Advanced Email, Phone and Social Media Scraper ### Overview The Advanced Email, Phone and Social Media Scraper is an advanced tool for gathering contact and social media information from websites. With a unique, human-emulating approach, it effectively bypasses common security blocks, including CAPTCHA and Cloudflare, enabling reliable, efficient data extraction. Simply provide a single URL or list of URLs, and this scraper will dive deep into each site, navigating to areas most likely to contain contact details while skipping irrelevant pages to conserve resources. --- ### Key Features - Full Contact Data Extraction: Collects emails, phone numbers, and social media links from any website, making your data collection process efficient and thorough. - Human-Emulation Browsing: Bypasses security measures by navigating each site with a Chrome browser, providing more consistent access even in security-sensitive environments. - Smart Resource Management: Efficiently retrieves emails, phone numbers, and social media links by focusing only on high-potential pages within a website, ignoring subpages with a low likelihood of containing contact information. This approach saves time and resources while still ensuring comprehensive data collection. - Bulk URL Processing: Supports single or multiple URLs in one run, making it ideal for both small-scale and large-scale projects. --- ### How It Works 1. Input URLs: Add the target URLs (formatted as https://domain.com) or upload a list for bulk processing. 2. Selective Page Crawling: The worker scans each website’s main pages and subpages likely to contain contact details, skipping lower-relevance areas to optimize for efficiency. 3. Contact Extraction: - Comprehensive Crawling: The worker scans accessible areas, checking potential sources of contact details. - Data Retrieval: Captures available emails, phone numbers, and the first valid social media links it identifies (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram). 4. Data Storage: Saves all data in Apify’s dataset format, allowing easy export for analysis or integration with other workflows. --- ### Usage #### Single URL Mode Enter a single URL (e.g., https://example.com) to get contact details for that site. #### Bulk URL Mode Use the “Bulk Edit” feature to submit multiple URLs for processing. The scraper will automatically store each site’s results in an organized dataset. --- ### Output For each website, the worker generates: - Emails: Unique, validated email addresses. - Phone Numbers: Available phone numbers on the site. - Social Media Links: First valid links to each identified social media profile (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). --- ### Example Usage 1. Open the Apify console, select the Advanced Email, Phone and Social Media Scraper. 2. Input one or multiple URLs. 3. Start the worker. It will navigate and selectively scrape, focusing on the pages where contact details are most likely to be located, saving results in Apify’s dataset. --- ### Benefits - Efficient Data Collection: Collects comprehensive contact information without unnecessary data, minimizing duplicates and irrelevant results. - Bypasses Security Barriers: Using Apify's advanced tech, navigates with human-like behavior, bypassing CAPTCHA and Cloudflare with ease. - Smart, Resource-Efficient Crawling: Focuses only on pages with high data potential, saving user resources while ensuring effective results. --- ### FAQs - Will it work on sites with security measures? - Yes, the worker’s human-like navigation enables it to bypass common blocks, such as CAPTCHA and Cloudflare. - Does it filter duplicate data? - Yes, it captures unique entries only, optimizing output quality. - How does it save on resources? - By focusing only on high-potential pages, it avoids crawling unnecessary sections, making it a resource-efficient choice. - Can I export the results? - Yes, Apify’s dataset system allows easy export options for further processing. - Is my data secure? - Apify securely manages all scraped data, ensuring it’s accessible only to you and stored in a secure environment. ---