# Hunter.io Email Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper`) Actor

Collects professional email data from Hunter.io by company domain, providing email addresses, names, job titles, departments, seniority, confidence scores, LinkedIn profiles, phone numbers, and company details such as industry, location, headcount, and email patterns.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $9.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Hunter.io Email Scraper

Collects professional email data from hunter.io for the company domains you list. Out of the box it returns a company-level email profile for every domain — how many addresses Hunter has on file, the personal/generic split, and the breakdown by department and seniority. Add your own Hunter API key and the actor returns the individual contacts behind each domain instead: email address, name, job title, department, seniority, confidence score, LinkedIn handle and phone number, alongside the company details Hunter holds (industry, city, country, headcount, email pattern).

### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company domains | `stripe.com, google.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com, ibm.com` | Company domains to look up, separated by commas or new lines. Full URLs are accepted and reduced to the domain. |
| Max results | `50` | Maximum number of records to return across all domains (1–1000). Without an API key each domain yields one company-level record; with an API key each contact is its own record. |
| Email type | `Any type` | Restrict contacts to personal addresses (name-based) or generic ones (`info@`, `sales@`, …). Applies to API-key runs. |
| Hunter API key | empty | Optional. A Hunter API key from your account page. When set, the actor returns individual contacts instead of company-level statistics. Hunter's free plan includes a monthly credit allowance. Leave empty to run without a key. |
| Proxy configuration | Apify Proxy on | Optional. Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results. |

### Output

One dataset item per contact (with an API key) or per domain (without one); every item keeps the original payload under `raw`.

```json
{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "source": "email_count",
  "email": null,
  "full_name": null,
  "position": null,
  "department": null,
  "seniority": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "email_type": null,
  "verification_status": null,
  "linkedin_url": null,
  "twitter": null,
  "phone_number": null,
  "organization": null,
  "industry": null,
  "country": null,
  "city": null,
  "company_size": null,
  "email_pattern": null,
  "sources_count": null,
  "total_emails": 2198,
  "personal_emails": 2081,
  "generic_emails": 117,
  "executives_count": 27,
  "sales_count": 243,
  "marketing_count": 38,
  "it_count": 803,
  "senior_count": 644,
  "department_counts": { "executive": 27, "it": 803, "finance": 71, "sales": 243, "support": 112, "hr": 34, "marketing": 38, "operations": 47, "management": 89, "legal": 19 },
  "seniority_counts": { "junior": 5, "senior": 644, "executive": 27 },
  "raw": { ... }
}
```

### Notes

- Runs with empty input — the default domain list is used and no key is required.
- Hunter's keyless company profile covers a subset of domains; a domain it does not serve is skipped and the run continues. Supply an API key for full contact records on any domain.
- Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results.
- Collected contact data is personal data — use it in line with hunter.io's terms and applicable privacy and anti-spam rules.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `string`):

Company domains to look up, separated by commas or new lines (e.g. 'stripe.com, ibm.com'). Full URLs are accepted and reduced to the domain.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return across all domains. Without an API key each domain yields one company-level record; with an API key each contact is its own record.

## `email_type` (type: `string`):

Restrict contacts to personal addresses (name-based) or generic ones (info@, sales@, ...). Applies to API-key runs.

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Optional. A Hunter API key from your account page. When provided, the actor returns individual contacts for each domain instead of company-level email statistics. Hunter's free plan includes a monthly credit allowance. Leave empty to run keyless.

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

Proxy settings for the run. Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results, especially for sites that limit non-US or datacenter traffic. Optional — leave off to run directly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": "stripe.com, google.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com, ibm.com",
  "max_results": 50,
  "email_type": "any",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "domains": "stripe.com, google.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com, ibm.com",
    "max_results": 50,
    "email_type": "any",
    "apiKey": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper").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 = {
    "domains": "stripe.com, google.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com, ibm.com",
    "max_results": 50,
    "email_type": "any",
    "apiKey": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper").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 '{
  "domains": "stripe.com, google.com, microsoft.com, amazon.com, ibm.com",
  "max_results": 50,
  "email_type": "any",
  "apiKey": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/hunter-io-email-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/pC4i9LPbntM1K4rfI/builds/5syfqBWdee8qQtmzH/openapi.json