# Website Contact Extractor (`metal_spinney/website-contact-extractor`) Actor

Paste a list of company websites and get emails (incl. Cloudflare-obfuscated), phone numbers, social links, contact page URL and contact-form flag. Crawls only home + contact/about/team pages and obeys robots.txt.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/metal_spinney/website-contact-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Open Registry Data](https://apify.com/metal_spinney) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Website Contact Extractor: emails, phones & social links from any list of domains

Give it a list of company websites (or bare domains) and get back, per website: **emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn / X (Twitter) / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / TikTok / GitHub / Pinterest links, the contact page URL and whether it has a contact form.**

- **Smart, small crawl**: home page + the pages most likely to hold contacts (contact, about, team, impressum/imprint, legal, support), up to 5 pages by default.
- **Finds hidden emails**: `mailto:` links, plain text and Cloudflare-obfuscated (`data-cfemail`) addresses; phones from `tel:` links and schema.org data.
- **Polite & compliant**: obeys every site's robots.txt (if robots.txt itself errors with 5xx/429 the site is skipped, per RFC 9309), no proxies, no logins, no form submission.
- **Respects your budget**: if your max cost per run is reached, the run stops crawling immediately, says so in the status message, and saves the websites it did not process to the `UNPROCESSED_WEBSITES` record so you can rerun just those.
- **Polite by design**: obeys robots.txt and crawls only a handful of likely contact pages per domain.

### Output (one row per website)

`input, domain, url, companyName, emails[], phones[], contactPageUrl, contactFormFound, linkedin, twitter, facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok, github, pinterest, pagesCrawled, blockedByRobots, status, error, scrapedAt`

```json
{"domain":"plausible.io","companyName":"Plausible Analytics","emails":["hello@plausible.io"],"phones":[],
 "contactPageUrl":"https://plausible.io/contact","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/plausible-analytics",
 "twitter":"https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ","pagesCrawled":4,"status":"ok"}
```

Local test, 25 Oct 2026: 20 websites in 25 s, emails on 12, at least one contact channel on 18.

### Use cases

Enrich Google Maps / directory / CRM exports that only have a website column; build partner and supplier lists; find the right support or press address; dedupe leads by domain.

### Input

- `websites`: list of domains or URLs
- `maxPagesPerWebsite` (1-20, default 5)
- `onlySameDomainEmails`: drop gmail/agency addresses
- `maxConcurrency` (default 10)

### Pricing

Free to use for now: you only pay Apify's normal platform usage for the run. Pay-per-event pricing may be added later, with Apify's standard advance notice.

### Responsible use

This tool reads publicly published business contact details. You are responsible for how you use them: follow anti-spam and privacy law (CAN-SPAM, GDPR/ePrivacy, Australia's Spam Act) in your jurisdiction.

*By Open Registry Data.*

# Actor input Schema

## `websites` (type: `array`):

One per line: 'acme.com', 'https://www.acme.com', etc. Each website is processed once (home page plus likely contact pages).

## `maxPagesPerWebsite` (type: `integer`):

Home page + contact/about/team/impressum/support pages, up to this many (1-20).

## `onlySameDomainEmails` (type: `boolean`):

Drop emails on other domains (e.g. agency or gmail addresses).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many websites are crawled in parallel. Lower it to be gentler on slow sites; the default suits most lists.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "apify.com",
    "basecamp.com",
    "https://www.mailerlite.com"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerWebsite": 5,
  "onlySameDomainEmails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `resultsView` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `unprocessed` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "websites": [
        "apify.com",
        "basecamp.com",
        "https://www.mailerlite.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("metal_spinney/website-contact-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 = { "websites": [
        "apify.com",
        "basecamp.com",
        "https://www.mailerlite.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("metal_spinney/website-contact-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 '{
  "websites": [
    "apify.com",
    "basecamp.com",
    "https://www.mailerlite.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call metal_spinney/website-contact-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,metal_spinney/website-contact-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/OIpkzQ0y9cS7zJKt2/builds/8drCs0wugODP0Pkjc/openapi.json