B2B Lead Scraper: Public Business Emails

Build a source-backed B2B prospect list from public business websites. Discover businesses in an OpenStreetMap-bounded city or enrich a list of public website URLs, then export only contact channels visibly published by those businesses.

This is for public, no-login business research. It does not access Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, private contact databases, or guessed personal email addresses.

Who is it for?

Sales operations, agencies, recruiters, researchers, and local-business teams that need a reviewable list of public business contact channels before a compliant outreach or market-research workflow. Use it as a business email scraper when public-source provenance matters, or as a lead generation scraper for bounded local-business research.

What you get

Default discovery exports only businesses with a visibly published public email, including its source page. Each row also has the business name, website/domain when public data provides it, phone links, explicit linked social profiles, and the exact pages inspected. Optional MX checks report whether the domain publishes MX records; they do not verify inbox ownership or deliverability.

Input recipes

Find Chicago dentists

{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": ["Chicago"],
  "maxLeads": 10,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
}

Enrich public business websites

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.freshworksdental.com/" }],
  "maxLeads": 1,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": false,
  "verifyMx": true
}

Input settings

Use cases

• Build a public supplier or local-business outreach list.
• Find published business contact channels for market research.
• Enrich a buyer-owned list of public websites with source-page provenance.
• Export public business data for CRM review, Google Sheets, or compliant outreach.

Tips and limits

• Use direct startUrls when you already know the businesses to research.
• The default email-only mode can return fewer rows because many public sites do not publish an email address. Increase the city scope or use a buyer-owned public website list when you need more qualifying businesses.
• The Actor inspects only a bounded number of same-site contact, about, and team pages.
• Availability depends on public source data. Empty optional fields are never inferred.
• Respect website terms, applicable law, and your outreach obligations.

API usage

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('fetch_cat/lead-scraper-apollo-zoominfo-lusha-ppe-scraper').call({
  sector: 'dentist', country: 'United States', cities: ['Chicago'], maxLeads: 10,
});
console.log((await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems()).items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("fetch_cat/lead-scraper-apollo-zoominfo-lusha-ppe-scraper").call(run_input={"sector": "dentist", "cities": ["Chicago"], "maxLeads": 10})
print(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items)

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~lead-scraper-apollo-zoominfo-lusha-ppe-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"sector":"dentist","cities":["Chicago"],"maxLeads":10}'

MCP and automation

Add this Actor as an MCP tool:

claude mcp add apify -- npx -y @apify/mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/mcp-server"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "${APIFY_TOKEN}" }
    }
  }
}

Use https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/lead-scraper-apollo-zoominfo-lusha-ppe-scraper.

Example prompts:

• “Find 10 Chicago dentists with a publicly listed email and include source pages.”
• “Enrich these public business websites and return phones, explicit social links, and MX status.”

Support

For a reproducible issue, include your non-sensitive input, run URL, and affected public URL in the Actor’s Issues tab.