🎯 Leads Scraper — B2B Email, Phone & Decision-Maker Lead Generation by Sector + Country

Pick a sector. Pick a country. Get thousands of fresh, verified B2B leads.

Stop buying stale, recycled lead lists that everyone else already owns. Leads Scraper builds brand-new prospect lists in real time — it targets companies by industry and location, scans their websites with modern crawling technology, and extracts business emails, decision-maker names & job titles, phone numbers, postal addresses and social profiles — then verifies every email by MX. No login, no cookies, no Apollo/ZoomInfo subscription, no per-credit paywall.

The smart, affordable Apollo.io / ZoomInfo / Lusha / Hunter.io alternative for sales teams, agencies, recruiters and founders who want their own proprietary lead database — generated on demand, not rented from a shared one.

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⚡ Why Leads Scraper beats a recycled database

	Old-school lead databases	🎯 Leads Scraper
Freshness	Months/years old, dead emails	Real-time — crawled the moment you run it
Exclusivity	Sold to hundreds of competitors	Yours — built from your exact filters
Targeting	Generic firmographics	Sector + Country (and city) precision
Access	Login, cookies, export credits	None — no account, no cookies, no credits
Coverage	One region/vertical	Any industry, any country worldwide
Price	$$$$/month subscriptions	Pay only for what you scrape

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✨ What you get for every company

• ✅ Verified business emails — found on-page and validated by MX/syntax, each labeled by confidence
• ✅ Decision-maker contacts — real names + job titles (CEO, Founder, Owner, Partner, Manager…) tied to their email
• ✅ Company email pattern detection (first.last@, flast@…) for outreach at scale
• ✅ Phone numbers (normalized & de-duplicated)
• ✅ Postal address (street, city, postcode)
• ✅ Social profiles — LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), YouTube
• ✅ Company name, domain & website

All structured, all exportable to CSV, Excel, JSON, or your CRM via API/integrations.

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🚀 How it works (the engine under the hood)

Leads Scraper runs a multi-stage discovery-and-enrichment pipeline powered by custom algorithms:

1. 🎯 Intelligent targeting — you choose a sector and country (and optional cities). The Actor maps your niche to global open business datasets and the open web, fanning out across locations for maximum coverage.
2. 🌐 Modern website crawling — it visits each company's site (home, contact, about, team & individual people pages) using a fast, lightweight HTTP engine — no bloated browser, so it's cheap and scales to thousands of sites per run.
3. 🧠 Smart extraction — proprietary parsers pull emails, phones, socials and named decision-makers with titles from each page, filtering out junk, third-party and placeholder data.
4. 🔑 Email-pattern intelligence — it detects each company's email format and (optionally) reconstructs likely decision-maker emails.
5. ✔️ Verification — every email is checked for syntax and live MX records, then labeled found_mx_valid, guessed_mx_valid, etc. — so you know exactly what you're sending to.

The result: the freshest, most targeted lead list on the market — built in minutes.

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📥 Input

Just two fields to start — sector and country:

{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "Germany",
  "maxLeads": 2000
}

Field	Type	Description
sector	string	Industry/niche to target — e.g. lawyer, dentist, marketing agency, real estate, plumber, restaurant, insurance
country	string	Target country — e.g. United States, Germany, United Kingdom
cities	array	(optional) Specific cities; otherwise major cities are used automatically
maxLeads	integer	How many companies to return (scale up for thousands)
discovery	select	osm (recommended, high volume) or search (search-engine mode)
maxPagesPerSite	integer	Pages crawled per company (home + contact/about/team)
maxProfilesPerSite	integer	Individual people-profile pages to crawl (where named emails live)
requireEmail	boolean	Keep only leads with an email (default off for max volume)
guessEmails	boolean	Reconstruct likely personal emails from name + pattern (labeled guessed)
verifyEmails	boolean	MX + syntax verification (default on)
extraStartUrls	array	Skip discovery and enrich your own list of company sites

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📤 Output

One clean record per company:

{
  "companyName": "Wolf Law, LLC",
  "domain": "wolflawcolorado.com",
  "website": "https://wolflawcolorado.com/",
  "country": "United States",
  "sector": "lawyer",
  "address": "South Colorado Boulevard, 1385, Denver, 80222",
  "emailPattern": "first",
  "companyEmails": [
    { "email": "info@wolflawcolorado.com", "source": "page", "status": "found_mx_valid" }
  ],
  "persons": [
    { "name": "Jeffrey Wolf", "title": "Attorney", "email": "jeffrey@wolflawcolorado.com", "emailSource": "page", "status": "found_mx_valid" }
  ],
  "phones": ["+17207898926"],
  "socials": { "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/wolf-law" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Email status labels

Status	Meaning
found_mx_valid	Email found on the website; domain accepts mail ✅
guessed_mx_valid	Built from the company's email pattern; domain accepts mail
found / guessed	Verification turned off
no_mx	Domain has no mail server (filtered out by default)

ℹ️ ~15–28% of B2B domains are "catch-all", where individual mailboxes can't be confirmed — these stay at *_mx_valid. Pattern-built emails are always clearly labeled guessed, so you stay in control of deliverability.

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💼 Use cases

• Cold email & outbound sales — fresh, targeted prospect lists for your SDRs
• Local lead generation — find every dentist, lawyer, plumber, agency in a city/country
• Agency lead gen — build client prospect lists on demand
• Recruiting — source companies and decision-makers in any niche
• Market research & TAM mapping — map an entire industry in a region
• CRM enrichment — feed verified emails, phones & addresses into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive
• Direct mail & telemarketing — high address & phone coverage even where email is scarce

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🌍 Works for any industry, any country

Lawyers, dentists, doctors, accountants, insurance agencies, real estate, marketing & advertising agencies, software companies, consultants, architects, restaurants, hotels, plumbers, electricians, salons, gyms, pharmacies, car dealers, financial advisors — and hundreds more — across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and worldwide.

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❓ FAQ

Is this a free Apollo.io alternative? Yes — it generates B2B leads (emails, phones, decision-makers) without an Apollo, ZoomInfo or Lusha account, no cookies, and no export credits. You only pay for your Apify usage.

Do I need to log in to any website? No. There are no logins, no cookies and no captchas to solve.

How fresh is the data? 100% real-time. Every lead is crawled live at the moment you run the Actor — never a recycled list.

Can I export to CSV / Excel / Google Sheets / my CRM? Yes — export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS, or push straight to your stack via the Apify API & integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Make, Zapier, n8n…).

Will every company have an email? No — coverage depends on the niche and how each business publishes its data. Some return rich email + decision-maker data, others only phone + address. Turn requireEmail on to keep only email-bearing leads, or off for maximum volume.

Can I scrape thousands of leads in one run? Yes. Increase maxLeads — the engine scales to thousands of companies per run.

Is web scraping legal? The Actor collects publicly available business information. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM and other applicable regulations and the target sites' terms.

Is this an Apollo.io / ZoomInfo alternative without a subscription?

Yes. It builds your own B2B lead list with verified emails, phones and decision-maker names — no Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha or Hunter account, no login and no export credits. You pay only for your Apify usage.

How do I scrape business emails by industry and country?

Set a sector (e.g. dentist, lawyer) and a country, then run. The Actor targets matching companies, crawls their sites and extracts verified business emails by sector + country — no API key required.

How do I export verified business leads to CSV or JSON?

Every run's dataset exports straight to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or RSS, or pushes to your CRM via the Apify API and integrations — a ready-made B2B email list builder with no login.

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🏷️ Tips for best results

• Start with maxLeads: 100 to preview quality, then scale up.
• Use specific sectors (personal injury lawyer beats lawyer) for sharper targeting.
• Enable Apify Proxy for large runs.
• Pick email-rich verticals (agencies, law firms, insurance) when you need maximum named-contact emails; expect more phone/address than email in trades & local services.

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Ready to build your own lead database? Hit ▶️ Run and pick your sector + country.

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Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Apollo.io alternative without subscription, scraping business emails by industry + country, and exporting verified leads to CSV/JSON.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

• 2026-06-01 — Maintenance & reliability pass: pulled the latest source and rebuilt the Actor on the current base image; build verified.

• 2026-05-25 — Maintenance & reliability pass: pulled the latest source and rebuilt the Actor on the current base image; build verified.

Last reviewed: 2026-06-01.

📝 Changelog

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.