Leads Finder: Public Business Contacts

Find public business contacts by city and business type, or supply a list of company website URLs. Export published business emails, phones, social links, and source pages to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

This Actor finds companies, not people. It does not use Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, private contact databases, login credentials, or guessed email addresses.

Ready-to-run examples

Open a saved example to inspect its inputs, then adjust the limits and filters for your own run. Examples are starting points; source availability can change.

• Export Chicago Dentist B2B Leads

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Quick start

{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
}

Discovery processes the supplied cities. Start with one city and split larger searches into separate runs. Supplying startUrls uses those websites instead of city discovery.

Example output

Illustrative business record; the example company and contact details are not a verified lead.

{
  "companyName": "Example Dental",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "website": "https://example.com/",
  "country": "United States",
  "sector": "dentist",
  "address": "123 Main St, Chicago, IL",
  "discoveryUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/123",
  "companyEmails": [{"email": "hello@example.com", "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/contact"}],
  "primaryEmail": "hello@example.com",
  "emailMxStatus": "mx_present",
  "phones": ["+1 555 0100"],
  "socials": {"linkedin": null, "facebook": null, "instagram": null, "twitter": null},
  "pagesScraped": ["https://example.com/", "https://example.com/contact"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-30T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Input settings

Setting	JSON key	Type / default	What it does
Business type	sector	string / not set	Business-type pattern matched against public OpenStreetMap amenity, office, shop, or craft tag values, for example dentist. This is not a universal industry directory.
Country	country	string / not set	Country used to bound OpenStreetMap city discovery.
Cities	cities	array / not set	Cities to process for public business discovery. Start with one city; split larger searches into separate runs for clearer coverage.
Public business website URLs	startUrls	array / not set	Optional direct public-site seeds. These use the independent public-site route instead of OpenStreetMap discovery.
Maximum businesses	maxLeads	integer / 5	Hard cap on unique business rows. Minimum 1; maximum 100.
Maximum public pages per site	maxPagesPerSite	integer / 2	Homepage plus same-site contact/about/team pages to inspect. Minimum 1; maximum 5.
Only keep businesses with a public email	requireEmail	boolean / true	Enabled by default so lead-discovery rows always include a visibly published public email. Disable only for public business-directory research where contact availability is optional.
Check email-domain MX	verifyMx	boolean / true	Checks whether the business domain has MX records. This is not a mailbox deliverability check.
Discovery offset	customOffset	integer / 0	Skip this many discovered businesses before processing. Use to resume a bounded batch. Minimum 0; maximum 10000.

Pricing

The start event is charged once after input validation. The item event is charged for each business record prepared for export, immediately before the row is saved. Businesses skipped before that step, including those excluded by requireEmail, are not charged as results. A run can incur its start charge even when no businesses qualify.

See the live Pricing tab for current rates and discounts. Check the cost shown for your account before scaling a run; any applicable platform usage is shown by Apify separately.

What you get

• City-bounded public business discovery
• Public website, phone, address, and source record URL
• Emails visibly published on the business website, with the page URL
• Optional domain MX status (not a mailbox deliverability claim)
• Linked business social links and fetched-page provenance

Output fields

Field	Description
companyName, domain, website, address	Public business identity fields.
country, sector	Discovery context from the requested public search.
discoveryUrl, pagesScraped	Source and public-page provenance.
companyEmails, primaryEmail	Publicly visible business email values only.
emailMxStatus	MX result for the business website domain; it does not verify an inbox or every extracted email domain.
phones, socials	Public source tags and explicitly linked profiles.
scrapedAt	UTC extraction timestamp.

Tips and limits

Start with one city and a small maximum. Not every public business has a website or publishes an email; disable requireEmail when you need a company-research list rather than an email-ready list. Public source availability can change or rate-limit requests, so valid partial results are retained with their provenance.

Who is it for?

• Local sales and outreach teams building a source-backed company list before personal contact.
• Agencies and researchers who need repeatable city-and-sector discovery with exportable provenance.
• Operations teams that already have a list of public company sites and want to collect only visible business contacts.

FAQ

What data can I export with B2B leads? Company name, public website, address, published business emails and phones, linked social profiles, and source-page provenance when available.

Can I run this B2B leads scraper through an API, schedule, or MCP client? Yes. Use the API JSON shown above, schedule the same input in Apify, or connect the MCP URL with this Actor selected.

How much does it cost to use Leads Finder: Public Business Contacts? A run-start event and each saved business are charged at the current rates in the Actor Pricing tab.

Are emails verified? No. The Actor returns only visibly public values; optional MX status only confirms a domain's mail routing.

Can it find decision makers? No. This release returns public company contacts, not person profiles or inferred titles.

Why did a company have no email? Public directories and websites do not consistently publish contact addresses. Keep requireEmail enabled to filter those rows.

Related Actors

• Google Maps Lead Finder
• Justdial Business Leads Scraper
• Website Contact Finder
• Website Social Profile Finder
• Email MX Deliverability Verifier

API usage

Use your Apify API token through the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Node.js and Python examples wait for the run and read its first dataset page; paginate the dataset for larger exports.

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('fetch_cat/leads-finder').call({
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

import json
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run_input = json.loads('''{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
}''')
run = client.actor("fetch_cat/leads-finder").call(run_input=run_input)
print(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items)

cURL

Save the quickstart JSON as input.json. This request starts a run asynchronously; use its returned run ID to check completion and its defaultDatasetId to retrieve results.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~leads-finder/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @input.json

MCP and AI agents

Use the official Apify MCP server, not a separate custom server. The focused URL below selects this Actor. Authenticate with Apify when your client prompts you; configuration syntax and OAuth support depend on the client.

Claude Code

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/leads-finder"

HTTP-capable MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/leads-finder"
    }
  }
}

Example prompt: "Find up to five dentist businesses in Chicago that publish an email. Return the company, public email, phone, and supporting source page. Do not infer personal contacts."

Use the same input keys as the input table. Review the returned source URLs and any error or availability fields before using results in an automated summary.

Support

If a run fails or output looks wrong, open an issue from the Actor page. Include the Apify run ID or run URL, non-sensitive input JSON, expected output, actual output, and one reproducible public URL (or the exact search input). Do not share tokens, cookies, passwords, or private data.