Leads Finder: Public Business Contacts

Find public business contacts by city and business type, or supply a list of company website URLs. Export published business emails, phones, social links, and source pages to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

This Actor finds companies, not people. It does not use Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, private contact databases, login credentials, or guessed email addresses.

Quick start

{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
}

Discovery processes the supplied cities. Start with one city and split larger searches into separate runs. Supplying startUrls uses those websites instead of city discovery.

Example output

Illustrative business record; the example company and contact details are not a verified lead.

{
  "companyName": "Example Dental",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "website": "https://example.com/",
  "country": "United States",
  "sector": "dentist",
  "address": "123 Main St, Chicago, IL",
  "discoveryUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/123",
  "companyEmails": [{"email": "hello@example.com", "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/contact"}],
  "primaryEmail": "hello@example.com",
  "emailMxStatus": "mx_present",
  "phones": ["+1 555 0100"],
  "socials": {"linkedin": null, "facebook": null, "instagram": null, "twitter": null},
  "pagesScraped": ["https://example.com/", "https://example.com/contact"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-30T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Input settings

What you get

• City-bounded public business discovery
• Public website, phone, address, and source record URL
• Emails visibly published on the business website, with the page URL
• Optional domain MX status (not a mailbox deliverability claim)
• Linked business social links and fetched-page provenance

Tips and limits

Start with one city and a small maximum. Not every public business has a website or publishes an email; disable requireEmail when you need a company-research list rather than an email-ready list. Public source availability can change or rate-limit requests, so valid partial results are retained with their provenance.

Who is it for?

• Local sales and outreach teams building a source-backed company list before personal contact.
• Agencies and researchers who need repeatable city-and-sector discovery with exportable provenance.
• Operations teams that already have a list of public company sites and want to collect only visible business contacts.

API usage

Use your Apify API token through the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Node.js and Python examples wait for the run and read its first dataset page; paginate the dataset for larger exports.

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('fetch_cat/leads-finder').call({
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

import json
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run_input = json.loads('''{
  "sector": "dentist",
  "country": "United States",
  "cities": [
    "Chicago"
  ],
  "maxLeads": 5,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "verifyMx": true
}''')
run = client.actor("fetch_cat/leads-finder").call(run_input=run_input)
print(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items)

cURL

Save the quickstart JSON as input.json. This request starts a run asynchronously; use its returned run ID to check completion and its defaultDatasetId to retrieve results.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~leads-finder/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @input.json

MCP and AI agents

Use the official Apify MCP server, not a separate custom server. The focused URL below selects this Actor. Authenticate with Apify when your client prompts you; configuration syntax and OAuth support depend on the client.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/leads-finder"

HTTP-capable MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/leads-finder"
    }
  }
}

Example prompt: "Find up to five dentist businesses in Chicago that publish an email. Return the company, public email, phone, and supporting source page. Do not infer personal contacts."

Use the same input keys as the input table. Review the returned source URLs and any error or availability fields before using results in an automated summary.

Support

If a run fails or output looks wrong, open an issue from the Actor page. Include the Apify run ID or run URL, non-sensitive input JSON, expected output, actual output, and one reproducible public URL (or the exact search input). Do not share tokens, cookies, passwords, or private data.