Scout Lead Generator

Scout Lead Generator is an Apify Actor that automatically discovers and scrapes company leads and category/niche influencers across 8 social platforms — extract verified contact emails, phone numbers, bio links, follower metrics, and lead scores.

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What It Does

1. Company Lead Generation: Input company names or domains ("Nike", "adobe.com", "openai.com") to discover their official social profiles and contact info.
2. Category / Niche Influencer Discovery: Input categories or niches ("fitness", "tech", "crypto", "fashion", "gaming", "beauty") to automatically discover top influencer profiles in that niche.
3. Deep Contact Scraping: Scrapes company & influencer websites, contact pages (/contact, /about), and bio links (Linktree, Beacons, Stan store) to extract verified contact emails and phone numbers.
4. Email Pattern Prediction: Generates business email candidates (contact@domain, sales@domain, first.last@domain) and performs SMTP MX verification.
5. Exports: Pushes all lead & influencer data directly to Apify Dataset (exportable to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML).

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Input

JSON Input Example (Company & Influencer Discovery)

{
  "companies": [
    "Nike",
    "adobe.com"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "fitness",
    "tech"
  ],
  "influencersPerCategory": 5,
  "platforms": ["instagram", "youtube", "linkedin", "github"],
  "searchMode": "auto",
  "enrich": true,
  "outputFormat": "csv",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Description
companies	array	Optional. List of company names, domains (nike.com), or URLs
categories	array	Optional. List of influencer categories/niches ("fitness", "tech", "crypto")
influencersPerCategory	integer	Number of influencer profiles to discover per category (default: 5)
platforms	array	Target platforms (instagram, linkedin, tiktok, github, youtube, twitch, pinterest, linktree)
searchMode	string	auto (discovers handles) or manual (you provide them)
manualUsernames	object	For manual mode: {"instagram": "nike", "github": "openai"}
enrich	boolean	Perform deep website scraping, phone detection, email pattern prediction, and lead scoring
outputFormat	string	dataset (default), csv, or json
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy configuration
linkedinCookie	string	li_at session cookie for LinkedIn scraping (secret)
hunterApiKey	string	Hunter.io API key for professional email enrichment (secret)
googleApiKey	string	Google Custom Search API key for accurate auto-discovery (secret)
googleCseId	string	Google Custom Search Engine ID

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Output Example

{
  "company_input": "Category: fitness",
  "company_name": "Keiani (@keianimabe)",
  "domain": null,
  "website": "https://keiani.com",
  "phone": "(512) 200-8725",
  "emails_found": [
    "keiani@dulcedo.com",
    "contactus@keiani.com"
  ],
  "email": "keiani@dulcedo.com",
  "email_score": 90,
  "email_source": "direct",
  "email_verified": true,
  "lead_score": 75,
  "handles": {
    "youtube": "keianimabe",
    "instagram": "keianimabe"
  },
  "platforms": {
    "youtube": {
      "handle": "keianimabe",
      "followers": 150000,
      "bio": "Fitness & lifestyle creator."
    }
  }
}

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Deployment & Local Testing

Prerequisites

npm install -g apify-cli
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run Locally

$apify run

Push to Apify Console

apify login
apify push

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License

MIT