and mailto: links. Filters out placeholder and tracking addresses automatically.
• Phone number extraction — captures numbers from tel: links and page text, normalizes them to international E.164 format, and deduplicates regional variants (e.g. +54 11 and +5411 become the same number).
• Social media profiles — detects direct profile links for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp, Telegram, Pinterest, and more.
• Strategic internal page crawling — visits Contact, About, Services, Portfolio, Pricing, and other relevant sections to find contact data that isn't on the homepage.
• Website metadata — extracts page title, meta description, keywords, and CMS/generator.
• Optional enrichment — Email Domain Validation, Platform Account Detection, and Domain Intelligence (described below).

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Use Cases

• B2B lead generation — build verified contact lists from a batch of prospect websites.
• Sales prospecting — enrich a lead list with emails and phone numbers before outreach.
• Market research — understand what technology stack and services your target market uses.
• Competitor analysis — gather public contact and infrastructure data for competitor websites.
• Agency & freelance — deliver contact datasets to clients from their target industry.

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Input

Field	Description	Default
Website URLs	One or more website URLs to scrape. Accepts domain names or full URLs.	—
Internal Pages to Scan	How many internal pages to visit per site beyond the homepage. Options: 0 (homepage only), 5, 10, 15, or 20. More pages find more contacts, each charged separately.	0
Deep Site Crawl	When enabled, also follows sub-pages discovered within internal pages (e.g. blog posts, portfolio items). Each counts toward your Internal Pages limit. Requires Internal Pages > 0.	Off
Email Domain Validation	Validates each email address by checking if its domain has active mail records and probing mailbox reachability.	Off
Platform Account Detection	Checks which digital platforms are associated with personal email addresses found on the site (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.). Corporate emails are automatically skipped.	Off
Domain Intelligence	Gathers technical intelligence per domain: detected services, registration age, SSL certificate status, and server location.	Off
Proxy Configuration	Optional proxy for scraping. Residential proxies improve success rates on bot-protected websites.	None

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What Gets Extracted

Contact Data

Emails

Raw email addresses as found on the website. Placeholder, example, and tracking addresses are filtered out automatically.

Phones (Normalized)

Phone numbers in international E.164 format (e.g. +541155978902). Regional duplicates for the same number are collapsed into one entry.

Social Media

Direct profile URLs for the following platforms (only actual profile links — share buttons and platform homepage links are excluded):

Instagram · Facebook · LinkedIn · Twitter / X · YouTube · TikTok · WhatsApp · Telegram · Pinterest · Snapchat

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Website Metadata

Field	Description
websiteTitle	Page <title> tag
websiteDescription	Meta description
websiteKeywords	Meta keywords (when present)
websiteGenerator	CMS or site builder detected (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, etc.)
internalPages	List of internal pages visited during the crawl

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Enrichment Options

Email Domain Validation

For each email found, this option runs two checks:

1. MX record check — verifies the email domain has active mail exchange records (the domain can receive email).
2. SMTP probe — attempts to verify the mailbox directly against the mail server. Not available for major freemail providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.) since they block these probes.

Each email returns:

• isFreeMail — whether it belongs to a major free provider
• provider — provider name (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, etc.)
• mxValid — whether the domain has active MX records
• smtpStatus — valid, invalid, catchall, or unknown

Freemail providers recognized: Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Yahoo, iCloud, ProtonMail, Zoho, GMX, Yandex, Mail.ru, AOL, QQ, Tutanota, Fastmail, HEY, and regional ISP providers.

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Platform Account Detection

For personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.) found on the site, this option checks which digital platforms have an account registered with that address.

• Applies only to freemail addresses — corporate domain emails are automatically skipped (marked as null).
• Each freemail email returns a platforms array with the names of platforms where the address is registered.

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Domain Intelligence

Runs a technical profile of each domain. All checks run in parallel with a combined timeout.

Field	Description
services	Business services detected via DNS records: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, HubSpot, Salesforce, Shopify, Mailchimp, Zendesk, Intercom, Stripe, and 15+ more
whoisCreated	Domain registration date (YYYY-MM-DD)
whoisAgedays	Domain age in days
registrar	Domain registrar name
serverCountry	Country where the server IP is located
sslValid	Whether the SSL certificate is currently valid
sslDaysRemaining	Days until SSL certificate expires
sslExpiry	SSL certificate expiry date
sslIssuer	Certificate authority that issued the SSL

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Output Dataset

Results are organized into three views in the Apify dataset:

Overview

A quick-scan lead card per website.

url · domain · emails · phonesNormalized · socialMedia · websiteTitle · status

Website Intel

Technical and SEO metadata about each site.

url · domain · websiteTitle · websiteDescription · websiteKeywords · websiteGenerator · internalPages

Enrichment

Validation and intelligence results (only populated when enrichment options are enabled).

url · domain · emailVerification · platformDetection · domainIntel

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Pricing

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for what you actually process.

Event	When it's charged
Website scraped	Once per URL processed (homepage)
Internal page scraped	Once per additional page visited beyond the homepage
Email verified	Once per email address run through Email Domain Validation
Platform detection	Once per freemail address run through Platform Account Detection
Domain intel	Once per domain run through Domain Intelligence

Pricing per event is listed on the actor's page. All enrichment options are off by default — enable only what you need.

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Tips & Best Practices

Getting more contacts

• Enable Internal Pages and set it to 10–20 for data-rich results. Contact and About pages are prioritized first.
• Enable Deep Site Crawl for sites that spread contact info across many sub-pages (agencies, portfolios, multi-location businesses).

Handling bot-protected sites

• Some websites block automated requests. Use the Proxy Configuration option with residential proxies for better success rates.

Freemail vs. corporate emails

• Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are great for Platform Account Detection but SMTP probing is not available for them.
• Corporate emails (name@company.com) can be SMTP-probed and are the primary target for Email Domain Validation.

Domain Intelligence for sales

• Use the services field to identify companies running HubSpot (likely have a sales team), Shopify (e-commerce), or Google Workspace (cloud-first business).
• The whoisAgedays field helps filter out very new domains (< 90 days) that may be spam or placeholder sites.

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Limitations

• Websites that require login, CAPTCHA, or JavaScript-heavy infinite scroll may not yield complete results.
• SMTP mailbox probing is blocked by major freemail providers and some corporate mail servers behind cloud gateways.
• WHOIS data availability varies by TLD and registrar — some domains return partial or no registration data.
• Platform Account Detection applies only to freemail addresses. Corporate emails return null for this field.
• Memory scales with concurrency: 512 MB processes 1 website at a time; higher memory allocations enable parallel processing (up to 5 concurrent).