Contact Details Extractor — Pay Only For Results

Give it a list of website URLs and get back clean, validated contact details: emails, phone numbers, and social profile links — one row per website.

The pricing is different from every other contact scraper: you are only billed for rows that contain at least one verified contact field. Empty rows are free. If we can't find anything verifiable on a site, that result costs you $0 — you never pay for dead URLs, parked domains, or sites that block crawlers.

What counts as a verified (billable) row

A row is billed only if it contains at least one of:

Signal	Validation applied
Email address	Syntax check and live MX record on the domain (the domain can actually receive mail)
Phone number	Parses as a valid number for its region (Google's libphonenumber)
Social profiles	2 or more distinct platforms (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok)

Everything else is delivered free — including partial data that didn't pass validation, so you can still see what was found.

Output

One row per input URL:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "emails": [{ "value": "info@example.com", "source": "contact-page", "mxValid": true }],
  "phones": [{ "value": "+14155551234", "formatted": "(415) 555-1234", "valid": true }],
  "socials": {
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/example",
    "x": null, "facebook": "https://facebook.com/example",
    "instagram": null, "youtube": null, "tiktok": null
  },
  "billable": true,
  "confidence": "high",
  "pagesCrawled": 4,
  "crawlMode": "cheerio"
}

The billable field tells you exactly which rows you paid for. confidence is high when 2+ verified signal types are present, medium for 1, low/none otherwise.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
startUrls	—	List of website URLs. One output row per URL.
maxPagesPerDomain	5	How many pages to crawl per site (1–20). Contact, about, and legal pages are found and prioritized automatically.
includeSocials	true	Also extract social profile links.
phoneRegionHint	US	Two-letter country code used to validate phone numbers written without an international prefix.
useBrowserFallback	true	If static crawling finds nothing, retry the site with a real headless browser (helps with JavaScript-heavy sites).

How it works

1. The homepage of each site is fetched and scanned.
2. Links to contact, about, imprint/legal, and support pages are scored and crawled first — the page budget is never wasted on blog posts or product pages.
3. Contact data is extracted from visible text, mailto:/tel: links, and JSON-LD structured data that businesses publish about themselves.
4. Emails get an MX lookup, phones are validated per region, social links are normalized (share/intent links are filtered out).
5. Crawling stops early once a site has yielded a full contact set, so runs stay fast and cheap.

Fair crawling & data ethics

• Only business-published contact information is collected — what companies put on their own contact pages, footers, and structured data. No third-party enrichment, no guessed email patterns, no personal-data lookups.
• robots.txt is respected, requests are throttled to one at a time per domain, and the crawler identifies itself with a descriptive user agent.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is built for autonomous use by AI agents via the Apify MCP server:

• Bounded, results-based spend — an agent can never burn budget on failed lookups: rows without verified data cost $0, and the Maximum cost per run option hard-caps total spend per run.
• Limited permissions — the Actor cannot access user data beyond its own run.
• Machine-readable output — the billable and confidence fields let an agent filter for verified contacts without re-validating anything.

Minimal input an agent needs:

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com" }] }

Frequently asked questions

How do I extract email addresses from a list of websites?

Paste your URLs into startUrls and run. The Actor crawls each site's contact, about, and legal pages, extracts emails from text, mailto: links, and JSON-LD, then MX-validates each address so you only pay for emails whose domain can actually receive mail.

What does it cost to scrape contact details?

$6.00 per 1,000 verified contact rows — and only verified rows count. A row with no MX-valid email, no valid phone, and fewer than 2 social profiles is delivered free. There is no subscription and no per-URL or compute charge.

How is this different from other contact scrapers?

Most scrapers bill per URL processed or per compute-second, so dead domains and bot-walled sites cost as much as hits. Here, billing is gated on validation: if nothing on the row is verified, the row is free.

Can it find phone numbers and social media profiles too?

Yes — phones are validated with libphonenumber against your phoneRegionHint, and social links are recognized across LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok (share/intent links are filtered out).

Good to know

• Sites that block datacenter traffic (some large retail chains) may return an empty row. You are not charged for those.
• Use the Maximum cost per run option in the run settings to hard-cap spending — the Actor stops charging the moment your limit is reached.
• Found a problem? Open an issue on this page — issues are checked daily.