LinkedIn Email Finder

Find the most likely work email from a LinkedIn profile URL — public data, no cookies, no login.

Give it a LinkedIn profile URL (or a name + company domain). It resolves the person's name and current company, looks up the company's website domain, generates the most likely email patterns, and validates each against the live mail server (DNS MX + best-effort SMTP) before returning the highest-confidence address with a transparent score.

Deliverability check: every returned email is confirmed to have a working mail server (MX). When the run network permits an outbound SMTP probe, the mailbox itself is verified (emailStatus: valid). On clouds that block outbound port 25 (most, including Apify), the top-ranked pattern is returned as mx_valid_unverified with a confidence score instead — honestly labeled, never faked.

Built for SDRs, recruiters, and AI agents that have a LinkedIn URL and need a reachable email.

What you get

Field	Description
name	Person's full name (from public LinkedIn profile)
company	Current company name
companyDomain	Resolved company website domain (e.g. shopify.com)
email	Best deliverable work email
emailStatus	valid · mx_valid_unverified · catch_all · invalid · no_mx · profile_not_found
confidence	0–100 score from verification result + pattern probability
smtpVerified	true when the mailbox was confirmed by an SMTP RCPT probe
isRole	true if the address is a role inbox (info@, sales@…)
candidates	All tested patterns with their individual status + confidence
source	scrapecreators, sociavault, or direct

When to use it

• You have LinkedIn profile URLs and need verified work emails for outreach.
• You already know a name + company domain and just want pattern generation + SMTP verification.
• An AI agent needs a single tool: profile URL in → verified email out.

Not for: scraping a private email off LinkedIn (LinkedIn does not expose it, and neither does this actor). Emails here are derived from the public name + company domain and then verified for deliverability — the same method as Hunter, Apollo, and other finders.

How it works

1. Resolve profile — ScrapeCreators /v1/linkedin/profile (SociaVault fallback) → name + current company.
2. Resolve domain — ScrapeCreators /v1/linkedin/company → company website → domain.
3. Generate — ~15 ranked permutations (first.last, f.last, first, …).
4. Validate — DNS MX lookup (drops domains with no mail server) → best-effort SMTP RCPT TO probe with catch-all detection. The probe stops early as soon as a mailbox is confirmed; when port 25 is blocked it is skipped and the MX result stands.
5. Score + return — the highest-confidence email, plus every candidate tested and its individual status.

The company domain is reduced to its registrable root (e.g. news.microsoft.com → microsoft.com) so the mail-server check runs against the real email domain.

Input

{
  "linkedinUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella"
  ],
  "includeUnverified": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Or skip LinkedIn entirely:

{
  "directLeads": [
    { "fullName": "Jane Doe", "companyDomain": "acme.com", "companyName": "Acme" }
  ]
}

Output

{
  "name": "Satya Nadella",
  "company": "Microsoft",
  "companyDomain": "microsoft.com",
  "email": "satya.nadella@microsoft.com",
  "emailStatus": "valid",
  "confidence": 96,
  "smtpVerified": true,
  "isRole": false,
  "candidates": [
    { "email": "satya.nadella@microsoft.com", "status": "valid", "confidence": 96, "pattern": "{first}.{last}" }
  ],
  "source": "scrapecreators"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.00005
Profile resolved (name + company domain)	$0.02
Email found (deliverable email returned)	$0.04

Typical lead with a found email: ~$0.06. You are not charged the email event when no deliverable address is produced.

Companion actors

• linkedin-profile-search-scraper — find profile URLs to feed this actor.
• email-address-validator — bulk-validate an existing email list.
• linkedin-profile-email-scraper — pull on-profile contact fields when present.

Legal

Returns only public data and standards-based mail-server verification. No login, no cookies, no private LinkedIn fields. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CCPA) and LinkedIn's terms. Email patterns are predictions verified for deliverability, not data extracted from a private source.