Email Extractor

Email Extractor is an Apify Actor that finds and collects email addresses from web pages you provide, with an option to follow links and discover more emails.

🎯 Why extract emails?

Use cases include:

• Lead generation and outreach lists
• Finding contact emails for support, press, or careers pages
• Verifying public contact details across a site
• Compliance and due‑diligence checks

✨ What can Email Extractor do?

This Actor:

• Crawls your provided URLs and optionally follows links discovered on those pages
• Extracts emails from full page HTML (not just visible text)
• Validates the email domain TLD against the official IANA list for better accuracy
• Deduplicates results across the whole run
• Records both the page where an email was found and the original source URL you submitted

🚀 How to run

Run on Apify Console:

1. Create a free Apify account: https://console.apify.com/sign-up
2. Click “Try for free” on this actor
3. Fill the input (see example below)
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish
5. Download results (JSON, CSV, Excel) from the Dataset tab

💡 Output data

Each dataset item contains:

Field	Description
email	The extracted email address
url	Page URL where the email was found
sourceUrl	One of your input URLs from which this crawl originated

Output example

{
    "email": "hello@apify.com",
    "url": "https://apify.com/resources/nonprofits",
    "sourceUrl": "https://apify.com"
}

📥 Input

The Actor accepts these input parameters:

• urls (array, required): One or more page URLs to scan
• crawl (boolean, optional, default: true): Follow links discovered on the provided pages to find more emails

Input example

{
    "urls": [
        "https://apify.com"
    ],
    "crawl": true
}

💰 How much does it cost to extract emails?

This actor is extremly cost-effective. Check the "Pricing" tab for more details.

With Apify's free tier, you get $5 of platform credits monthly for free, which you can use to test this actor for free.

Do you need to scrape more? Upgrade to a paid plan which includes more platform credits and discounted pricing.

Tip 1: Provide multiple URLs in your input, that way you only pay the actor start cost once.

Tip 2: If you are doing a large run, consider increasing the RAM used per run to scrape faster. When doing a small run decrease the RAM used to reduce the actor start costs.

Tip 3: Upgrade to a higher plan to get discounted pricing. Link: https://apify.com/pricing

🔗 Integrations

This Actor integrates seamlessly with:

• Automation platforms - Build no code workflows with Make.com, n8n, and Zapier
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when scraping completes through webhooks
• Schedulers - Run daily/weekly to track group growth with Apify's Scheduler
• API - Start runs and access data programmatically with the Apify API
• Google Sheets - Export directly to spreadsheets

👥 Who made this Actor?

Gordian is a specialised Apify web scraping agency founded by Louis Deconinck.

Louis is a top 1% Apify developer, Oxford University IT graduate, and creator of 70+ scrapers used by 1,000+ data professionals every month. He has scraped 10,000,000+ pages bypassing the most advanced anti-scraping protections.

• Apify AI Agent Hackathon Winner
• 300+ contributions in Apify Discord
• Former senior data engineer in EU banking

Looking for a custom data solution? Get in touch.

❓ FAQ

Do you validate emails?

We validate the top‑level domain against the official IANA list, deduplicate results and verify correct syntax.

Is it legal to scrape emails?

Yes, web scraping publicly available data is legal. This scraper only extracts information that is publicly visible.

For more information on web scraping legality, read this blog post: Is web scraping legal?

Can I export data to CSV or Excel?

Yes, Apify supports exporting dataset results in multiple formats: JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), HTML, XML and RSS.

How do I get started?

Make a free Apify account to claim your free $5 usage and start scraping today by clicking "Try for free".