# Website Email & Phone Hunter (`moving_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter`) Actor

Website Email & Phone Hunter is an Apify actor that extracts email addresses and phone numbers from a list of websites. It automatically visits common contact pages such as Home, Contact, Contact Us, and About, then uses optimized pattern matching to collect unique contact details.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## 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?

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.

- **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`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **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 Email & Phone Hunter

An [Apify actor](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors) that harvests **emails**
and **phone numbers** from a list of websites. For each site it visits the common
contact-style pages — home, `/contact`, `/contact/`, `/contact-us`,
`/contact-us/`, `/about`, `/about/` — and extracts contact details with regex.

### Output

One record per website:

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `website` | The site that was searched |
| `emails` | List of unique emails found |
| `phones` | List of phone numbers found |
| `emailCount` | Number of emails |
| `phoneCount` | Number of phones |
| `pagesVisited` | How many pages were actually fetched |

```json
{
    "website": "https://example.com",
    "emails": ["info@example.com", "sales@example.com"],
    "phones": ["(555) 123-4567"],
    "emailCount": 2,
    "phoneCount": 1,
    "pagesVisited": 4
}
```

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `startUrls` | array | — | **Required.** Websites to harvest (bare domains OK) |
| `maxPagesPerSite` | integer | `4` | Contact pages to probe per site (1–7) |
| `strictPhones` | boolean | `true` | Only keep properly-formatted phone numbers |
| `engine` | string | `auto` | `auto` / `curl_cffi` / `requests` |
| `requestDelaySeconds` | integer | `1` | Politeness delay between requests |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy | Optional; helps with rate-limiting |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://acmeplumbing.com" },
        { "url": "https://example.com" }
    ],
    "maxPagesPerSite": 4,
    "strictPhones": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

### A note on phone matching

The original scraper's phone regex is loose — on data-heavy pages it can grab
long digit-runs from inline scripts, hashes, and tracking IDs that aren't phone
numbers. This actor adds a **`strictPhones`** option (on by default) that keeps
only matches carrying real phone formatting (separators, parentheses, or a
leading `+`) and rejects sequences over 15 digits. Set `strictPhones: false` to
restore the original loose behavior. Emails are unaffected — that regex is tight.

# Actor input Schema

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

Websites to harvest. Add URLs directly, or upload/link a list. Bare domains (example.com) are accepted and assumed https.

## `maxPagesPerSite` (type: `integer`):

How many contact-style pages to probe per site, in order: home, /contact, /contact/, /contact-us, /contact-us/, /about, /about/.

## `strictPhones` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep phone numbers that carry real formatting (separators, parentheses, or a leading +). Filters out long digit-runs from inline data/hashes. Turn off to use the original loose matching.

## `engine` (type: `string`):

'auto' uses curl\_cffi browser-TLS impersonation when available (best for bot protection), else plain requests.

## `requestDelaySeconds` (type: `integer`):

Minimum seconds between requests (politeness / anti-blocking). A small random jitter is added.

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

Apify Proxy settings. Helpful when target sites rate-limit or block datacenter IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 4,
  "strictPhones": true,
  "engine": "auto",
  "requestDelaySeconds": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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://example.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter").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://example.com" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=moving_beacon-owner1/website-email-phone-hunter",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/GFUB8fR0V4N5AIpcY/builds/00FfpqTP5c6x5XTF7/openapi.json