# Business Email Finder & Verifier - CRM-Ready Leads (`om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api`) Actor

Find and verify business email addresses from company domains and names. Returns email, confidence score, MX validity, role type and source. Clean deduplicated rows ready to import into any CRM. You pay only for verified leads.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/om\_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api.md
- **Developed by:** [omar khandji](https://apify.com/om_kh) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$35.00 / 1,000 qualified leads

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.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.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/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

## Business Email Finder & Verifier — Evidence-Backed Leads (Vigia)

**Turn business data you're authorized to use into CRM-ready leads — never a guessed email, only what's actually published and MX-valid.**

Most lead finders guess emails from name+domain patterns (`first.last@domain`) and hope they land. Vigia does the opposite: it only delivers a lead when it finds an email **actually published** on the company's own domain, with a valid MX record and a source URL as evidence — and you pay nothing for a candidate that doesn't qualify.

### Why choose Vigia

- **No guessing, ever** — competitors' pattern-based email generators produce a name that *looks* like an email; Vigia only delivers emails it found published, with `evidence` pointing to the exact source page.
- **MX-validated, honestly labelled** — `verification_level: mx_valid` means syntax + company domain + MX record are confirmed. Vigia does **not** claim mailbox delivery via SMTP probing (unreliable behind catch-all servers, and a burden on target mail infrastructure) and says so plainly instead of a false-confidence score.
- **Zero charge for unqualified candidates** — you only pay `qualified-lead` for a lead that actually passes every check.
- **Aggregate signal** — each run returns a `lead_signal`: distinct domains covered, contact-kind breakdown (role vs. named), and average confidence.
- **Fair pricing** — hard `maxTotalChargeUsd` cap; never billed without a result.

### Honest positioning

This is a **verification and evidence engine**, not a discovery/scraping tool — it does not find companies for you or scrape LinkedIn, Reddit, Trustpilot, or Shopify. Point it at contact-page URLs you're authorized to use, or bring your own candidate list, and it turns them into evidence-backed, CRM-ready records.

### Input

- `websiteUrls` — public contact-page URLs to extract and validate an email from (max 100/run).
- `candidates` — bring your own candidate list (`company_name`, `website`, `emails`, `mx_domains`, `source_url`).
- `monitorEnabled` / `monitorId` — persistent dedup; a lead already delivered once is never billed twice.
- `maxTotalChargeUsd` — hard spend cap.

### Output

One row per qualified lead: `legal_name`, `website`, `business_contacts` (email, kind, verification_level), `confidence`, `evidence`. Plus a `RUN_SUMMARY.json` with the aggregate `lead_signal`.

### FAQ

**Does this actor find companies for me?** No — see Honest positioning above.
**Why no SMTP verification?** Most SMTP checks are unreliable against catch-all/greylisted servers and can flag your sending infrastructure. Vigia's MX-only check is honestly labelled, not oversold as delivery-guaranteed.
**Why $0.035/lead when some competitors advertise $0.0015–$0.03?** Those prices are usually for *guessed* emails at scale, no evidence, no per-candidate verification. Vigia charges only for leads that actually pass MX + published-source validation — you pay for qualified output, not raw guesses.

# Actor input Schema

## `websiteUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional HTTP(S) URLs. Vigia reads at most 100 HTML pages, extracts public same-domain emails and checks MX records without SMTP probing.
## `candidates` (type: `array`):

Optional pre-collected candidates. Each item needs company_name, website, emails, mx_domains and source_url.
## `sources` (type: `array`):

Declare every upstream source before this run. Each item needs name, authorization (customer_authorized, public_official, commercial_license, or merchant_authorized), and estimated_cost_usd.
## `monitorEnabled` (type: `boolean`):

On the first monitored run, Vigia saves a free baseline. Later runs deliver and charge only new qualified leads.
## `monitorId` (type: `string`):

Pins the persistent baseline to a name of your choice, so separate targets never share state. Leave empty to derive it automatically.
## `maxTotalChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Hard cap for Vigia qualified-lead events. Source and platform costs, if any, are separate and shown by their providers.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websiteUrls": [],
  "candidates": [
    {
      "company_name": "Example Business",
      "website": "https://example.com",
      "emails": [
        "sales@example.com"
      ],
      "mx_domains": [
        "example.com"
      ],
      "source_url": "https://example.com/contact"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Customer CRM export",
      "authorization": "customer_authorized",
      "estimated_cost_usd": 0
    }
  ],
  "monitorEnabled": false,
  "monitorId": "",
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}
````

# 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 = {
    "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api").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 = { "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api").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 '{
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}' |
apify call om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=om_kh/vigia-lead-quality-api",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Business Email Finder & Verifier - CRM-Ready Leads",
        "description": "Find and verify business email addresses from company domains and names. Returns email, confidence score, MX validity, role type and source. Clean deduplicated rows ready to import into any CRM. You pay only for verified leads.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "QmWmWG7Kf7Zb15Z1C"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/om_kh~vigia-lead-quality-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-om_kh-vigia-lead-quality-api",
                "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": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/om_kh~vigia-lead-quality-api/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-om_kh-vigia-lead-quality-api",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/om_kh~vigia-lead-quality-api/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-om_kh-vigia-lead-quality-api",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": [
                    "maxTotalChargeUsd"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "websiteUrls": {
                        "title": "Public contact-page URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Optional HTTP(S) URLs. Vigia reads at most 100 HTML pages, extracts public same-domain emails and checks MX records without SMTP probing.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "candidates": {
                        "title": "Candidate companies",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Optional pre-collected candidates. Each item needs company_name, website, emails, mx_domains and source_url.",
                        "default": [
                            {
                                "company_name": "Example Business",
                                "website": "https://example.com",
                                "emails": [
                                    "sales@example.com"
                                ],
                                "mx_domains": [
                                    "example.com"
                                ],
                                "source_url": "https://example.com/contact"
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "sources": {
                        "title": "Declared upstream sources and estimated costs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Declare every upstream source before this run. Each item needs name, authorization (customer_authorized, public_official, commercial_license, or merchant_authorized), and estimated_cost_usd.",
                        "default": [
                            {
                                "name": "Customer CRM export",
                                "authorization": "customer_authorized",
                                "estimated_cost_usd": 0
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "monitorEnabled": {
                        "title": "Monitor only new leads",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "On the first monitored run, Vigia saves a free baseline. Later runs deliver and charge only new qualified leads.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "monitorId": {
                        "title": "Monitor ID (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Pins the persistent baseline to a name of your choice, so separate targets never share state. Leave empty to derive it automatically.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "maxTotalChargeUsd": {
                        "title": "Maximum Vigia charge (USD)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Hard cap for Vigia qualified-lead events. Source and platform costs, if any, are separate and shown by their providers.",
                        "default": 1
                    }
                }
            },
            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```