Website Contact & Social Discovery Crawler

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What does Website Contact & Social Discovery Crawler do?

This Actor crawls websites and discovers contact details and social media profiles. For each seed URL you provide, it searches high-value pages (contact, about, team, support, and pages found in sitemaps), extracts emails, phone numbers, and social links, and writes every finding as a separate dataset record.

Use it for lead generation, company research, enrichment pipelines, or building contact databases from public web pages.

Features

• Discover emails, phone numbers, and social profiles (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Threads, GitHub, and more)
• Crawl multiple websites in one run
• Sitemap discovery — finds contact-related pages faster via robots.txt and sitemap.xml
• Multi-site friendly — balances load across domains with round-robin scheduling and per-host rate limits
• Direct-first proxy — direct requests first; proxy after HTTP 403/429 when configured, otherwise the site is skipped
• Event-based output — one row per discovered email, phone, or social URL

Input

Configure the Actor in the Input tab. Main fields:

Website examples

[
"https://www.apify.com",
"https://example.com"
]

With per-site phone region (recommended for non-US sites):

[
{"url":"https://www.kalyansilks.com/","countryCode":"IN"},
{"url":"https://example.co.uk/","countryCode":"GB"}
]

URLs with optional object form (uses defaultCountryCode when countryCode is omitted):

[
{"url":"https://www.apify.com"}
]

Output

Each discovered entity is saved as one dataset record. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS from the run's Storage tab.

Output fields

Output example

{
"startingUrl":"https://www.example.com/",
"currentPage":"https://www.example.com/contact-us",
"pageFetched":"https://www.example.com/contact-us",
"type":"email",
"value":"hello@example.com"
}

{
"startingUrl":"https://www.example.com/",
"currentPage":"https://www.example.com/about",
"pageFetched":"https://www.example.com/about",
"type":"linkedin",
"value":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/example"
}

Tips

• Start with a low maxPagesPerSite when testing new domains.
• Set countryCode (or defaultCountryCode) to match each site's market so local phone numbers parse correctly.
• Use terminationStrategy: "lazy" to collect more contacts within your page and depth limits.
• Use terminationStrategy: "early" (default) for faster runs when one email, phone, and social per site is enough.
• Set proxyConfiguration if sites return HTTP 403 or 429 without proxy.
• Lower maxRequestsPerDomainPerSecond or maxConcurrencyPerDomain if you encounter rate limiting (HTTP 429).
• Set useSitemapDiscovery to false if you only want to crawl pages discovered via links from the homepage.

Limitations

• Extracts only publicly visible contact information on crawled pages.
• Phone numbers without a country code need the correct countryCode or defaultCountryCode for your target market.
• Some sites block automated access; proxy may be required.
• Respects maxPagesPerSite, maxDepthPerSite, and termination strategy; lazy mode still does not guarantee every contact on large sites.