# MIT Phone Number Scraper (`phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper`) Actor

\[1k/2.5$] MIT Phone Number Scraper - extract phone numbers and contact details of labs, departments and faculty from MIT in seconds. Export clean JSON, CSV or Excel data for lead generation, cold calling, sales outreach and market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Phone Number Scraper](https://apify.com/phone_number_scraper) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.49 / 1,000 results

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

### 🔍 MIT Phone Number Scraper

MIT Phone Number Scraper helps you find public phone numbers that departments, labs, faculty and staff publish on mit.edu, including department, lab and faculty pages. Enter keywords such as `professor` or `researcher`, choose a country, and the Actor returns validated phone numbers with the page title, the text snippet that contains each number, and a direct link to the source page.

It is built for academic partnership teams, EdTech sales teams, recruiters and event organizers who want to reach MIT departments, labs and faculty without browsing mit.edu page by page. The MIT Phone Number Scraper uses only publicly available information, so you don't need an MIT account, campus login or API key.

> **🚀 Quick start:** Open the MIT Phone Number Scraper, add keywords like `professor` or `researcher`, select a country such as United Kingdom (+44), set your phone number limit and click **Start**. Results appear in a dataset you can export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

### ✨ MIT Phone Number Scraper – Key Features

The MIT Phone Number Scraper turns keyword searches into a structured list of faculty, lab and department contacts you can verify and use.

- 🔑 **Keyword-based search** – target roles, niches or topics such as professor, researcher, lab, department or admissions.

- 🌍 **194 countries supported** – pick a country and its dial code; only numbers valid for that country are kept.

- ✅ **Validated phone numbers** – every number the MIT Phone Number Scraper saves is checked and stored in the international E.164 format, such as `+441314960234`.

- 🧹 **Automatic de-duplication** – each phone number appears only once per run, even when several keywords find it.

- 🔗 **Source context included** – every record has the page title, the public snippet and the MIT URL.

- 💾 **Structured output** – export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read results through the Apify API.

- 🔄 **Reliable long runs** – if the platform restarts a run, the MIT Phone Number Scraper continues without saving duplicate numbers.

#### 🔹 Why use the MIT Phone Number Scraper?

| Benefit | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| No login needed | Works with publicly available mit.edu pages only |
| Clean contact data | Validated, de-duplicated numbers in one consistent format |
| Easy to verify | Source URL and text snippet for every phone number |
| Predictable costs | Result limits and spending caps keep each run under control |

### 📊 What Data Does the MIT Phone Number Scraper Extract?

The MIT Phone Number Scraper saves one record per phone number. Each record connects the number to the keyword that found it and the public MIT page it came from.

| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `phone_number` | Validated phone number in E.164 format | `+441314960234` |
| `country` | Country selected in the input | `United Kingdom` |
| `dial_code` | Country calling code | `+44` |
| `keyword` | Keyword that found this number | `professor` |
| `title` | Title of the source page | `Visiting Professor Lecture: Coastal…` |
| `description` | Public text snippet where the number appears | `Edinburgh. UK lab contact: +44 131…` |
| `url` | Direct link to the source page | `https://oceanrobotics.mit.edu/events/…` |
| `platform` | Platform the record comes from | `MIT` |
| `proxyGroups` | Technical information about the connection used for the run | – |

University websites usually list office numbers for departments, labs and staff. The MIT Phone Number Scraper can return numbers from:

- 👩‍🏫 **Faculty and staff pages** – that list an office phone number and research interests.

- 🔬 **Lab and center pages** – on mit.edu subdomains with contact and visitor details.

- 🏛️ **Department and office pages** – such as admissions, events or administrative offices.

- 🌐 **Other public mit.edu pages** – that show a number in their title or snippet.

> **🔒 Public data only:** The MIT Phone Number Scraper reads publicly visible titles and snippets. It does not access student records, course systems, internal directories behind login or any non-public data.

### 🚀 How to Use the MIT Phone Number Scraper

You can run the MIT Phone Number Scraper in a few minutes without writing any code.

- **Step 1 – Open the Actor:** open MIT Phone Number Scraper in Apify Console and go to the **Input** tab.

- **Step 2 – Add keywords:** enter roles, niches or terms such as `professor`, `researcher`, `lab` or `department`.

- **Step 3 – Choose a country:** select the country whose phone numbers you need. The dial code is applied automatically.

- **Step 4 – Set your limit:** enter the maximum number of phone numbers and decide whether it applies per keyword or to the whole run.

- **Step 5 – Start the run:** click **Start** and follow the log. The MIT Phone Number Scraper processes keywords in the order you entered them.

- **Step 6 – Export your data:** download the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or send it to your CRM.

> **⏰ Large searches:** For high phone-number limits or many keywords, increase the timeout in **Run options**. The default timeout is 3,600 seconds (1 hour).

### 🧭 How to Find MIT Faculty, Lab and Department Phone Numbers by Keyword

Keyword and country together decide which phone numbers you receive. The MIT Phone Number Scraper looks for public mit.edu pages that match your keyword and contain a number valid for the selected country, then extracts and validates every number it detects.

For example, to reach MIT engineering faculty for a research partnership, combine `professor`, `lab` and `engineering` with **United States (+1)**. To find UK partners named on MIT project pages, try `researcher` with **United Kingdom (+44)**.

#### 🔹 Choosing keywords that return more phone numbers

- Use **academic roles** such as professor, researcher, lecturer or postdoc.

- Use **unit words** such as lab, center, department, institute or office.

- Use **field terms** such as robotics, biology, economics or architecture.

- Add **several short, related keywords** instead of one long, narrow phrase.

### 💡 Can the MIT Phone Number Scraper Limit Phone Numbers per Keyword or per Run?

Yes. The MIT Phone Number Scraper gives you two ways to apply the **Max Phone Numbers** limit, controlled by the **Per Keyword Scrape Max Contacts** switch.

| Setting | How the limit works | Example with 3 keywords and a limit of 50 |
|---|---|---|
| **ON** (default) | The limit applies to each keyword separately | Up to 150 phone numbers in total |
| **OFF** | The limit applies to the whole run | Up to 50 phone numbers in total |

With the switch ON, every keyword gets its own share, so one popular keyword cannot use up the whole limit. With the switch OFF, the MIT Phone Number Scraper stops as soon as the total is reached.

> **⚠️ Heads-up:** With the switch ON, a run can collect – and be billed for – up to Max Phone Numbers × number of keywords, and it takes proportionally longer.

### 🎯 MIT Phone Number Scraper – Use Cases

The MIT Phone Number Scraper is useful when you need direct contact with academic teams at MIT.

- 🔬 **Research partnerships** – reach labs and faculty for sponsored research or collaboration.

- 🎓 **Academic recruitment** – contact departments about faculty, postdoc or PhD openings.

- 💻 **EdTech and lab sales** – offer software, equipment or services to departments and labs.

- 🎤 **Speaker invitations** – find professors to invite to conferences, panels or podcasts.

- 🤝 **Industry liaison** – connect companies with centers working in their field.

- 🗂️ **CRM enrichment** – add faculty and lab phone numbers and mit.edu links to existing records.

### 📥 MIT Phone Number Scraper Input

The MIT Phone Number Scraper uses a simple input form. Only **Keywords** and **Country** are required.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `keywords` | List of text | Yes | Keywords to search for, such as roles, niches or names. Default: `professor`, `researcher` |
| `country` | Select | Yes | Country of the phone numbers you need, shown with its dial code. Default: United Kingdom (+44) |
| `maxPhoneNumbers` | Number (1–10,000) | No | Maximum number of phone numbers to collect. Default: 5 |
| `perKeywordMaxContacts` | On/Off | No | ON: the limit applies to each keyword. OFF: the limit applies to the whole run. Default: ON |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Proxy settings | No | Optional connection settings. The default works for most users |

#### 🔹 Example input for the MIT Phone Number Scraper

```json
{
    "keywords": [
        "professor",
        "researcher"
    ],
    "country": "United Kingdom (+44)",
    "maxPhoneNumbers": 5,
    "perKeywordMaxContacts": true
}
```

> **💡 Note:** A higher limit allows more potential results but does not guarantee reaching that number. The MIT Phone Number Scraper stops early when no more matching public numbers are available.

### 📤 MIT Phone Number Scraper Output

Every phone number the MIT Phone Number Scraper finds is saved as a separate record in the run's dataset. Here is a sample of two records:

```json
[
    {
        "phone_number": "+441314960234",
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "dial_code": "+44",
        "keyword": "professor",
        "title": "Visiting Professor Lecture: Coastal Robotics | MIT",
        "description": "Talk by a visiting professor from Edinburgh. UK lab contact: +44 131 496 0234.",
        "url": "https://oceanrobotics.mit.edu/events/visiting-professor-lecture",
        "platform": "MIT"
    },
    {
        "phone_number": "+441514960567",
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "dial_code": "+44",
        "keyword": "researcher",
        "title": "Joint Ocean Sensing Project - People | MIT",
        "description": "Partner researcher at a Liverpool marine institute. Project phone: 0151 496 0567.",
        "url": "https://oceanrobotics.mit.edu/people/partners",
        "platform": "MIT"
    }
]
```

Each record also includes the technical `proxyGroups` field. Local formats such as `0151 496 0567` are converted to the international format `+441514960567`.

#### 🔹 Export and integration options

- 📁 **Download** the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

- 🔌 **Use the Apify API** to start MIT Phone Number Scraper runs and fetch results from your own scripts or apps.

- ⏱️ **Schedule runs** to refresh your results daily, weekly or monthly.

- 🔗 **Connect integrations** such as webhooks, Make or Zapier to send new contacts to your CRM or spreadsheet.

### 💰 MIT Phone Number Scraper Pricing

The MIT Phone Number Scraper is priced per result: you pay for each phone number record saved to your dataset. The current price is always shown on the Actor's **Pricing** tab.

| Plan or setting | What happens |
|---|---|
| Free Apify plan | Each run returns up to 20 phone number results |
| Paid Apify plan | Each run returns up to your Max Phone Numbers limit |
| Maximum cost per run | The run stops when your limit is reached, so you are not billed beyond it |

> **💡 Cost tip:** Start with a small limit, such as 5–20 phone numbers, to test your keywords before you launch a large MIT Phone Number Scraper run.

### 🛠️ MIT Phone Number Scraper Tips and Best Practices

Follow these tips to get more useful results from the MIT Phone Number Scraper:

- 🧪 **Test first** – run two or three keywords with a low limit to see which ones return numbers.

- 🔁 **Low results? Re-run** with broader keywords, more related terms or a different country.

- 🇺🇸 **Try United States (+1)** – most numbers on mit.edu belong to its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

- 🔍 **Check the profile** – open the `url` and confirm the person's current role; academic pages are not always updated.

> **⚖️ Use data responsibly:** Phone numbers are personal data in many countries. Follow privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA and local telemarketing and anti-spam rules, respect opt-out requests and never use the data for spam.

### ❓ MIT Phone Number Scraper – Frequently Asked Questions

#### 🔹 What is an MIT phone number scraper?

It is a tool that collects phone numbers published on public MIT pages. The MIT Phone Number Scraper on Apify does this automatically for your keywords and country and returns validated, structured results.

#### 🔹 How do I find an MIT professor's phone number?

Enter keywords such as `professor` or a field like `robotics`, choose **United States (+1)** and start the run. The MIT Phone Number Scraper collects office numbers shown on public mit.edu faculty, lab and department pages.

#### 🔹 Do I need an MIT account to use the MIT Phone Number Scraper?

No. The Actor works only with publicly available information, so it needs no MIT login or campus account. You only need an Apify account.

#### 🔹 Why did the MIT Phone Number Scraper return fewer phone numbers than my maximum?

The maximum is an upper limit, not a guarantee. If only a few public pages match your keyword and country, the MIT Phone Number Scraper finishes early with the numbers it found. Try broader keywords, more keywords or another country.

#### 🔹 Can the MIT Phone Number Scraper collect numbers from a specific country?

Yes. Choose one of 194 countries in the **Country** field. Only numbers valid for that country are saved, together with the country name and dial code.

#### 🔹 In what format does the MIT Phone Number Scraper save phone numbers?

All numbers are saved in the international E.164 format, such as `+441314960234`, which works well with CRMs, dialers and spreadsheets.

#### 🔹 Does the MIT Phone Number Scraper remove duplicates?

Yes. Each phone number is saved only once per run, even if several keywords or pages contain it. The first keyword that found the number is stored in the `keyword` field.

#### 🔹 Can I run the MIT Phone Number Scraper on a schedule or through an API?

Yes. You can schedule runs in Apify Console, start them with the Apify API, and send the results to other tools with webhooks or integrations.

#### 🔹 Is it legal to use an MIT Phone Number Scraper?

The MIT Phone Number Scraper collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using it in line with GDPR, CCPA and local telemarketing rules.

### 📬 MIT Phone Number Scraper Support

Have a question about the MIT Phone Number Scraper, found an issue, or need a tweak or a custom build? Get in touch – feedback and feature requests are always welcome.

- contact me by email :  alphascraper69@gmail.com

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

A list of keywords to search for. (Example: John, marketing, etc.)

## `country` (type: `string`):

Select a country to scrape related phone numbers.

## `maxPhoneNumbers` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of phone numbers to collect. The scraper will stop once this limit is reached. Setting a higher limit allows for more potential results but doesn't guarantee reaching that number. This helps save costs by controlling scraping time.

## `perKeywordMaxContacts` (type: `boolean`):

ON (default): "Max Phone Numbers" is a target for EACH keyword, so the scraper works through every keyword instead of stopping once the first one fills up. OFF: it is a single total for the whole run. ⚠️ Heads-up: with this ON the run can collect (and be billed for) Max Phone Numbers × number of keywords, and takes proportionally longer.

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

Configure proxies for this Actor.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "professor",
    "researcher"
  ],
  "country": "United States (+1)",
  "maxPhoneNumbers": 5,
  "perKeywordMaxContacts": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Structured records extracted by MIT Phone Number Scraper and stored in the run's default dataset.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "professor",
        "researcher"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper").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 = { "keywords": [
        "professor",
        "researcher",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "professor",
    "researcher"
  ]
}' |
apify call phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,phone_number_scraper/mit-phone-number-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YF4fHqWwUhHobQJvi/builds/LcasDpNdpAgRXC1bY/openapi.json