# Lead-Gen Pipeline Pro: Find + Verify Deliverable Contacts (`mrlarryjohnson/leadgen-pipeline-pro`) Actor Feed it business websites and get deliverable, scored contacts in one run: crawl emails + phones + socials, then validate every email inline (DNS/MX, disposable, role, placeholder filtering). Validation is on by default, not a paid add-on. Failed fetches are never billed. - **URL**: https://apify.com/mrlarryjohnson/leadgen-pipeline-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 $10.00 / 1,000 verified deliverable emails 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 ## Lead-Gen Pipeline Pro Feed it a list of business websites or domains. Get back a clean lead list: deliverable, scored contacts in one run. It crawls each site for emails, phones, and social profiles, then validates every email inline (DNS/MX, disposable, role, placeholder filtering) and surfaces the deliverable ones first. Validation is on by default, not a paid add-on you bolt on afterward. The point: most contact scrapers hand you `info@` regex soup that you then have to clean and verify with a second tool. This does the find-and-verify in one pass, so what comes out is already usable. ### What a naive scraper gives you vs this Run a plain regex scraper on a real business site and you get a pile like this, all mixed together: ```` 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 git@github.com from a code snippet on the page key@o0.ingest.sentry.io a Sentry error-tracking DSN, not a person hello@therealcompany.com the one address you actually wanted ```` This pipeline strips the noise (placeholders, demo addresses, dev keys, third-party addresses smuggled in mailto params, image filenames) and grades what is left, so the real deliverable contact comes out on top with a score. ### Output One row per site, with the deliverable contacts surfaced first: ```json { "domain": "basecamp.com", "bestEmail": "jason@basecamp.com", "bestVerdict": "valid", "bestScore": 100, "deliverableCount": 1, "deliverableEmails": ["jason@basecamp.com"], "bestPhone": null, "emails": [{"email": "jason@basecamp.com", "verdict": "valid", "score": 100, "roleBased": false, "disposable": false, "freeProvider": false}], "phones": [], "socials": {"twitter": ["https://twitter.com/basecamp"]}, "pagesScanned": 3, "status": "ok" } ```` The default table view is a lead list: domain, best email, verdict, score, deliverable count, phone. Sort by score and start at the top. - `bestVerdict` / each email's `verdict` is one of `valid` (deliverable), `risky`, `unknown` (we could not check the DNS right now), `disposable`, `invalid`. Only `valid` counts toward `deliverableCount`. - `score` is 0-100 deliverability confidence (MX present, not disposable, not a role inbox). - Role inboxes like `info@` or `sales@` are flagged with `roleBased: true` and can still verify as deliverable, since they do accept mail. They just score lower because they are weaker for personal outreach. Filter on `roleBased` if you only want personal addresses. ### Input ```json { "startUrls": ["https://apify.com", "basecamp.com"] } ``` - `startUrls` (required): business website URLs or domains, one per line. - `maxPagesPerSite`: home page plus this many contact/about/team pages (default 4). - `followContactPages`: auto-find and scan contact/about pages (default on). - `maxEmailsPerSite`, `maxPhonesPerSite`: caps, keep the highest-scoring. - `proxyConfiguration`: optional, for sites that block datacenter IPs. Note: it takes a list of sites to scan. It does not yet discover sites from a keyword or location (that is on the roadmap). If you already have a list of company domains, this turns them into verified leads. ### Billing (tiered, you pay more only as you get more) - `site-scanned`: one per site successfully fetched (the crawl work). Cheap. - `contact-found`: one per site that yielded at least one usable contact. - `verified-deliverable`: one per email returned with a deliverable verdict. The premium tier, the part you actually want. Sites we cannot fetch (DNS failure, timeout, hard block) are never billed. Email DNS failures come back as `unknown` and are not counted as deliverable, so you are never charged for a guess. ### Honest limits Server-rendered HTML only (no JavaScript execution). Phones come only from `tel:` links, because text-regex phone extraction is wrong more often than right. There is no SMTP handshake (those are blocked from shared IPs and unreliable), so deliverability is DNS-tier confidence: it proves the domain accepts mail, not that a specific person's mailbox exists. A real but fictional demo address on a real domain can still pass. Sites behind heavy bot protection may need the proxy option. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ 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/leadgen-pipeline-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # 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/leadgen-pipeline-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/leadgen-pipeline-pro --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mrlarryjohnson/leadgen-pipeline-pro", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Lead-Gen Pipeline Pro: Find + Verify Deliverable Contacts", "description": "Feed it business websites and get deliverable, scored contacts in one run: crawl emails + phones + socials, then validate every email inline (DNS/MX, disposable, role, placeholder filtering). Validation is on by default, not a paid add-on. Failed fetches are never billed.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "VhjdBdKEYtJVLqGWw" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~leadgen-pipeline-pro/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-mrlarryjohnson-leadgen-pipeline-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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~leadgen-pipeline-pro/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-mrlarryjohnson-leadgen-pipeline-pro", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/mrlarryjohnson~leadgen-pipeline-pro/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-mrlarryjohnson-leadgen-pipeline-pro", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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 } } } } } } } } } } ```