Smart Email Finder & Verifier 🔎✉️ (No API Key)

Find and verify business email addresses from a company domain — or a person's name — and confirm deliverability with DNS-MX checks. No API key, no monthly seat, no fragile third-party portal.

This Actor combines the two techniques every email-finding tool relies on, and does both in one cheap run:

1. Discover — it fetches a company's homepage and common contact pages (/, /contact, /about, /impressum, /team, /kontakt) and extracts every real email address it can find — including mailto: links, plain-text addresses, and obfuscated ones like name [at] domain [dot] com or hello@company.com. It also grabs tel: phone numbers.
2. Guess — for a given person (first + last name), it generates the common corporate email patterns (john.doe@, jdoe@, johndoe@, john@, …) at that company's domain.

Every candidate email is then verified for deliverability without SMTP: the Actor confirms the domain publishes valid MX records via Google DNS-over-HTTPS and validates the address syntax, then flags disposable providers. See How verification works below for why this is the honest, reliable signal.

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💡 Use cases

• B2B lead generation — turn a list of company domains into a list of verified contact emails.
• Cold outreach & sales prospecting — find the decision-maker's likely address and confirm the domain accepts mail before you send.
• Recruiting & talent sourcing — reach candidates when only a name + employer is known.
• List building & CRM enrichment — append emails + phone numbers to accounts you already have.
• Deliverability hygiene — screen an existing list for dead domains (no_mx) and disposable addresses before a campaign.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	discover (scrape pages for emails + phones) or guess (person → corporate patterns). Default discover.
domains	array	Company domains, e.g. ["stripe.com", "apify.com"]. Scheme/path stripped automatically. Used in both modes.
firstName	string	Person's first name (guess mode).
lastName	string	Person's last name (guess mode).
pages	array	Page paths to scrape per domain (discover mode). Default ["/","/contact","/about","/impressum","/team"].
maxItems	integer	Max output rows (1–1000). Default 100.

Example — discover

{ "mode": "discover", "domains": ["apify.com", "stripe.com"] }

Example — guess

{ "mode": "guess", "domains": ["stripe.com"], "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe" }

📤 Output

Each row is one email (or phone). Example:

{
  "type": "email",
  "email": "hello@apify.com",
  "source": "discovered",
  "pattern": null,
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "mx_found": true,
  "mx_host": "aspmx.l.google.com",
  "syntax_valid": true,
  "disposable": false,
  "status": "mx_ok",
  "found_on_url": "https://apify.com/contact",
  "person": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T18:40:00+00:00"
}

Guessed rows include pattern (e.g. {first}.{last}) and person; discovered phone rows use type: "phone" with a phone field. Status is one of mx_ok, no_mx, invalid_syntax.

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🔬 How verification works (and why no SMTP)

Most "verifiers" claim to do an SMTP RCPT TO handshake against the mail server. From cloud/datacenter IPs — where scrapers run — that handshake is routinely blocked, greylisted, or returns catch-all lies, so the "valid" flag is often meaningless. Instead, this Actor uses the honest, reproducible signals:

• MX records via Google DNS-over-HTTPS (https://dns.google/resolve) — proves the domain is configured to receive mail. No MX ⇒ the address cannot be delivered (no_mx).
• Strict syntax validation — RFC-ish local-part + alphabetic TLD.
• Disposable-domain detection — flags Mailinator, Guerrilla Mail, 10MinuteMail and friends as risky.

This never probes the target mail server, never leaks your intent, and never gets your IP blocked. mx_ok means "valid syntax on a domain that accepts mail" — the strongest signal you can get cleanly.

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💰 Pricing

Priced to undercut Hunter.io, Snov.io and Apollo — roughly $1 per 1,000 emails processed, pay-as-you-go, no monthly seat and no credit expiry. Run it on a handful of domains or ten thousand; you only pay for what you use.

	This Actor	Hunter.io / Snov.io
API key required	❌ No	✅ Yes
Monthly seat / subscription	❌ No	✅ Yes
DNS-MX verified	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Discover + Guess in one run	✅ Yes	Separate credits
Phone numbers	✅ Yes (tel:)	Limited

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🔗 Related Actors by this author

• Email Verifier
• Website Contact Extractor
• OSM Local Business Scraper
• Website Tech Stack Detector

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⚖️ Legal & GDPR

Scrape and process only publicly available business contact data, and use it in line with GDPR/CAN-SPAM and applicable local law. You are the data controller for how you use the output. This tool does not send email.

Keywords: email finder, email verifier, email checker, MX record lookup, lead generation, B2B leads, cold outreach, email pattern, contact scraper, no API key.