Tomba Author Finder

Turn any article into a verified contact. Paste blog post or article URLs and get the author's name, verified email address, position, company and social profiles, ready to export.

No Tomba account. No API key. No subscription. You pay $0.00312 per URL, and only when we find something.

Why teams choose this Actor

• Start in 30 seconds: Open the Actor, paste your article URLs, click Start. Nothing to sign up for
• Verified emails: Each author email comes with its verification status and a confidence score
• Pay only for results: URLs with no author, errors and invalid inputs are free
• $3.12 per 1,000 URLs: No monthly plan, no credits that expire, no minimum spend
• Built for big lists: No rate limit. Thousands of URLs run in parallel
• Never pay twice: URLs you looked up in the last 24 hours come back from cache for free
• Export anywhere: Download as CSV, Excel or JSON, or send results straight to your CRM with Apify integrations

Promises we actually keep

• Less than 5% bounce rate — Every email is verified in real time before you're charged.
• Highest coverage on the market — 81% email coverage. That's 2x more valid emails than the next best competitor. We find contacts others simply can't.

What you can do with it

Goal	How author data helps
Pitch journalists	Reach the writers who already cover your topic, with a verified email
Land guest posts	Contact the authors of the blogs you want to appear on
Run influencer outreach	Build lists of content creators and thought leaders in your niche
Earn backlinks	Find the person behind every article that mentions your competitors
Research and interviews	Reach experts and researchers for quotes, interviews or collaboration

Quick start

1. Click Try for free
2. Paste your article or blog post URLs into URLs to Process
3. Click Start, then download your results as CSV, Excel or JSON

That's it. No Tomba account or API key is needed.

Input

Field	Required	Default	Description
urls	Yes		Article, blog post or author page URLs to analyze
maxResults	No	50	Maximum number of URLs to process (one result per URL)
webhookUrl	No		Your own http(s):// URL that Tomba also sends each result to
maxConcurrency	No	10	How many URLs to process at the same time (1–50)
maxRetries	No	3	How many times to retry a temporary failure (0–10)
useCache	No	true	Reuse results from your previous runs for free
cacheTtlHours	No	24	How long cached results stay valid (0 turns the cache off)

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.shopify.com/blog/self-publish-a-book",
        "https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/content-marketing"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Duplicate URLs and blank lines are removed automatically.

Output

You get one row per URL:

{
    "email": "jane.doe@shopify.com",
    "first_name": "Jane",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "full_name": "Jane Doe",
    "website_url": "shopify.com",
    "company": "Shopify",
    "position": "Content Writer",
    "country": "CA",
    "gender": "female",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/janedoe",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
    "score": 96,
    "accept_all": false,
    "phone_number": false,
    "verification": {
        "date": "2025-10-17T00:00:00+02:00",
        "status": "valid"
    },
    "sources": [
        {
            "uri": "https://www.shopify.com/blog/self-publish-a-book",
            "website_url": "shopify.com",
            "extracted_on": "2024-09-17T11:26:56+02:00",
            "last_seen_on": "2025-09-06T04:51:06+02:00",
            "still_on_page": true
        }
    ],
    "input_url": "https://www.shopify.com/blog/self-publish-a-book",
    "source": "tomba_author_finder",
    "chargedCredits": 1,
    "charged": true,
    "cached": false
}

Field	Description
input_url	The URL you submitted
email	Author's email address (null if none was found)
first_name, last_name, full_name	Author's name
position, company	Author's job title and company
website_url	Website associated with the author
country, gender	Author's country and gender, when known
twitter, linkedin	Author's social profiles, when known
score	Confidence score from 0 to 100
verification	Email verification date and status (e.g. valid)
accept_all	true if the email domain accepts all addresses (catch-all)
phone_number	Whether a phone number is available for the author
sources	Public pages where the email was found, with dates
source	Always tomba_author_finder
chargedCredits	Credits billed for this URL ($0.00312 each)
charged	true if this lookup was billed
cached	true if this result came from the cache (free)
error	Why no author was returned, if applicable

Fields Tomba has no data for are left empty. The dataset has three ready-made views: Overview, Detailed View and Source Analysis.

Pricing

$0.00312 per URL ($3.12 per 1,000). No subscription and no Tomba account needed.

Tomba charges 1 credit per URL with an answer, and one credit costs $0.00312:

Lookup	Credits	Cost
Author found for the URL	1	$0.00312
Same lookup with a webhookUrl	1	$0.00312
1,000 URLs with an author	1,000	$3.12

You are only charged when Tomba returns a usable answer:

What happens	Charged
Author found for the URL	Yes
Author identified, but no email address found	Yes
No author found for the URL	No
Invalid URL or any other error	No
Temporary failure (it is retried automatically)	No
Result served from the cache	No

Every row shows chargedCredits, charged and cached, so you always know what you paid for. To cap your spend, set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the Actor stops cleanly when the limit is reached.

Built for big lists

• No rate limit: up to 50 URLs are processed at the same time
• Automatic retries: temporary failures are retried for you, and never billed
• Resumable: if a run is interrupted, it continues where it stopped without charging you again
• Cache: repeat lookups within 24 hours are free

Real-time API

Need results instantly inside your own app? This Actor also runs as a real-time API (Apify Standby mode): no run to start, no dataset to fetch, just an HTTP request that returns JSON in seconds. Pricing is the same.

Look up one or more articles with a GET request (URL-encode each url, and repeat the parameter for several URLs):

curl "https://<your-standby-url>/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shopify.com%2Fblog%2Fself-publish-a-book" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"

You can also POST the same JSON input as a normal run (best for long lists or URLs that contain commas):

curl -X POST "https://<your-standby-url>/" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://www.shopify.com/blog/self-publish-a-book", "https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design"], "maxResults": 20}'

The response is { "items": [...] }, with the same rows as the dataset. Find your Standby URL and the full OpenAPI description in the API tab of this Actor.

Integrations

Run it on a schedule, call it from the Apify API, or connect it to Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack and hundreds of other apps with Apify integrations. Webhooks let you trigger your own workflow as soon as a run finishes.

FAQ

Do I need a Tomba account or API key? No. Everything is built in. You only pay the per-URL price on Apify.

How much does it cost? $0.00312 per URL with results ($3.12 per 1,000). URLs with no author, errors and cached lookups are free.

Can I send the results to my own system? Yes. Besides Apify integrations, you can set Webhook URL and Tomba also sends each result to your endpoint. It costs nothing extra.

Does it find phone numbers? Each result tells you in phone_number whether Tomba has a phone number for the author. To get the number itself, run the author's email or LinkedIn profile through Tomba Phone Finder.

Which pages work best? Blog posts, news articles and author bio pages with a clear byline. Pages without an author usually return nothing, and those are free.

How many URLs can I process in one run? Up to 1,000 per run, processed in parallel. There is no rate limit.

Are the emails verified? Yes. Each email comes with its verification status and a confidence score, so you can filter before you send.

What if my run is interrupted? It picks up where it stopped. URLs already processed are not charged again.

How do I limit what I spend? Set Maximum cost per run before you start. The Actor stops as soon as the limit is reached.

Support

Questions or feedback? We're happy to help:

• Email: support@tomba.io
• Live chat: on tomba.io during business hours
• Issues: use the Issues tab on this Actor's page

About Tomba

Founded in 2020, Tomba is a B2B data platform for finding, verifying and enriching business contacts. Our Email Finder, Domain Search and Email Verifier help sales and marketing teams reach the right people.