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🎯 Recruiter Lead Finder – Extract HR & Talent Acquisition Contacts (Emails, LinkedIn, Phone)

Crawl company websites to find recruiters, HR managers, talent acquisition specialists, and people ops contacts. Extract email addresses, LinkedIn profiles, phone numbers, Twitter handles – automatically deduplicated across domains.
Perfect for recruitment agencies, sales teams, B2B lead generation, and talent sourcing. Smart crawling prioritises contact pages, team directories, and “people” sections. Includes Playwright fallback for JavaScript‑heavy sites and checkpoint/resume.

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💡 What is the Recruiter Lead Finder?

The Recruiter Lead Finder is an intelligent Apify actor that automatically discovers HR and talent acquisition contacts from any company website. It:

• Crawls a domain (configurable depth, default 40 pages) while staying on the same site
• Prioritises pages likely to contain contact info: /contact, /team, /about, /people, /leadership, /careers, /recruit, /talent
• Extracts email addresses (validated, de‑obfuscated, filtered from file extensions and year ranges)
• Extracts LinkedIn profiles (individual /in/ and company /company/ URLs)
• Extracts phone numbers (validated, rejecting dates and copyright years)
• Extracts Twitter/X handles (skipping share/intent links)
• Detects job titles matching HR/TA/People roles (Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, HR Manager, People Partner, Sourcer, etc.)
• Matches page content against target keywords (customisable)
• Outputs two types of items:
  1. Page‑scan items – one per crawled page, including all contacts found on that page.
  2. Contact items – one per unique contact (email, LinkedIn, phone, Twitter), deduplicated globally across all start URLs in the same run.

The actor uses curl_cffi with Chrome impersonation for fast HTTP requests and falls back to Playwright (headless Chromium) for JavaScript‑rendered pages. It respects maxPagesPerDomain, supports checkpoint/resume, and automatically skips locale‑specific pages (e.g., /de/, /fr/) to avoid duplicate content.

Pricing: Pay only for successfully crawled pages that contain new contacts (deduplicated). $2.50 per 1,000 contact‑bearing pages + $0.02 actor start. Failed pages cost nothing.

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🚀 Key Features

Feature	Description
Smart prioritisation	Crawls contact, team, about, people, leadership, careers, recruit, talent pages first.
HR/TA keyword matching	Detects pages mentioning recruiter, talent acquisition, HR, people ops, sourcing, etc.
Contact extraction	Emails (mailto + obfuscated), LinkedIn profiles (in/company), phone numbers, Twitter handles.
Job title detection	Extracts specific HR roles (Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Specialist, HR Manager, People Partner, etc.).
Global deduplication	Across multiple start URLs – the same contact appears only once (saves money).
Dual fetch engine	Fast HTTP (curl_cffi) + Playwright fallback for JS‑heavy sites.
Checkpoint & resume	Saves progress after each page; resumes from last state if interrupted.
Skip locale pages	Ignores /de/, /fr/, /zh-Hans/ variants to avoid crawling the same content multiple times.
Residential proxy ready	Bypass IP blocks (recommended for large crawls).
Pay‑per‑result pricing	$0.02 actor start + $2.50 per 1,000 pages that yield new contacts. Failed pages are free.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array of objects	Yes	–	List of starting URLs, e.g., [{"url": "https://stripe.com"}].
targetKeywords	array of strings	No	Built‑in list (recruiter, talent, hr, human resources, hiring, talent acquisition, people, people team, sourcer, recruiting, talent partner, people ops, hr manager)	Custom keywords to prioritise pages.
maxPagesPerDomain	integer	No	40	Maximum pages to crawl per domain.
maxConcurrency	integer	No	20	Number of concurrent HTTP requests.
maxContactsPerPage	integer	No	100	Limit extracted contacts per page.
usePlaywrightFallback	boolean	No	true	Use headless browser for pages that fail HTTP or have little content.
skipLocalizedPages	boolean	No	true	Skip URLs containing locale prefixes (/de/, /fr/).
checkpointKey	string	No	""	Custom checkpoint key to isolate state for different runs.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	–	Apify proxy configuration. Residential strongly recommended.

Example Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://stripe.com"},
    {"url": "https://shopify.com"}
  ],
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 15,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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📤 Output Fields

The actor pushes two types of items to the dataset:

1. Page‑scan item (record_type: "page_scan")

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	"page_scan"
company_domain	string	Domain of the crawled website.
source_url	string	URL of the crawled page.
page_title	string	Extracted page title.
meta_description	string	Meta description (if any).
matched_keywords	array	Which target keywords were found on this page.
job_titles	array	Extracted HR/TA job titles from the page.
emails	array	Email addresses found.
linkedin_profiles	array	LinkedIn profile URLs.
phone_numbers	array	Phone numbers.
twitter_handles	array	Twitter/X profile URLs.
new_contacts_found	integer	Number of new contacts discovered on this page (globally deduplicated).
page_preview	string	First 800 characters of cleaned page text.
status_code	integer	HTTP status code (if any).
error	string	Error message if failed.

2. Contact item (record_type: "contact")

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	"contact"
contact_type	string	email, linkedin_profile, phone, twitter_handle.
contact_value	string	The actual contact (email, URL, phone number, Twitter handle).
job_titles_on_page	array	HR/TA job titles extracted from the page where the contact was found.
company_domain	string	Company domain.
source_url	string	URL where the contact was discovered.
page_title	string	Title of that page.
matched_keywords	array	Keywords matched on the page.

Example Output (Page‑scan)

{
  "record_type": "page_scan",
  "company_domain": "stripe.com",
  "source_url": "https://stripe.com/jobs",
  "page_title": "Jobs at Stripe",
  "meta_description": "Join Stripe and help build the economic infrastructure of the internet.",
  "matched_keywords": ["recruiter", "talent", "hiring", "careers"],
  "job_titles": ["Recruiter", "Talent Acquisition Partner"],
  "emails": ["talent@stripe.com"],
  "linkedin_profiles": ["https://linkedin.com/company/stripe"],
  "phone_numbers": [],
  "twitter_handles": [],
  "new_contacts_found": 2,
  "page_preview": "We are hiring...",
  "status_code": 200,
  "error": ""
}

Example Output (Contact)

{
  "record_type": "contact",
  "contact_type": "email",
  "contact_value": "talent@stripe.com",
  "job_titles_on_page": ["Recruiter", "Talent Acquisition Partner"],
  "company_domain": "stripe.com",
  "source_url": "https://stripe.com/jobs",
  "page_title": "Jobs at Stripe",
  "matched_keywords": ["recruiter", "talent", "hiring", "careers"]
}

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💰 Pricing

Component	Price
Actor start (per run)	$0.02
Per successful page that yields new contacts	$0.0025
Per 1,000 such pages	$2.50

• You are charged only for pages that are successfully fetched, parsed, and contain at least one new contact (globally deduplicated across all start URLs in the same run).
• Pages that return errors, have no contacts, or contain only already‑seen contacts are free.
• Example: 500 pages with new contacts = $0.02 + (500 × $0.0025) = $1.27.
• Example: 2,500 pages with new contacts = $0.02 + (2,500 × $0.0025) = $6.27.

Checkpoint/resume: If the actor stops (spending limit, timeout, manual stop), you can restart – it will resume from the last saved state and only charge for new pages with new contacts that haven't been processed before.

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🛠 How to Use on Apify

1. Create a task with this actor.
2. Provide one or more start URLs – these are the company websites you want to find recruiters for.
3. Adjust maxPagesPerDomain – 30–50 is usually enough to find all contact pages.
4. Enable residential proxies – strongly recommended to avoid being blocked.
5. Run – the actor crawls each domain, prioritising contact/team pages, extracts contacts, and pushes results.
6. Export – download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Running via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/your-username~recruiter-lead-finder/runs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://stripe.com"}],
    "maxPagesPerDomain": 30,
    "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}
  }'

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🎯 Use Cases

Use Case	How It Helps
Recruitment agencies	Build lists of in‑house recruiters and TA professionals to pitch your staffing services.
Sales teams (HR tech)	Find decision‑makers for HR software, payroll, benefits, or talent platforms.
B2B lead generation	Enrich CRM with verified HR contact emails and LinkedIn profiles.
Sourcing automation	Automatically discover the right people to contact for candidate placements.
Market research	Analyse how companies structure their TA teams (titles, contact methods).

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

1. What exactly counts as a “successful page” for pricing?
A page is considered successful if:

• HTTP status is 200 (or successful redirect).
• The page is parsed and at least one new, unique contact (email, LinkedIn, phone, Twitter) is discovered that has not been seen in any previous page of the same run (across all start URLs).

2. Can I run the actor without a proxy?
For a small number of domains (1–5) with few pages, datacenter IPs may work. For larger runs, residential proxies are strongly recommended to avoid rate limiting (429) and blocking (403).

3. What does the “skipLocalizedPages” option do?
It prevents crawling URLs like https://example.com/de/, https://example.com/fr/, etc., which often contain the same content in different languages. This avoids duplicate processing and saves cost.

4. How does the actor detect HR‑related job titles?
It scans the page text for patterns like:

• Recruiter
• Talent Acquisition (Specialist/Manager/Partner/Lead)
• HR Manager / Human Resources (Manager/Director/Business Partner)
• People Partner / People Operations
• Sourcer
• Hiring Manager
• Talent Partner

5. Are phone numbers validated?
Yes. The actor rejects numbers that look like:

• Copyright year ranges (2020-2024)
• Bare 4‑digit years
• Date formats (12/12/2024)
• All‑digit strings without separators (e.g., 12345678 – too short/long or no formatting) Only well‑formatted numbers with 7–15 digits and appropriate punctuation are kept.

6. What does “checkpoint/resume” mean?
The actor saves its state (which URLs have been processed, which contacts have been seen) to the key‑value store. If the run stops (e.g., spending limit reached), you can restart the same actor with the same input – it will continue from where it left off without re‑charging for already processed pages.

7. Can I customise the target keywords?
Yes. Provide a targetKeywords array in the input. Only pages containing at least one of these keywords will be prioritised (though all pages are scanned for contacts).

8. Why am I charged only for pages with new contacts?
To avoid paying for duplicate results (e.g., the same email appears on multiple pages). Once a contact is discovered, any subsequent page that contains it will not trigger a charge.

9. What happens if the actor encounters a page that requires login?
The actor will likely receive a 403 or 302 redirect to a login page, which will be classified as a failure – you will not be charged.

10. Can I use this actor to scrape individual LinkedIn profiles?
It extracts LinkedIn profile URLs (e.g., linkedin.com/in/username), but does not scrape those profiles themselves. For full LinkedIn profile scraping, see our link.

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Start finding recruiter contacts today – $0.02 per run + $2.50 per 1,000 pages with new contacts. Smart crawling, global dedup, proxy ready.