# Verified B2B Email Finder (`thoob/verified-lead-pipeline`) Actor Finds published business contact emails on companies' own public pages and bills only for addresses proven deliverable. US data only. - **URL**: https://apify.com/thoob/verified-lead-pipeline.md - **Developed by:** [Pono Data](https://apify.com/thoob) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools - **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.10 / 1,000 verified deliverable emails This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Verified B2B Email Finder Find business contact emails on a company's own public pages, verify that each one is deliverable, and pay only for the ones that pass. Most email finders guess addresses from a name and a domain pattern, then leave the bouncing to you. This one does the opposite: it reads the company's own public pages, takes only addresses that are actually published there, checks each for deliverability, and charges you only for the ones that clear the check. ### What it does - Reads a company's own public pages (home, contact, about, team, company, leadership, press, and similar) and follows contact-type links one or more hops in. - Takes only addresses published on those pages. It never guesses `firstname@domain`. If it is not on the page, it is not in your results. - Verifies each address before you are billed: valid syntax, a real mail server (MX), and a live deliverability check. - Returns role inboxes (sales@, info@, hello@) and, where the page names a person beside the address, a contact name and title. - Hands back the addresses that failed or came up uncertain in a separate, free dataset, so you can see the work you were not charged for. ### What you pay You only pay for clean data: a contact published on the company's own page and proven deliverable. $5 per 1,000 of them. One price, one line item. Checks, misses, catch-all domains, and rejects are all free. A domain that publishes no reachable address returns a free row telling you so, and a site that refuses our crawler returns a free `blocked_by_target` row, so nothing is hidden and no run bills you for empty work. ### Example output One row per verified lead. A real sample (from a public test run): | domain | email | type | name | deliverable | confidence | sourceUrl | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | kagi.com | vlad@kagi.com | personal | Vladimir Prelovac | yes | 1.0 | help.kagi.com/kagi/company/ | | viget.com | hello@viget.com | role | | yes | 1.0 | viget.com/ | | sparkbox.com | info@sparkbox.com | role | | yes | 1.0 | sparkbox.com/contact | | sparkfun.com | sales@sparkfun.com | role | | yes | 1.0 | sparkfun.com/contact | | bocoup.com | hello@bocoup.com | role | | yes | 1.0 | bocoup.com/ | Every row carries its `sourceUrl` and the time it was checked, so any address can be traced back to the page it came from. ### What to expect This works best on companies that publish a contact or team page. In a 20-company test of US small businesses, 16 returned at least one verified address. Companies that route all contact through a web form, or that hide addresses behind images, return nothing, and you are told so for free rather than billed for a guess. Results depend on how a company chooses to publish its contact details. ### Scope US business data only for now. Domains on EU, UK, EEA, or sanctioned country codes are turned away and not charged. Public pages only: no logins, no paywalls, no access barriers, and the crawler identifies itself, respects robots.txt, and backs off when a site asks it to. A business owner can ask us to skip their domain at https://ponodata.com/opt-out . Opted-out domains are skipped and never charged. ### How to use 1. Paste a list of company domains or root URLs. 2. Run. 3. Export the verified leads. The free rejects sit in the named `rejected` dataset. ### Inputs - `domains`: company domains or root URLs (US scope). - `maxEmailsPerDomain`: stop a domain after this many verified leads. Default 5. - `discoverNamedContacts`: attach a name and title when the page shows one beside the address. Default on. - `verificationLevel`: `provider` (default) runs a live deliverability check on each found address. `mx` checks only that a mail server exists. `smtp` checks directly but needs outbound port 25, which most cloud platforms block. - `requestDelaySecs`: seconds to pause between requests to one site. Default 1, raised automatically to a site's robots.txt Crawl-delay. - `maxConcurrency`: how many domains to work at once. Default 5. ### Output fields `domain`, `email`, `emailType` (role or personal), `personName`, `personTitle`, `confidence`, `mxValid`, `smtpDeliverable`, `catchAll`, `sourceUrl`, `verifiedAt`, `jurisdiction`. ### FAQ - **Do you guess emails?** No. Found on the page and verified, or it is not in your results. - **What am I billed for?** Only an address that passes a live deliverability check. Failed, uncertain, and catch-all addresses are free. - **Is this public data?** Yes. Public pages only, no logins, no access barriers. - **Can I use my own verifier?** Yes. Supply a MillionVerifier key to verify on your own credits. You are still only billed for verified leads. - **Who is responsible for how the data is used?** You are. This supplies lawfully gathered public business contacts; lawful outreach is on the sender. ### Keywords email finder, B2B leads, lead generation, company emails, verified emails, email verification, contact scraper, sales leads ### Sample output A real run finding published business contacts on a company's own pages: | email | type | MX valid | SMTP deliverable | catch-all | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | press@kagi.com | role | True | True | False | | support@kagi.com | role | True | True | False | | vlad@kagi.com | personal | True | True | False | | libraries@kagi.com | role | True | True | False | Every lead carries the `sourceUrl` (the page it was published on), for example `https://kagi.com/press`. You pay only for a verified-deliverable address. ### See also More clean, pay-only-for-results data tools from Pono Data: - [Bulk Email Validator](https://apify.com/thoob/email-validator) - syntax, MX, disposable, and role flags - [Bulk DNS Lookup](https://apify.com/thoob/dns-bulk-lookup) - DNS records plus SPF, DMARC, and CAA - [Sitemap Extractor](https://apify.com/thoob/sitemap-extractor) - every URL from any sitemap Full catalog: https://apify.com/thoob # Actor input Schema ## `domains` (type: `array`): Domains to find verified contact emails for. US scope only: non-US country domains are rejected unbilled. Paste, or pipe from Business Filings Firehose. ## `maxEmailsPerDomain` (type: `integer`): Stop a domain once this many deliverable leads are found. ## `discoverNamedContacts` (type: `boolean`): Attach a person name and title to an email when the page makes it clear. ## `verificationLevel` (type: `string`): provider (default) verifies each found address through a built-in deliverability API, at no extra charge. smtp checks deliverability directly but needs outbound port 25, which this platform blocks. mx alone is weak. You are only ever charged for a verified-deliverable lead - never for a check, a miss, or a reject. ## `emailVerifierApiKey` (type: `string`): Optional. Supply your own MillionVerifier key to run verification on your own credits instead of ours. Either way, you are only charged for verified-deliverable leads. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Datacenter proxy is enough for public static pages. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): How many domains are processed in parallel. ## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `integer`): Politeness pause between page requests to the same site, so the crawler stays a good neighbour and is not seen as a burst. The crawler also raises this to a site's robots.txt Crawl-delay, and stops crawling any site that refuses it. Lower only for sites you own or have permission to crawl quickly. ## Actor input object example ```json { "domains": [ "example.com" ], "maxEmailsPerDomain": 5, "discoverNamedContacts": true, "verificationLevel": "provider", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "maxConcurrency": 5, "requestDelaySecs": 1 } ```` # Actor output Schema ## `leads` (type: `string`): Business contact emails published on a company's own public page and proven deliverable. Never guessed. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "domains": [ "example.com" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("thoob/verified-lead-pipeline").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "domains": ["example.com"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("thoob/verified-lead-pipeline").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "domains": [ "example.com" ] }' | apify call thoob/verified-lead-pipeline --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=thoob/verified-lead-pipeline", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Verified B2B Email Finder", "description": "Finds published business contact emails on companies' own public pages and bills only for addresses proven deliverable. 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US scope only: non-US country domains are rejected unbilled. Paste, or pipe from Business Filings Firehose.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxEmailsPerDomain": { "title": "Max emails per domain", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Stop a domain once this many deliverable leads are found.", "default": 5 }, "discoverNamedContacts": { "title": "Discover named contacts (name + title)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Attach a person name and title to an email when the page makes it clear.", "default": true }, "verificationLevel": { "title": "Verification level", "enum": [ "mx", "smtp", "provider" ], "type": "string", "description": "provider (default) verifies each found address through a built-in deliverability API, at no extra charge. smtp checks deliverability directly but needs outbound port 25, which this platform blocks. mx alone is weak. You are only ever charged for a verified-deliverable lead - never for a check, a miss, or a reject.", "default": "provider" }, "emailVerifierApiKey": { "title": "Your own MillionVerifier API key (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Supply your own MillionVerifier key to run verification on your own credits instead of ours. Either way, you are only charged for verified-deliverable leads." }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy", "type": "object", "description": "Datacenter proxy is enough for public static pages.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max concurrent domains", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "How many domains are processed in parallel.", "default": 5 }, "requestDelaySecs": { "title": "Delay between requests (seconds)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 30, "type": "integer", "description": "Politeness pause between page requests to the same site, so the crawler stays a good neighbour and is not seen as a burst. The crawler also raises this to a site's robots.txt Crawl-delay, and stops crawling any site that refuses it. 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