# Contact Scraper: Validated Emails + Phones, Pay Per Site (`mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro`) Actor

Crawl business websites for emails, phones, and socials — then VALIDATE every email (DNS/MX, disposable, role, placeholder filtering) so you get deliverable contacts, not regex soup. Failed fetches never billed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro.md
- **Developed by:** [Larry Johnson](https://apify.com/mrlarryjohnson) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 site processeds

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 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
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use 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

## Contact Details Scraper PRO — emails that actually deliver

Feed it a list of company websites. Get back **validated** contact details:
emails, phones, and social profiles — with every email DNS-checked and graded,
not dumped raw.

### Why "PRO"? Because raw contact scrapers lie to you

A plain regex scraper run on a real site returns this:

````

billing@example.com        ← placeholder in the page template
jane.doe@example.com       ← demo address
logo@2x.png                ← an image filename that looks like an email
2024-09-10                 ← a date the phone regex mistook for a number
support@acme.com           ← the one address you actually wanted

````

You pay for all five, then your campaign bounces and your sender reputation
tanks. **This actor filters the noise:** placeholders are dropped, image/asset
false-positives are removed, phones come only from real `tel:` links (so no
dates or CSS decimals), and every surviving email is checked:

| Field per email | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `verdict` | valid / risky / disposable / invalid / unknown |
| `score` | 0–100 deliverability confidence |
| `roleBased` | info@, sales@ (lower-value for personal outreach) |
| `disposable` | throwaway provider |
| `freeProvider` | gmail/outlook etc. |

Verdicts also include `service` (telemetry/CDN keys like Sentry DSNs or `git@github.com` — dropped, never billed as contacts) and `placeholder` (demo addresses — dropped).

### What you get per site

```json
{
  "domain": "acme.com",
  "pagesScanned": 4,
  "emails": [
    { "email": "founder@acme.com", "verdict": "valid", "score": 100,
      "roleBased": false, "freeProvider": false }
  ],
  "phones": ["+1 415 555 0100"],
  "socials": { "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/acme", "twitter": "..." },
  "summary": { "validEmails": 1, "totalEmails": 3, "phones": 1, "socials": 2 }
}
````

It scans the home page plus auto-discovered contact / about / team pages.

### Billing you can trust

- **One charge per site we actually processed** — even a site with zero public
  contacts is a real answer you asked for.
- **Sites we can't reach (DNS failure, timeout, hard block) are never billed.**
- Email DNS lookups are cached per run (on success), so many contacts on one
  domain cost one lookup.
- **Any reachable URL is billed once** — including parked or placeholder
  domains, because a 200-page with no contacts is indistinguishable from a real
  one without crawling it. Only genuinely unreachable URLs are free.
- Results are capped at `maxEmailsPerSite` (default 50, kept by deliverability
  score — never alphabetically) and `maxPhonesPerSite` (default 15); the true
  totals are reported in `emailsFound` / `phonesFound`.

### Honest limits

- Server-rendered HTML only (no JavaScript execution) — contacts injected by
  client-side JS won't be seen.
- Phones are taken from `tel:` links only. This is deliberate: text-regex phone
  extraction is wrong more often than right. Higher precision, some recall lost.
- A real but fictional demo address on a page (e.g. a "John Wick" example) can
  still pass DNS validation — validation proves the *domain* accepts mail, not
  that the *person* exists.
- Sites behind heavy bot protection may need the proxy input (RESIDENTIAL).

Built by the maker of the [Email Validation API](https://apify.com/mrlarryjohnson/email-validator-api)
(same validation engine) and a [whale-tracking + MCP suite](https://apify.com/mrlarryjohnson)
— same rules everywhere: clean data, errors never billed.

# Actor input Schema

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

Business website URLs or domains (one per line). Each is crawled for contact details.

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

Home page plus this many contact/about/team pages (1-10).

## `followContactPages` (type: `boolean`):

Automatically find and scan contact/about/team pages (recommended).

## `maxEmailsPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Keep the highest-scoring N validated emails per site (sorted by deliverability score, so the cap drops the weakest, never the best). emailsFound reports the true total.

## `maxPhonesPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Keep up to N phone numbers (from tel: links) per site.

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

Use a proxy for sites that block datacenter IPs. Off by default; most business sites don't need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://apify.com",
    "basecamp.com"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 4,
  "followContactPages": true,
  "maxEmailsPerSite": 50,
  "maxPhonesPerSite": 15
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per site: validated emails, phones, socials.

# 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": [
        "https://apify.com",
        "basecamp.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro").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": [
        "https://apify.com",
        "basecamp.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro").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": [
    "https://apify.com",
    "basecamp.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mrlarryjohnson/contact-details-scraper-pro",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Contact Scraper: Validated Emails + Phones, Pay Per Site",
        "description": "Crawl business websites for emails, phones, and socials — then VALIDATE every email (DNS/MX, disposable, role, placeholder filtering) so you get deliverable contacts, not regex soup. Failed fetches never billed.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "FFI7diBvrQMNIVMlx"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~contact-details-scraper-pro/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-mrlarryjohnson-contact-details-scraper-pro",
                "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": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~contact-details-scraper-pro/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-mrlarryjohnson-contact-details-scraper-pro",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~contact-details-scraper-pro/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-mrlarryjohnson-contact-details-scraper-pro",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": [
                    "startUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Websites to scan",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Business website URLs or domains (one per line). Each is crawled for contact details.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxPagesPerSite": {
                        "title": "Max pages per site",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Home page plus this many contact/about/team pages (1-10).",
                        "default": 4
                    },
                    "followContactPages": {
                        "title": "Follow contact/about pages",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Automatically find and scan contact/about/team pages (recommended).",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxEmailsPerSite": {
                        "title": "Max emails per site",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Keep the highest-scoring N validated emails per site (sorted by deliverability score, so the cap drops the weakest, never the best). emailsFound reports the true total.",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "maxPhonesPerSite": {
                        "title": "Max phones per site",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Keep up to N phone numbers (from tel: links) per site.",
                        "default": 15
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy (optional)",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Use a proxy for sites that block datacenter IPs. Off by default; most business sites don't need it."
                    }
                }
            },
            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```