Automae Email Extractor

An Apify actor that crawls websites to extract email addresses. It intelligently navigates to contact pages, uses multiple extraction methods, and includes anti-detection measures to avoid being blocked.

Key Features

• Multi-Source Email Extraction: Finds emails from mailto: links, decodes Cloudflare-protected data-cfemail addresses, scans HTML content with regex, and checks <meta> tags.
• Smart Navigation: Automatically identifies and prioritizes contact pages using a configurable list of multilingual keywords (e.g., contact, kontakt, contactez).
• Anti-Detection: Uses realistic browser fingerprints, random delays between actions, human-like headers, and session management to mimic organic traffic and reduce the risk of bans.
• Email Filtering & Validation: Prioritizes common business emails (e.g., contact@, info@), filters out unwanted addresses (e.g., no-reply@), validates email format, and removes duplicates.

How to Use

Input Configuration

Configure the actor using a JSON input. Only the baseUrl is required.

{
  "baseUrl": "https://example.com",
  "maxContactPages": 2,
  "navigationTimeoutMs": 30000,
  "blacklist": ["spam@", "test@", "@example.org"]
}

• baseUrl (required): The starting URL to crawl.
• maxContactPages (optional, default: 2): Maximum number of contact pages to analyze.
• navigationTimeoutMs (optional, default: 30000): Page load timeout in milliseconds.
• blacklist (optional): An array of email patterns to exclude. These are added to the default blacklist (no-reply@, noreply@, donotreply@, @mail.com).

Execution

Run the actor on the Apify platform or locally:

# Local execution
npm start
# or
node main.js

Input & Output

Input: The JSON configuration object detailed above.

Output: The actor returns a structured JSON result.

{
  "hit": true,
  "primaryEmail": "contact@example.com",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "emails": ["contact@example.com", "info@example.com"],
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/contact",
  "scanned": ["https://example.com", "https://example.com/contact"],
  "baseUrl": "https://example.com"
}

• hit: Indicates if any emails were found.
• primaryEmail: The highest-priority email address discovered.
• emails: An array of all valid, filtered emails found.
• sourceUrl: The page where the primaryEmail was extracted.
• scanned: The list of URLs that were crawled.