# Website Lead Extractor - Emails, Phones & Social Profiles (`m_ctim/website-lead-extractor`) Actor

Crawl a company website and extract publicly listed emails, phone numbers, and social profile links (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub) as clean JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/website-lead-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Website Lead Extractor — Emails, Phones & Social Profiles

[![Built with Crawlee](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20with-Crawlee-blueviolet)](https://crawlee.dev)
[![Runs on Apify](https://img.shields.io/badge/runs%20on-Apify-00A98F)](https://apify.com)

Give it a company website. It crawls the site (within the same domain, up to a
configurable depth) and returns every publicly listed email address, phone
number, and social profile link (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
GitHub) it finds, as clean JSON.

Built for sales teams, recruiters, and researchers who need contact info from
a list of company sites without manually opening each "Contact" or "About"
page.

> **Status:** live on Apify, pending public Store listing approval. Code and
> README here are the source of truth in the meantime.

### Run it

Via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) (once the Store listing is
approved, this works for anyone with an Apify account):

```bash
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/website-lead-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com" }],
    "maxDepth": 1,
    "maxPagesPerDomain": 20
  }'
```

Or clone this repo and run it locally with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli):

```bash
git clone https://github.com/timmKal01/website-lead-extractor.git
cd website-lead-extractor
npm install
apify run
```

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | array of URLs | Website(s) to scan. |
| `maxDepth` | integer (default `1`) | How many link-hops from each start URL to follow within the same domain, e.g. to reach a Contact page. |
| `maxPagesPerDomain` | integer (default `20`) | Safety cap on pages visited per domain. |

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com" }],
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 20
}
```

### Output

One record per page where contact info was found:

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/contact",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "emails": ["hello@example.com"],
  "phones": ["+1 415-555-0132"],
  "socialProfiles": {
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/example",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/example"
  }
}
```

### How it works

Plain HTTP crawl via [Crawlee](https://crawlee.dev)'s `CheerioCrawler` — no
headless browser, no proxy. It reads only what's already rendered in the raw
HTML response, so it works on static/server-rendered sites; heavily
JS-rendered sites may need a browser-based crawler instead.

### Notes

- Only extracts information the site itself publishes publicly (e.g. a
  "Contact us" page) — it does not access anything gated behind a login.
- Respects a per-domain page cap so it won't run away on large sites.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more website URLs to scan for contact info (e.g. company homepages).

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

How many link-hops from each start URL to follow within the same domain (e.g. to reach a Contact or About page). 0 = only scan the start URL itself.

## `maxPagesPerDomain` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on how many pages to visit per start domain.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 20
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apify.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/website-lead-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/website-lead-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call m_ctim/website-lead-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/website-lead-extractor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/e7RxKjdnOnce9JuLT/builds/5paoH8NsplSAqXbKX/openapi.json