# Email Verifier & Deliverability Scraper (`dev00/email-verifier-api`) Actor

Scrape real-time validations for any email address including SMTP mailbox existence, DNS record checks, disposable/role account detection, and health score.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dev00/email-verifier-api.md
- **Developed by:** [dev00](https://apify.com/dev00) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 per 1,000 verified 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?

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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.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — 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

## Email Verifier & Deliverability Scraper

A high-speed, batch-processing Apify Actor to verify email addresses in real-time. Performs comprehensive checks: syntax validation, DNS domain checks, MX server availability, SMTP mailbox existence, disposable email detector, role-based account screening, and returns a deliverability health score.

Perfect for cleaning email sign-ups, filtering invalid leads, preventing hard bounces, and securing sender reputation.

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### Features

- 📬 **Real-Time SMTP Inbox Check:** Connects directly to the mail server using SMTP verification to check if the specific mailbox exists, without sending an email.
- 🌐 **DNS & MX Verification:** Validates that the domain is registered and active on DNS, and verifies that the domain has MX records configured to receive emails.
- 🧹 **Disposable/Burner Detection:** Flags temp/disposable email addresses immediately.
- 🏢 **Role Account Filter:** Screen out generic support, sales, admin, or info addresses.
- 📐 **Syntax Check:** Checks email formats against standard RFC specifications.
- 🎯 **Deliverability Health Score:** Consolidates validations into a deliverability score from 0 to 100.
- 🗂️ **Database-Friendly Flat Mapping:** Automatically transforms nested validations into flat columns, making them immediately viewable, downloadable as CSV, or syncable with database tables.

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### Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following parameters:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| **emails** | `array` | A list of email addresses to verify (one email per item/line). |

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### Output Examples

#### 1. Verification Results Dataset (CSV/JSON Flat Structure)

```json
{
  "email": "test@gmail.com",
  "syntax": true,
  "domainExists": true,
  "mxRecords": true,
  "mailboxExists": true,
  "isDisposable": false,
  "isRoleBased": false,
  "score": 100,
  "status": "VALID"
}
```

#### 2. Raw JSON Payload Array

The complete raw JSON response array returned by the backend is stored in the default Key-Value Store under the key `OUTPUT`.

# Actor input Schema

## `emails` (type: `array`):

Provide one or more email addresses to verify (one per line/item).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "emails": [
    "test@gmail.com"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `keyValueStoreResult` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "emails": [
        "test@gmail.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dev00/email-verifier-api").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 = { "emails": ["test@gmail.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dev00/email-verifier-api").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 '{
  "emails": [
    "test@gmail.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call dev00/email-verifier-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=dev00/email-verifier-api",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zhKmYAxYQHSRU4aOl/builds/KPMFY3Kcha1cEX1ho/openapi.json