# Crunchbase Email Scraper - Enterprise Solution (`contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor`) Actor

Discover company contact emails using our Crunchbase Email Scraper. Extract business emails from Crunchbase profiles for B2B prospecting and research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Lead Heaven](https://apify.com/contacts-api) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$19.99/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period.You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#rental-actors

## 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

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#### How It Works

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# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

Specify the country to target for Google search results.
## `emailType` (type: `string`):

Choose one — B2C or B2B.
## `engine` (type: `string`):

Choose scraping engine. 🚀 Cost Effective (New): Uses residential proxies with async requests for faster, cheaper scraping. 🔧 Legacy: Uses GOOGLE_SERP proxy with traditional selectors - more reliable but slower and more expensive.
## `maxEmails` (type: `integer`):

Enter the maximum number of emails to collect.
## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

List of queries to find Crunchbase profiles.
## `sourceRegion` (type: `string`):

Select the regional index to target.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "United States",
  "emailType": "B2C",
  "engine": "legacy",
  "maxEmails": 20,
  "searchTerms": [
    "fitness",
    "gym",
    "workout"
  ],
  "sourceRegion": "All"
}
````

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "fitness",
        "gym",
        "workout"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchTerms": [
        "fitness",
        "gym",
        "workout",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "fitness",
    "gym",
    "workout"
  ]
}' |
apify call contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=contacts-api/crunchbase-contact-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Crunchbase Email Scraper - Enterprise Solution",
        "description": "Discover company contact emails using our Crunchbase Email Scraper. Extract business emails from Crunchbase profiles for B2B prospecting and research.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "ZIL7ABXfjjRuf90Gs"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/contacts-api~crunchbase-contact-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-contacts-api-crunchbase-contact-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/contacts-api~crunchbase-contact-extractor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-contacts-api-crunchbase-contact-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/contacts-api~crunchbase-contact-extractor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-contacts-api-crunchbase-contact-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "searchTerms",
                    "country",
                    "sourceRegion",
                    "emailType",
                    "maxEmails"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country",
                        "enum": [
                            "United States",
                            "United Kingdom",
                            "Canada",
                            "Australia",
                            "Germany",
                            "France",
                            "India",
                            "Japan",
                            "Brazil",
                            "Italy",
                            "Spain",
                            "Netherlands",
                            "Sweden",
                            "Norway",
                            "Denmark",
                            "Finland",
                            "Poland",
                            "Czech Republic",
                            "Hungary",
                            "Romania",
                            "Bulgaria",
                            "Croatia",
                            "Slovenia",
                            "Slovakia",
                            "Estonia",
                            "Latvia",
                            "Lithuania",
                            "Portugal",
                            "Greece",
                            "Cyprus",
                            "Malta",
                            "Luxembourg",
                            "Ireland",
                            "Belgium",
                            "Austria",
                            "Switzerland",
                            "Liechtenstein",
                            "Iceland",
                            "South Korea",
                            "China",
                            "Mexico",
                            "Argentina",
                            "Chile",
                            "Colombia",
                            "Peru",
                            "Venezuela",
                            "Ecuador",
                            "Uruguay",
                            "Paraguay",
                            "Bolivia",
                            "Guyana",
                            "Suriname",
                            "French Guiana",
                            "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
                            "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
                            "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba",
                            "Curaçao",
                            "Aruba",
                            "Sint Maarten (Dutch part)",
                            "Turks and Caicos Islands",
                            "British Virgin Islands",
                            "Anguilla",
                            "Montserrat",
                            "Antigua and Barbuda",
                            "Barbados",
                            "Dominica",
                            "Grenada",
                            "Saint Kitts and Nevis",
                            "Saint Lucia",
                            "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
                            "Trinidad and Tobago",
                            "Jamaica",
                            "Bahamas",
                            "Belize",
                            "Costa Rica",
                            "Guatemala",
                            "Honduras",
                            "Nicaragua",
                            "Panama",
                            "El Salvador",
                            "Cuba",
                            "Dominican Republic",
                            "Haiti",
                            "Puerto Rico",
                            "U.S. Virgin Islands",
                            "American Samoa",
                            "Guam",
                            "Northern Mariana Islands",
                            "Saudi Arabia",
                            "United Arab Emirates",
                            "Bahrain",
                            "Iraq",
                            "Iran, Islamic Republic of",
                            "Israel",
                            "Jordan",
                            "Kuwait",
                            "Lebanon",
                            "Oman",
                            "Qatar",
                            "Syrian Arab Republic",
                            "Yemen",
                            "Afghanistan",
                            "Bangladesh",
                            "Bhutan",
                            "Maldives",
                            "Nepal",
                            "Pakistan",
                            "Sri Lanka",
                            "Myanmar",
                            "Cambodia",
                            "Lao People's Democratic Republic",
                            "Thailand",
                            "Viet Nam",
                            "Malaysia",
                            "Singapore",
                            "Brunei Darussalam",
                            "Philippines",
                            "Indonesia",
                            "Timor-Leste",
                            "Papua New Guinea",
                            "Fiji",
                            "New Zealand",
                            "Solomon Islands",
                            "Vanuatu",
                            "New Caledonia",
                            "French Polynesia",
                            "Wallis and Futuna",
                            "Samoa",
                            "Tonga",
                            "Tuvalu",
                            "Kiribati",
                            "Nauru",
                            "Federated States of Micronesia",
                            "Marshall Islands",
                            "Palau",
                            "Cook Islands",
                            "Niue",
                            "Tokelau"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Specify the country to target for Google search results.",
                        "default": "United States"
                    },
                    "emailType": {
                        "title": "Email Type",
                        "enum": [
                            "B2C",
                            "B2B"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Choose one — B2C or B2B.",
                        "default": "B2C"
                    },
                    "engine": {
                        "title": "Engine",
                        "enum": [
                            "cost-effective",
                            "legacy"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Choose scraping engine. 🚀 Cost Effective (New): Uses residential proxies with async requests for faster, cheaper scraping. 🔧 Legacy: Uses GOOGLE_SERP proxy with traditional selectors - more reliable but slower and more expensive.",
                        "default": "legacy"
                    },
                    "maxEmails": {
                        "title": "Max Emails",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Enter the maximum number of emails to collect.",
                        "default": 20
                    },
                    "searchTerms": {
                        "title": "Search Terms",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of queries to find Crunchbase profiles.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "sourceRegion": {
                        "title": "Source Region",
                        "enum": [
                            "All",
                            "Company",
                            "Person",
                            "Event"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Select the regional index to target.",
                        "default": "All"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
