WebLeadMiner — Email & Social Media Scraper

Extract professional emails, phone numbers, and social media profiles from any website or business directory. Multi-page crawling, auto-detection of directory pages, 5 extraction strategies, 13 social networks.

What it does

Give WebLeadMiner a URL — it crawls the site and returns a clean dataset of leads:

• ✅ Professional email addresses (categorized: pro / generic / service)
• ✅ LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube and 7 more
• ✅ Phone numbers (including hidden behind reveal buttons)
• ✅ Company name, address, fax — from directory detail pages
• ✅ External website URL — auto-crawled for emails when found in directories
• ✅ Zero duplicates — deduplication built-in
• ✅ Source URL for every lead

Two modes — one Actor

WebLeadMiner automatically detects what kind of page you give it:

Mode	When	What it does
BFS Crawler	Company website	Explores all pages of the site depth-first
Directory	Annuaire, search results, marketplace	Paginates results → visits each detail page → extracts contacts

Set crawlMode to auto (default) and WebLeadMiner decides. Or force a mode if needed.

Usage examples

Example 1 — Scrape a company website

{
  "startUrls": ["https://example.com"],
  "crawlMode": "auto",
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 20,
  "maxDepth": 3,
  "linkedin": true,
  "facebook": true,
  "instagram": true,
  "phone": true,
  "verifyEmails": false
}

What happens: WebLeadMiner crawls all pages of example.com (contact, team, about first), extracts emails and social profiles, deduplicates, and returns results.

Expected output: 1–10 leads per company site with emails and social profiles.

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Example 2 — Search a business directory (annuaire)

{
  "startUrls": ["https://pagesjaunes-dz.com/Companies?zone_quoi=&zone_ou="],
  "keyword": "informatique",
  "crawlMode": "directory",
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 100,
  "linkedin": true,
  "facebook": true,
  "phone": true,
  "includeSocialOnly": true
}

What happens:

1. WebLeadMiner injects informatique into the search URL → ?zone_quoi=informatique
2. Paginates through all result pages (20 companies per page)
3. Visits each company detail page
4. Clicks reveal buttons to get hidden phone numbers
5. Finds the company's external website → crawls it for emails
6. Returns all contacts found

Expected output: Hundreds of leads with company names, phones, social profiles, and emails from their websites.

Real run — logs:

Real run — output dataset:

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Example 3 — Quick homepage scan

{
  "startUrls": ["https://example.com"],
  "crawlMode": "bfs",
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 1,
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "linkedin": true,
  "phone": true
}

What happens: Forces BFS crawler mode. With maxPagesPerDomain: 1 and maxDepth: 1, only the homepage is scraped. Increase maxPagesPerDomain and maxDepth to crawl more pages. Fast and cheap — useful for bulk URL lists where a quick scan is enough.

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Example 4 — Bulk list of company websites

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://company-a.com",
    "https://company-b.fr",
    "https://company-c.dz"
  ],
  "crawlMode": "auto",
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 10,
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "verifyEmails": true,
  "linkedin": true,
  "facebook": true,
  "phone": true
}

What happens: Crawls each domain independently, deduplicates per domain, returns verified emails only.

Configuration

Core settings

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	required	URLs to scrape. One URL per line.
keyword	String	—	Search keyword injected into directory URLs. Example: informatique, finance, beton
crawlMode	Select	auto	auto = detect automatically · bfs = force site crawling · directory = force directory mode
maxPagesPerDomain	Integer	20	Max pages crawled per domain (1–100). Increase for large directories.
maxDepth	Integer	3	How deep to follow links (1 = homepage only)

Email settings

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
verifyEmails	Boolean	false	MX DNS verification — eliminates emails from invalid domains. Slower but higher quality.
includeSocialOnly	Boolean	true	Also return leads that have social profiles but no email

Social networks

Parameter	Default	Parameter	Default
linkedin	✅ true	pinterest	❌ false
facebook	✅ true	discord	❌ false
instagram	✅ true	snapchat	❌ false
twitter	✅ true	threads	❌ false
tiktok	✅ true	telegram	❌ false
youtube	✅ true	reddit	❌ false
phone	✅ true	whatsapp	❌ false

Proxy

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
proxyConfiguration	Object	disabled	Apify proxy settings. Recommended for heavily protected sites.

Output

Standard lead (company website)

{
  "email": "jean.dupont@example.com",
  "emailCategory": "pro",
  "socialOnly": false,
  "domain": "example.com",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/contact",
  "validationReason": "syntax_ok",
  "socials": {
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/example",
    "facebook": "https://facebook.com/examplepage",
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/example",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/example",
    "phone": "+33 1 23 45 67 89"
  }
}

Directory lead (annuaire detail page)

{
  "email": "contact@solutionsinformatiques.dz",
  "emailCategory": "generic",
  "socialOnly": false,
  "companyName": "Solutions Informatiques Algérie",
  "address": "10, Coopérative El Yasmine, Alger",
  "fax": "+213 23 54 19 90",
  "phones": ["+213 23 54 19 90", "+213 555 12 34 56"],
  "domain": "solutionsinformatiques.dz",
  "sourceUrl": "https://pagesjaunes-dz.com/Companies/detail/...",
  "socials": {
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/sii-algerie",
    "facebook": "https://facebook.com/sii.algerie",
    "youtube": "https://youtube.com/@siialgerie",
    "phone": "+213 23 54 19 90"
  }
}

Email categories

Category	Example	Use
pro	jean.dupont@acme.com	Direct contact — highest value
generic	contact@acme.com, info@acme.com	Department inbox — medium value
service	support@acme.com, admin@acme.com	Service inbox — low value

How it works

5 email extraction strategies — in order of reliability:

1. Cloudflare XOR decode — breaks email obfuscation used by CF-protected sites
2. JSON-LD structured data — extracts from Person and Organization schema
3. mailto: link extraction — standard HTML email links
4. Obfuscated text patterns — detects [at], (dot), name [at] domain formats
5. Regex on visible text — last resort sweep over page content

Directory auto-detection — WebLeadMiner identifies directory pages by looking for:

• 5+ repetitive result cards with the same CSS pattern
• Pagination links present on the page

When detected, it switches to directory mode automatically — no configuration needed.

Keyword injection — when a keyword is provided, WebLeadMiner finds the empty search parameter in the URL and fills it automatically. Supports: q, query, search, zone_quoi, find_desc, what, term, and more.

Feature comparison

Feature	WebLeadMiner	Generic scrapers
Multi-page BFS crawling	✅ Up to 100 pages/site	⚠️ Homepage only
Directory / annuaire mode	✅ Auto-detected	❌
Keyword injection into search URLs	✅	❌
Hidden phone reveal (button click)	✅	❌
Priority pages (contact, team, about)	✅ Visited first	❌
Cloudflare email decode (XOR)	✅	❌
Obfuscated email detection	✅	❌
JSON-LD structured data	✅	⚠️ Partial
Platform email filter (Wix, Shopify…)	✅	❌
MX DNS email verification	✅ Built-in	💰 Extra cost
Browser stealth (anti-bot)	✅	⚠️ Basic
Social-only leads	✅ Optional	❌

Pricing

Pay per result — not per page crawled.

	Price
Per lead found	$5.00 / 1,000 leads
Actor start	$0.001

Competitors charge per page crawled — you pay even when a page returns nothing. WebLeadMiner charges only for actual results.

MX DNS email verification is included at no extra cost — runs within normal compute time.

⚠️ Enabling verifyEmails reduces result count — emails from domains without a valid MX record are discarded. Use it when quality matters more than quantity (cold email campaigns, CRM imports).

Tips

More leads:

• Increase maxPagesPerDomain to 50–100 for large sites or directories
• Enable includeSocialOnly: true to capture brands without public emails
• Use crawlMode: directory for annuaires, Yellow Pages, marketplaces

Faster runs:

• Set maxPagesPerDomain to 5 and maxDepth to 1 for quick homepage scans
• Run multiple URLs in parallel in a single Actor run

Avoid blocks:

• Proxy is not required for most sites — built-in stealth handles detection
• Use Apify residential proxies only for heavily protected sites (Cloudflare Enterprise, Datadome)

Use cases

• 🎯 B2B lead generation — find decision-maker emails for outreach campaigns
• 📋 Directory harvesting — extract all businesses from PagesJaunes, Yelp, local directories
• 🔍 Prospect research — discover social profiles and websites of target companies
• 📊 Market research — build contact databases for a specific industry or region
• 🤝 Partnership outreach — find contact emails for potential partners

Legal

This Actor extracts only publicly available information visible on websites. Always comply with the target website's Terms of Service and applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA). The user is solely responsible for how extracted data is used.