# Website Mail Extractor (`mikolabs/website-mail-extractor`) Actor

Website Email Scraper is a powerful, lightweight, and stealthy web crawler designed to find and extract public email addresses from any website. Simply provide a list of starting URLs, and the scraper will follow internal links, prioritize key pages, and return a clean list of deduplicated emails.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mikolabs/website-mail-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [mikolabs](https://apify.com/mikolabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 email enrichments

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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?

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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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

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# README

## Website Email Scraper

Website Email Scraper is a powerful, lightweight, and stealthy web crawler designed to find and extract public email addresses from any website. Simply provide a list of starting URLs, and the scraper will follow internal links, prioritize key pages, and return a clean list of deduplicated emails.

### ✅ Key Features
- **SPA-Ready (React, Vue, Angular):** Scrapes modern Single Page Applications (SPAs) by scanning local JavaScript script assets for hidden contact emails.
- **Sitemap XML Support:** Automatically discovers and parses the website's `sitemap.xml` for lightning-fast page indexing.
- **Stealth Mode & Anti-Blocking:** Built-in concurrency control, randomized user-agents, and Apify Proxy support to keep your scraper undetected.
- **Smart Priority Routing:** Targets high-value contact pages (like `/contact`, `/about`, `/team`) first to save crawl time.
- **Blog & Media Filters:** Automatically skips irrelevant blog directories and large media assets to maximize efficiency and control costs.
- **Deduplication:** Automatically dedupes email addresses across the entire run to prevent duplicate charges and messy datasets.

### 🏆 Benefits
- **Effortless Lead Generation:** Turn a list of company websites into verified prospect contact details in seconds.
- **High Deliverability:** Every email includes the exact source URL where it was found, allowing easy QA and highly personalized outreach.
- **Unbeatable Cost Control:** Because it uses direct HTTP crawling instead of heavy browser instances, compute unit consumption is extremely minimal, costing under $0.05 per 1,000 crawled pages.

### 💳 Pricing
This Actor uses the **Pay-per-event** pricing model. You are billed only for successful results:
- **$3.00 USD per 1,000 unique emails** ($0.003 USD per email).
- Deduplication is run-wide; you are **never charged twice** for the same email address in a single run.
- If a run extracts 0 emails, you pay nothing.

### 🚀 Quick start
1. Go to the **Input** tab in the Apify Console.
2. Enter one or more website URLs in the **Seed URLs** field.
3. Configure the optional boundaries (like **Max emails to scrape** or **Max pages per seed**).
4. Select your **Proxy configuration** (Apify US/Residential proxy is recommended).
5. Click **Start** to run the scraper and download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML format once the run completes.

### ⚙️ How it works
Under the hood, the scraper performs the following steps:
1. **Sitemap Discovery:** First, it attempts to fetch the website's XML sitemap to immediately identify all key pages.
2. **Page Crawling:** Starting from your seed URLs, it crawls internal pages up to your configured crawl depth.
3. **Keyword Prioritizing:** It scores page paths using contact-related keywords so that pages containing `/contact`, `/about`, or `/team` are visited first.
4. **Email Extraction:** It searches for plain-text email addresses, `mailto:` anchor tags, HTML-obfuscated entities, and scans local JS resource bundles to locate emails in dynamic components.
5. **Deduplication & Output:** Found emails are normalized, cleaned of CDNs/spam domains/fake placeholders, deduplicated, and appended to the dataset with their corresponding seed and discovery URLs.

### 📊 Output
All scraped emails are saved in a structured dataset, available for download in CSV, JSON, XML, or Excel.

#### Example JSON output item:
```json
{
    "email": "contact@example.com",
    "pageUrl": "https://example.com/about-us",
    "seedUrl": "https://example.com"
}
````

#### Output Fields:

| Field Name | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `email` | String | The normalized and cleaned email address. |
| `pageUrl` | String | The exact webpage URL where this email address was discovered. |
| `seedUrl` | String | The initial seed URL entered in the input from which the crawl started. |

### 🛠️ Input Parameters

You can configure the scraper with the following fields:

| Field Name | Type | Description | Default / Empty Behavior |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `urls` | Array of Objects | **Required.** List of website URLs to crawl (e.g. `[{"url": "https://example.com"}]`). | Must contain at least 1 URL. |
| `deepSearch` | Boolean | Optional. If enabled, crawls deep into the website structure. If disabled, only crawls the main page and high-priority pages (e.g. contact, about, team). | Default is `false` (highly cost-effective). |
| `maxEmailsToScrape` | Integer | Optional. Stop the run after finding this many unique emails across all seeds. | `0` or empty crawls until finished. |
| `maxCrawlDepth` | Integer | Optional. Link-hops from the seed URL. Depth 1 crawls only the seed page. | Default is `3`. Max is `6`. |
| `maxPagesPerSeed` | Integer | Optional. Maximum number of pages the scraper will visit per seed URL to control costs. | Default is `50`. Max is `1000`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | Optional. Select proxies to bypass blocking. US/Residential proxies are recommended. | Enabled by default. |

#### Example Input configuration:

```json
{
    "urls": [
        { "url": "https://example.com" }
    ],
    "maxEmailsToScrape": 20,
    "maxCrawlDepth": 2,
    "maxPagesPerSeed": 30,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
}
```

### 🔍 Error Handling & Ignored Resources

- **Skipping Bad URLs:** Malformed URL entries are automatically detected, logged as warnings, and skipped so they do not break the crawl.
- **Resource Filtering:** Non-text files (such as `.zip`, `.pdf`, `.mp4`, `.png`, `.jpg`, etc.) are automatically ignored to save bandwidth and compute units.
- **CDNs & Noise Filtering:** Extracted emails are checked against blacklists to remove fake/placeholder emails (like `you@example.com` or `info@example.com`) and tracking domains (like `sentry.io` or `google-analytics.com`).
- **Resilient Runs:** HTTP 403 or 404 pages are skipped gracefully without aborting the crawler.

### 📝 Release Notes

- **v1.0.0:** Initial release. Built-in support for XML sitemaps, SPA script scanning, crawler caps, and custom blacklists.

### 🆘 FAQ & Support

- **Is it legal to scrape email addresses?** Scraping public emails for contact directories and lead indexing is generally legal. However, always ensure you comply with regional regulations such as CAN-SPAM (US) or GDPR (EU) when conducting cold outreach.
- **Can it parse JS obfuscation?** Yes, the scraper automatically decodes standard obfuscation schemes (HTML entities, JS strings, and atob schemes) by scanning page scripts.
- **Support:** If you run into issues, have questions, or want to suggest new features, please file a ticket in the **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One or more website URLs to start crawling from. The actor follows internal links to discover emails across the whole site.

## `deepSearch` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, crawls internal pages deep into the website structure. If disabled, crawls only the main page and high-priority pages (e.g. contact, about, team).

## `maxEmailsToScrape` (type: `integer`):

Stop emitting results after this many unique emails are found across the whole run. Set to 0 for unlimited.

## `maxCrawlDepth` (type: `integer`):

How many link-hops from the seed URL to follow. Depth 1 = seed page only. Depth 2 = seed + all pages it links to. Priority pages (contact, about, blog, team…) are always followed at any depth.

## `maxPagesPerSeed` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages the crawler will visit per seed URL. Keeps costs predictable on large sites.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Select proxies to be used. Residential proxies are highly recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/contact/"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mikolabs.xyz"
    }
  ],
  "deepSearch": false,
  "maxEmailsToScrape": 10,
  "maxCrawlDepth": 3,
  "maxPagesPerSeed": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.w3.org/contact/"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://mikolabs.xyz"
        }
    ],
    "maxEmailsToScrape": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mikolabs/website-mail-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 = {
    "urls": [
        { "url": "https://www.w3.org/contact/" },
        { "url": "https://mikolabs.xyz" },
    ],
    "maxEmailsToScrape": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/contact/"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mikolabs.xyz"
    }
  ],
  "maxEmailsToScrape": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call mikolabs/website-mail-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mikolabs/website-mail-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Website Mail Extractor",
        "description": "Website Email Scraper is a powerful, lightweight, and stealthy web crawler designed to find and extract public email addresses from any website. Simply provide a list of starting URLs, and the scraper will follow internal links, prioritize key pages, and return a clean list of deduplicated emails.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "odxG8ZxGiDohwsSDF"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/mikolabs~website-mail-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-mikolabs-website-mail-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
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                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mikolabs~website-mail-extractor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-mikolabs-website-mail-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mikolabs~website-mail-extractor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-mikolabs-website-mail-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "Seed URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "One or more website URLs to start crawling from. The actor follows internal links to discover emails across the whole site.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "deepSearch": {
                        "title": "Deep Search Mode",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If enabled, crawls internal pages deep into the website structure. If disabled, crawls only the main page and high-priority pages (e.g. contact, about, team).",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxEmailsToScrape": {
                        "title": "Max emails to scrape (0 = unlimited)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Stop emitting results after this many unique emails are found across the whole run. Set to 0 for unlimited."
                    },
                    "maxCrawlDepth": {
                        "title": "Max crawl depth",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 6,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many link-hops from the seed URL to follow. Depth 1 = seed page only. Depth 2 = seed + all pages it links to. Priority pages (contact, about, blog, team…) are always followed at any depth.",
                        "default": 3
                    },
                    "maxPagesPerSeed": {
                        "title": "Max pages per seed URL",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of pages the crawler will visit per seed URL. Keeps costs predictable on large sites.",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Select proxies to be used. Residential proxies are highly recommended."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```