# Website Contact Scout (`subtler_awareness/website-contact-scout`) Actor

Extract public emails, phone numbers, and social profile links from company websites for lead enrichment.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/subtler\_awareness/website-contact-scout.md
- **Developed by:** [Boris-Andrei Pavel](https://apify.com/subtler_awareness) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 lead records

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 web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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?

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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`.
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- **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

## Website Contact Scout

Turn company websites into clean lead-enrichment rows. Website Contact Scout crawls user-provided domains and extracts public contact signals: emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, source page, normalized domain, counts, and a confidence score.

### What it is good for

- Enriching a CSV of company domains before outbound sales.
- Finding contact pages for agencies, recruiters, and B2B research teams.
- Building lightweight lead lists from public company websites.
- Checking whether a website exposes sales/support contact channels.

### Input

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `startUrls` | Company, directory, or contact-page URLs to scan. |
| `maxRequestsPerCrawl` | Maximum number of pages to crawl across all start URLs. |
| `sameDomainOnly` | Keep crawling constrained to the submitted domains. Recommended: `true`. |

Example input:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.iana.org/contact" },
    { "url": "https://www.python.org/about/help/" }
  ],
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 25,
  "sameDomainOnly": true
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item is a lead/contact record:

```json
{
  "domain": "iana.org",
  "companyName": "Contact Us",
  "contactPage": "https://www.iana.org/contact",
  "emails": ["iana@iana.org"],
  "phones": ["+1-424-254-5300", "+1-424-254-5033"],
  "socials": [],
  "emailCount": 1,
  "phoneCount": 2,
  "socialCount": 0,
  "confidence": 0.8
}
```

Common fields:

- `url`, `domain`, `companyName`, `title`, `contactPage`
- `emails`, `phones`, `socials`
- platform-specific fields such as `linkedin`, `twitter`, `facebook`, `instagram`, `youtube`
- `emailCount`, `phoneCount`, `socialCount`
- `confidence`

### Quality filters

The Actor includes lightweight cleanup to reduce noisy lead data:

- rejects common date-like phone false positives
- rejects protocol/range-style numbers
- canonicalizes social links
- deduplicates repeated contact-page fragments such as `/contact#main`
- suppresses low-confidence social-only boilerplate pages

### Tips for best results

- Submit company homepages or contact/about pages.
- Keep `sameDomainOnly` enabled unless you intentionally want broader crawling.
- Use a moderate `maxRequestsPerCrawl` first, then scale once output quality is confirmed.
- Export the dataset as CSV for sales, recruiting, SEO, or research workflows.

### Responsible use

This Actor extracts public information from websites you provide. Respect website terms, privacy laws, and anti-spam rules. Do not use extracted contacts for unlawful or abusive outreach.

### Local development

```bash
npm install
npm test
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage npm start
```

### Deployment

```bash
npx -y apify-cli login
npx -y apify-cli push
```

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Company or directory URLs to scan.

## `maxRequestsPerCrawl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages to crawl across all start URLs.

## `sameDomainOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only enqueue links on the same domain as the provided start URLs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 100,
  "sameDomainOnly": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leadRecords` (type: `string`):

All extracted lead-enrichment rows from the default dataset.

## `contactsOnly` (type: `string`):

Dataset view focused on domain, company, emails, phones, source page, and confidence.

## `socialProfiles` (type: `string`):

Dataset view focused on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube links.

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://example.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("subtler_awareness/website-contact-scout").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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("subtler_awareness/website-contact-scout").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call subtler_awareness/website-contact-scout --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/5xqjfk90c9p3yzy1M/builds/KcuORKLP7QpaMPWnA/openapi.json