UK Business Email Finder

Find real business emails for UK companies: this actor takes UK business names and their websites from OpenStreetMap, visits each company website, and extracts the contact emails published there - every email tagged valid / risky / invalid with an MX check.

Great for B2B outreach, agency prospecting, supplier lists and CRM imports across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and the rest of the UK.

What you get

Each dataset row contains:

Field	Description
name	Business name
category	Type of business (restaurant, cafe, clinic, shop, office, ...)
email	Contact email found on the business's own website
emailStatus	valid / risky / invalid - based on an MX lookup of the email domain
phone	Business phone number, when available
website	The company website that was scanned
city	Region searched
collectedAt	Date collected

How it works

1. Queries the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (free, public) for UK businesses in your chosen region.
2. Picks businesses that have their own website (social media links like Facebook/Instagram are skipped - no emails live there).
3. Opens each website (homepage + one contact/about page) and extracts email addresses.
4. Runs an MX check on every email domain and tags it valid / risky / invalid.
5. Deduplicates by email and saves results.

Websites are scanned 8 at a time with a short stagger between different hosts, so a large run finishes in minutes; the run also stops cleanly before its own timeout instead of being killed mid-way.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
Region / city (required)	select	london	london, manchester, birmingham, leeds, glasgow, england, scotland, wales, northern-ireland
Business category	string	-	Optional filter, e.g. restaurant, cafe, clinic, school, gym, estate_agent
Max websites to visit	integer	50	How many company websites to open and scan
Verify emails (MX check)	boolean	true	Tag each email valid / risky / invalid
Only rows with email	boolean	true	Drop businesses with no email found

Example input

{
    "region": "london",
    "category": "cafe",
    "maxSites": 50,
    "verifyEmails": true,
    "onlyWithEmail": true
}

Example output

{
    "name": "The Monmouth Coffee Company",
    "category": "cafe",
    "email": "hello@monmouthcoffee.co.uk",
    "emailStatus": "valid",
    "phone": "+44 20 7379 6955",
    "website": "https://www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk/",
    "city": "London",
    "collectedAt": "2026-09-20"
}

Tips

• Not every business publishes an email on its website - typically 10-40% of scanned sites yield an email. That is normal and why we only charge for rows that have one.
• Filter by emailStatus: "valid" before outreach to remove dead domains.
• Use the category filter to build targeted lists (e.g. only cafes, only estate agents).
• City searches give focused lists; whole-country searches (england, scotland) sample broadly.
• Re-run monthly to refresh and grow the list.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per row that contains an email ($5 per 1,000 rows). Businesses with no email found cost you nothing. Apify's own actor-start event (currently $0.00005) also applies to each run.

Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly visible contact information from public business websites, with rate limiting. Please respect applicable privacy laws (e.g. UK GDPR / PECR) when using the data for outreach.