Business Email Finder API — Verify, Score, Confidence

Business email finder and verifier for CRM-ready lead lists. Give company domains or names and get back verified emails with a confidence score, MX validity, role type and evidence source for each. Only verified leads are charged, and the first 5 of every run are free.

Free tier — 5 verified leads on every run

The first 5 verified leads of every run are free. It applies to every run, not just the first, so you can point this Actor at your own target companies and judge the data before a cent is billed.

Beyond the free 5 you pay $0.035 per verified lead — and only for leads that passed MX verification. An address whose domain cannot receive mail is dropped, not billed.

What it does

Run it once and get the full, current data as clean rows you can export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull through the API. Need only fresh data? Turn on monitorEnabled and schedule it: every later run returns only what is new or changed since the previous one, so you never re-download or re-pay for the same rows.

Why this scraper

1. Try before you pay. The first 10 results of every run are free, on every run.
2. Pay only for data delivered. Failed sources and failed inputs are never billed.
3. Hard cost cap. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and a run can never cost more than you allow.
4. Only-new mode. With monitorEnabled on a schedule, you get just the new or changed rows, plus a spike signal when volume suddenly jumps.
5. Clean, normalized rows with the same field names every run, plus a RUN_SUMMARY.json — ready for spreadsheets, databases, n8n/Make/Zapier and AI agents (MCP).

Example input

{
  "websiteUrls": [
    "https://www.gnu.org/contact/",
    "https://www.eff.org/about/contact"
  ],
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1.0
}

Output

Each row is a verified lead: website, legal_name, entity_type, business_contacts (each published email with its MX check and the page it was found on), confidence, quality_flags and record_id. Each contact also carries isDeliverable, isDisposable, isRoleAccount and isSafeToSend. A RUN_SUMMARY.json accompanies every run with verified/total counts and quality breakdown.

How you're charged

• Qualified lead ($0.035) — billed once per verified, MX-checked lead.
• Bring-your-own dataset — you supply the company data, so there is no upstream fetch and no source-check fee.
• A run that verifies nothing costs $0.

Related tools

• Need a list of businesses to qualify first? → New Business Leads - New Google Maps Listings by City
• Need a list of hiring companies to qualify first? → Company Careers Page Scraper - Jobs from Any Career Site

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free and fill in Public contact-page URLs (websiteUrls).
2. Optional: adjust the other fields; every one has a description and a sensible default.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

Use it from code (API)

Every Apify Actor is an API. Start a run and read the results with one call.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api").call(run_input={"websiteUrls": ["https://basecamp.com", "https://www.gnu.org"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api').call({
    "websiteUrls": [
        "https://basecamp.com",
        "https://www.gnu.org"
    ]
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (cURL) — runs the Actor and returns the dataset in the same response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~vigia-lead-quality-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"websiteUrls": ["https://basecamp.com", "https://www.gnu.org"]}'

Integrations: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

• n8n — the official Apify node, operation Run Actor and get dataset, Actor om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api.
• Make — Apify › Run an Actor, then Apify › Get Dataset Items.
• Zapier — Apify › Run Actor; map the dataset items into your next step.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, Slack — add an integration from the Integrations tab of this Actor.
• Schedules — run it every hour or day from Schedules in Apify Console.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP and x402)

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and add this Actor, om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api, as a tool — the agent passes the same JSON as the run input and gets the dataset back.

AI agents that pay with x402 can run it too, without an Apify account: the Actor charges only per result delivered, so an agent pays exactly for what it gets.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Business Email? This Actor collects only publicly available Business Email data and never logs in. You are responsible for how you use it; check Business Email's terms and your local law (GDPR, CCPA) if you store personal data, and ask a lawyer if unsure.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key? No. You only need an Apify account to run it.

What data do I get? Verified business emails with a confidence score and source evidence. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read it from the API.

Am I charged when something fails? No. An input that fails is listed with its reason in the run summary and is never charged.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console (hourly, daily, weekly) and connect webhooks, Google Sheets, Slack, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Can I use it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent? Yes: see the code samples above, or connect AI agents through MCP with the verify_business_leads tool.

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