🎯 Website Lead & Contact Info Extractor (Apify Actor)

Effortlessly extract verified business emails, phone numbers, and social media handles (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, GitHub) from any website.

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💡 What Does This Actor Do?

The Website Lead & Contact Info Extractor automatically crawls target websites to discover valuable B2B contact details.

Instead of manually browsing hundreds of websites looking for email addresses and contact pages, this Actor visits:

1. The Homepage
2. High-priority contact pages (e.g. /contact, /about, /team, /support, /impressum)

It intelligently filters noise (like image assets or spam trackers) and delivers clean, enriched contact profiles ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets.

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✨ Features

• ✉️ Email Address Extractor: Extracts and sanitizes valid emails from mailto: links and page text.
• 📞 Phone Number Extractor: Discovers phone numbers from tel: links and standard international number patterns.
• 🌐 Social Profile Links: Finds profiles for:
  • LinkedIn (Company & Personal profiles)
  • Twitter / X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • GitHub
  • TikTok
• 🏷️ Website Metadata: Captures site title, meta description, and CMS generator hints.
• ⚡ Blazing Fast & Low Cost: Powered by Crawlee CheerioCrawler — uses minimal compute units (CUs) and no heavy headless browser overhead.
• 🛡️ Anti-Noise Filtering: Automatically discards common false positives (e.g. .png, sentry.io, example.com).

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💼 High-Value Use Cases

• B2B Cold Email Outreach: Build targeted prospect lists for SDRs and sales teams.
• Agency Client Prospecting: Find decision makers and contact information for local or global businesses.
• Influencer & Creator Discovery: Find direct contact emails from creator websites and portfolios.
• Competitor & Market Research: Audit competitor websites, social presence, and tech footprints.

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Configure the Actor in the Apify Console or via JSON:

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	["https://crawlee.dev", "https://apify.com"]	Target URLs to crawl and extract contacts from.
maxDepth	Integer	1	0 = Homepage only; 1 = Homepage + contact/about pages.
maxPagesPerDomain	Integer	5	Maximum subpages to crawl per target domain.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	Integer	50	Safety limit for total HTTP requests across all domains.
proxyConfiguration	Object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Apify Proxy settings (optional).

Example Input JSON

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://stripe.com" },
    { "url": "https://github.com" }
  ],
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 3,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 20
}

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📊 Sample Output Data

Each result in the dataset contains structured contact and metadata information:

{
  "domain": "example.com",
  "homepageUrl": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Example Business - Modern Cloud Solutions",
  "description": "Leading cloud solutions and developer tooling for global enterprises.",
  "emails": [
    "contact@example.com",
    "sales@example.com",
    "press@example.com"
  ],
  "phones": [
    "+1 (555) 234-5678"
  ],
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example",
  "twitter": "https://x.com/example",
  "facebook": "https://facebook.com/example",
  "instagram": "https://instagram.com/example",
  "youtube": "https://youtube.com/@example",
  "github": "https://github.com/example",
  "tiktok": null,
  "pagesVisitedCount": 3,
  "pagesVisited": [
    "https://example.com",
    "https://example.com/contact",
    "https://example.com/about"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T16:00:00.000Z"
}

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🚀 How to Publish to Apify.com

Method 1: Push via GitHub (Recommended)

1. Push this folder to a GitHub repository (e.g. github.com/your-username/website-contact-extractor).
2. Go to Apify Console > Actors > Create new.
3. Choose Link Git repository and connect your repo.
4. Click Build & Save. Apify will automatically build the Docker image using Dockerfile and setup the input UI using .actor/input_schema.json!

Method 2: Push via Apify CLI

1. Install Apify CLI globally:

   $npm install -g apify-cli
   

2. Log in with your Apify API Token:

   $apify login
   

3. In this directory, push your Actor:

   $apify push
   

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💰 How to Monetize on Apify Store

1. In your Actor dashboard on Apify, click Publication > Publish to Apify Store.
2. Select your monetization model:
   • Pay per result (PPR): e.g. $2.00 - $5.00 per 1,000 scraped leads.
   • Monthly Rental: e.g. $19 - $49 / month for unlimited runs.
3. Add a clear description, icon, and tags (lead-generation, contact-scraper, email-finder).
4. Apify reviews and publishes your Actor to their marketplace, and you earn monthly payouts!

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💻 Local Testing & Development

Run the Actor locally on your computer:

# 1. Install dependencies
npm install

# 2. Run the crawler
npm start

Results will be stored locally in ./storage/datasets/default/.