Touch Local Email Scraper

Touch Local Email Scraper - public business contact emails from touchlocal.com

The Touch Local Email Scraper collects publicly indexed contact emails that appear in Google search results for touchlocal.com. Touch Local is a UK business directory where small firms, shops and tradespeople publish a listing so that local customers can find and contact them.

The honest headline comes first, before any of the good news. Touch Local has a small and ageing indexed footprint, so expect low volume. That is a property of the platform's presence in Google, not of the extraction pipeline.

What the Touch Local Email Scraper does exceptionally well is convert the pages that do exist. On the listings Google holds, both identity resolution and email extraction perform near the top of this whole Actor family.

The result is a small, unusually clean UK dataset. Local-services agencies, SMB SaaS vendors and franchise development teams working British towns are the people it fits.

A measured live result, stated plainly

A live Google run of the Touch Local Email Scraper returned 10 result blocks, 10 rows with account identity, 10 resolvable profile URLs and 9 unique emails. Those are observed figures.

Nine unique emails from ten blocks, with complete identity coverage, is one of the best per-page conversion rates measured across these directories. Touch Local listings tend to carry a business description alongside the contact line, which is exactly what a snippet-level extractor needs.

The constraint is not the hit rate. It is how many touchlocal.com pages Google currently holds, and that number is modest.

Features of the Touch Local Email Scraper

Every feature below is genuinely implemented. Nothing here is aspirational.

Feature	What it means in practice
Google SERP parsing	Reads Google result pages through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy. No browser, no JavaScript rendering
Structural block detection	Locates the <h3> title, then the smallest surrounding block. Does not depend on Google's CSS class names
Domain filter	Only emails ending in one of your customDomains values are kept
Query expansion	Base, quoted, intitle: and one variant per query modifier. Base queries run first
Global deduplication	An email seen once is never pushed twice, across every query and every page
Email normalisation	Understands name [at] domain [dot] com, name (at) domain, name @ domain.com, domain .com, zero-width characters and the full-width ＠ sign
Junk filter	Rejects placeholders such as email@, yourname@, test@, xxx@ and single-character locals
Boundary-correct matching	@gmail.com does not match inside @gmail.company or @gmail.com.br
Soft-wrap repair	Drops a hit that is only the tail of another email in the same block
Concurrency	An asyncio worker pool with a shared stop signal on maxEmails
Retries	Up to 3 attempts per page, exponential backoff, a fresh proxy session per request
Block detection	CAPTCHA, "unusual traffic" and consent pages are detected and retried, not counted as empty
Re-queueing	Blocked or failed queries are retried once at the end of the run
Resumable run	State is stored in the key-value store, keyed by a hash of the input, and saved on PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING
Fallback parser	If Google's markup changes, the run degrades to "emails without account details" rather than "no emails"
Run summary	Logs pages fetched, blocked pages, retries and emails per page
Dataset output	Rows push immediately and export to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML from the Apify dataset

None of those features change the underlying arithmetic. The Touch Local Email Scraper is careful and resilient, but it is still bounded by how much of touchlocal.com sits in Google's index.

Query expansion is the feature that matters most on a small index. Running many variants is the only reliable way to reach its edges.

How the Touch Local Email Scraper works

The pipeline is six steps and there is nothing hidden inside it.

1. It reads your input: keywords, location, email domains and limits.
2. It builds Google search queries with the site: operator against touchlocal.com, for example site:touchlocal.com local business "@gmail.com" "Bristol".
3. It fetches Google result pages through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy using aiohttp, asynchronously.
4. It parses each result block structurally, finding the <h3> title and the smallest block around it.
5. It extracts emails from that block's text with a domain-filtered regex.
6. It deduplicates globally and pushes each lead straight into the Apify dataset.

The Touch Local Email Scraper does not log into Touch Local, does not use any Touch Local API, and does not open the directory in a browser. Every field comes from publicly indexed Google search results - titles, snippets and site labels, with no authentication and no cookies.

Who the Touch Local Email Scraper is built for

This is a UK local business Actor, aimed at people who sell services to small British firms rather than at industrial buyers.

Local-services agencies use it to build outreach lists for web design, SEO, print and signage across a town or county. SMB SaaS vendors use it to reach owner-run shops, salons and trades that still work from paper.

Franchise development teams use it to find independent operators in a category worth converting. Payment and POS providers use it to approach retail and hospitality businesses in a chosen high street.

Because the footprint is modest, treat the Touch Local Email Scraper as a supplementary source. It pairs naturally with Scoot Email Scraper, which covers a sibling UK directory, and with Fyple Email Scraper for wider multi-country reach.

Input fields for the Touch Local Email Scraper

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
keywords	array (required)	["local business", "tradesman"]	Search terms - niche, job title, industry
location	string	""	Optional location phrase added to every query
customDomains	array	["@gmail.com", "@yahoo.com"]	Only emails on these domains are kept; the @ is optional
maxEmails	integer 1-10000	20	Stop after this many unique emails
countryCode	string	""	Two-letter country for the search proxy (US, GB, DE...)
expandQueries	boolean	true	Search each keyword x domain pair in several phrasings
queryModifiers	array	["email", "contact", "enquiries", "owner", "get a quote"]	Extra words combined with each keyword when expansion is on
maxPagesPerQuery	integer 1-50	30	Page cap per query
maxConcurrency	integer 1-20	5	Parallel queries

How the Touch Local Email Scraper input fields actually behave

customDomains is the highest-leverage field, because the two webmail defaults miss much of how UK small businesses keep their mail. Add @btinternet.com, @sky.com, @virginmedia.com, @hotmail.co.uk, @yahoo.co.uk and @live.co.uk.

keywords should name a trade or a shop type. hairdresser, dry cleaners, builder, cafe, letting agent and mobile mechanic all match the Touch Local index far better than the broad defaults.

location narrows to a town, borough or county and is worth setting on nearly every run. UK directories are organised around place, so "Bristol", "Croydon" or "Hampshire" reshapes results considerably.

queryModifiers only fire when expandQueries is true. The defaults enquiries, owner and get a quote are tuned to local listing text, where those exact phrases appear next to a published address.

maxEmails is a hard stop shared across the worker pool; set it generously so a run on a small index explores every expanded query. maxConcurrency and maxPagesPerQuery trade speed against politeness, and 5 and 30 are sensible defaults.

JSON input example for the Touch Local Email Scraper

{
  "keywords": ["hairdresser", "builder", "letting agent"],
  "location": "Bristol",
  "customDomains": ["@gmail.com", "@yahoo.co.uk", "@btinternet.com", "@sky.com", "@live.co.uk"],
  "maxEmails": 100,
  "countryCode": "GB",
  "expandQueries": true,
  "queryModifiers": ["email", "contact", "enquiries", "owner", "get a quote"],
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

The UK webmail domains carry that example. @btinternet.com, @sky.com and @live.co.uk are common in British high-street listings and none of them are in the default filter.

That is a realistic configuration for the Touch Local Email Scraper: three trades, one city, GB as the country code, and a domain filter that matches how UK owner-operators actually receive mail.

Output fields of the Touch Local Email Scraper

Every dataset item carries all fourteen fields.

Field	Meaning
network	Platform name
keyword	The keyword that produced the lead
query	The exact Google query used
title	Raw result title
accountName	Account label Google prints
fullName	Display name parsed from a profile-style title; empty for non-profile results
username	URL-safe handle when the platform exposes one; otherwise null
profileUrl	Canonical account URL when a handle is known; otherwise empty
url	Direct platform link when exposed, else the profile URL
description	Bio or snippet text, cleaned of labels and counters
email	Lower-cased email address
emailDomain	The matched domain, for example @gmail.com
possiblyTruncated	true when Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email - verify before sending
foundAt	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

On Touch Local, username and profileUrl are populated on essentially every row because listing pages carry a stable slug. The Touch Local Email Scraper builds the canonical link as https://www.touchlocal.com/{username}.

The description field is unusually useful on this platform, since listings often include an owner-written blurb. Check possiblyTruncated before sending; when it is true, Google's ellipsis may have clipped the address.

JSON output example from the Touch Local Email Scraper

[
  {
    "network": "Touch Local",
    "keyword": "hairdresser",
    "query": "site:touchlocal.com hairdresser contact \"@btinternet.com\" \"Bristol\"",
    "title": "Clifton Cuts Hair Studio - Bristol - Touch Local",
    "accountName": "Clifton Cuts Hair Studio",
    "fullName": "Clifton Cuts Hair Studio",
    "username": "clifton-cuts-hair-studio-bristol",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.touchlocal.com/clifton-cuts-hair-studio-bristol",
    "url": "https://www.touchlocal.com/clifton-cuts-hair-studio-bristol",
    "description": "Unisex salon in Clifton offering cuts, colour and bridal styling. Bookings by phone or email.",
    "email": "cliftoncuts@btinternet.com",
    "emailDomain": "@btinternet.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": false,
    "foundAt": "2026-08-29T17:20:15Z"
  },
  {
    "network": "Touch Local",
    "keyword": "letting agent",
    "query": "site:touchlocal.com letting agent \"get a quote\" \"@gmail.com\" \"Bristol\"",
    "title": "Harbourside Lettings - Bristol - Touch Local",
    "accountName": "Harbourside Lettings",
    "fullName": "Harbourside Lettings",
    "username": "harbourside-lettings-bristol",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.touchlocal.com/harbourside-lettings-bristol",
    "url": "https://www.touchlocal.com/harbourside-lettings-bristol",
    "description": "Residential lettings and property management across central Bristol. Landlord enquiries welcome.",
    "email": "harboursidelettings@gmail.com",
    "emailDomain": "@gmail.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": true,
    "foundAt": "2026-08-29T17:21:52Z"
  }
]

Both rows carry a clean handle and a readable description, which is the normal shape here. Per-record quality is the strength of the Touch Local Email Scraper; record count is not.

Use cases for the Touch Local Email Scraper

Audience	What they do with the data
UK local-services agencies	Build outreach lists for web design, SEO, print or signage in a town or borough
SMB SaaS vendors	Reach owner-run shops, salons and trades still working from paper
Franchise development teams	Identify independent operators worth converting to a franchise model
Payment and POS providers	Approach retail and hospitality businesses on a chosen high street
Field sales teams	Plan territory coverage across a UK region before working a route
Insurance and finance brokers	Prospect sole traders by trade and postcode area
Trade suppliers and merchants	Reach builders and contractors who buy materials locally
Local data researchers	Sample how UK high-street businesses publish contact routes

Each of those targets a business inbox that an owner published in a directory so customers could get in touch. That is the honest boundary of what the Touch Local Email Scraper does.

Targeting tips for the Touch Local Email Scraper

location and countryCode are both real levers, and on a UK-only directory they are close to mandatory.

Set countryCode to GB so the search proxy uses the UK view. Leaving it blank makes the Touch Local Email Scraper compete against international results that have nothing to do with British high streets.

Set location to a town, borough or county rather than "UK". The directory is organised around place, so "Croydon", "Bristol" or "Hampshire" reaches genuinely different listings.

On a small index, breadth of vocabulary beats depth of paging. Twenty specific trade and shop types will out-produce two generic keywords, and the owner and get a quote modifiers land on the exact listing text where addresses sit.

For wider coverage, pair it with Scoot Email Scraper from the same UK directory network, then widen further with Cybo Email Scraper or Lacartes Email Scraper.

Limitations of the Touch Local Email Scraper

Read all of these before your first run.

• Touch Local has a small and ageing indexed footprint, so expect low volume. Conversion per page is excellent; the number of pages is the constraint.
• Because listings can be old, some addresses may no longer be monitored. Verify before running a campaign on them.
• The Touch Local Email Scraper only finds addresses that are publicly visible in Google's index. Anything Google has not indexed is invisible to it.
• Google caps a single query at roughly 300 results, which is exactly why query expansion exists and defaults to on.
• possiblyTruncated: true means Google's snippet ellipsis may have cut the email short. Verify it before sending.
• It requires the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy and cannot run without Apify proxy credentials.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 100 emails per run; paid plans are uncapped. Here the platform's footprint usually binds before the plan cap does.
• username and profileUrl are only populated when Google exposes a handle. Touch Local almost always does, but rows from category or search pages can still arrive with username: null and an empty profileUrl. That is a Google limitation, not a bug.
• Results vary with keywords, domains and location. No volume is guaranteed by the Touch Local Email Scraper or by any Actor in this family.

Responsible use of Touch Local Email Scraper output

The addresses the Touch Local Email Scraper surfaces are business contacts that owners published in a UK directory so that customers could reach them. Treat them as exactly that.

UK GDPR and PECR both apply, and a sole trader's address counts as personal data. Record your legitimate interest, identify yourself and your company in the first line, and keep the message clearly relevant to that business.

Honour opt-outs immediately and permanently, keep your list current, and follow UK marketing rules including any preference-service screening that applies to you. Do not use this output for bulk unsolicited mail.

FAQ about the Touch Local Email Scraper

How many results should I expect from the Touch Local Email Scraper?

Fewer than from most Actors in this family, because Touch Local has a small and ageing indexed footprint. A live Google run returned 10 result blocks, 10 identified accounts, 10 profile URLs and 9 unique emails - outstanding per-page conversion, but a limited pool of pages. Run many specific trade keywords and expect a small, clean dataset.

Why is the footprint described as ageing?

Touch Local is a long-established UK directory and part of its indexed content is older listings. Some contact details may therefore be out of date, so verification before outreach is sensible.

How does it differ from the Scoot Email Scraper?

They cover sibling UK directories in the same network. In the measured runs Touch Local converted slightly better on emails, 9 against 8, with identical identity coverage. Running both is the sensible approach for UK work.

Does the Touch Local Email Scraper log into Touch Local or use its API?

No. It builds Google site:touchlocal.com queries, fetches result pages through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy and parses them. There is no browser, no login, no API and no cookies.

Why do nearly all rows have a working profile URL?

Because Touch Local listing pages carry a stable slug that Google prints. The Touch Local Email Scraper derives username from it and builds profileUrl as https://www.touchlocal.com/{username}.

What is the fastest way to increase Touch Local Email Scraper yield?

Add UK webmail domains to customDomains and run many specific trade keywords instead of two generic ones. @btinternet.com, @sky.com and @yahoo.co.uk are the most productive additions.

Should I set countryCode?

Yes, to GB. Touch Local is a UK-only directory and the UK proxy view materially improves what the Touch Local Email Scraper finds.

Why does the Touch Local Email Scraper turn expandQueries on by default?

Google caps one query at roughly 300 results. Expansion runs base, quoted and intitle: variants plus one per modifier, which matters even more when the index is small. Base queries always run first.

Can I run the Touch Local Email Scraper on a free Apify plan?

Yes. Free plans are capped at 100 emails per run, which on the Touch Local Email Scraper is usually above what the platform's footprint will produce anyway. Paid plans are uncapped.

What happens if a Touch Local Email Scraper run is interrupted?

State is saved in the key-value store, keyed by a hash of your input, and written on Apify's PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING events. Restarting with the same input resumes rather than starting over.

Which export formats does the Touch Local Email Scraper support?

Anything the Apify dataset supports - CSV, JSON, Excel and XML - plus the API for pushing rows straight into a CRM.

Is the Touch Local Email Scraper affiliated with Touch Local?

No. It is an independent Actor that reads publicly indexed Google results, with no relationship to or endorsement from the platform.

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