📊 Crunchbase B2B Email Scraper

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Automatically discover verified business emails from Crunchbase business listings and directory entries using intelligent Google SERP search patterns — no Crunchbase login required, no API keys needed.

📊 Tier Rating: TIER 1 — Excellent

🚀 Why Choose This Actor?

• ⚡ Fast & Efficient — Uses browser impersonation (not a full headless browser) for maximum speed with minimal resource usage
• 🎯 B2B Focused — 29 pre-built search patterns specifically engineered to find corporate emails (not Gmail/Yahoo noise)
• 🔒 Smart Proxy Fallback — Auto-escalates from direct → datacenter → residential proxy if blocked
• 📊 Live Results — Each email is saved to your dataset in real time as it's discovered
• 🌍 Location Targeting — Filter results by city, region, or country for hyper-local prospecting
• 🔑 Multi-Keyword — Process dozens of industries/niches in a single run

✨ Key Features

• 🏢 B2B Mode — Corporate email discovery (contact@, info@, team@, domain-specific)
• 👤 Personal Mode — Broader discovery including all email types
• 🎨 29 Pattern Templates — From booking emails to sponsorship inquiries
• 🔄 Smart Deduplication — Each email address appears only once in your results
• 📍 Geographic Filtering — Target specific cities or regions
• 🌐 Platform Locked to Crunchbase — Optimized search queries for Crunchbase.com
• ⚡ Jitter Delays — Human-like request timing to avoid detection
• 📈 Real-Time Progress — Live status updates and per-result logging

📥 Input Configuration

{
"keywords":["marketing","restaurants","fitness"],
"platform":"Crunchbase.com",
"location":"London",
"mode":"b2b",
"maxEmails":50,
"maxEmailsPerPattern":15,
"selectedPatterns":["email_for_bookings","bio_email_basic","contact_at_domain"],
"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":false}
}

📤 Output Format

Each discovered email is saved as a row in the Apify dataset:

{
"email":"info@example-business.com",
"leadType":"b2b",
"pattern":"email_for_bookings",
"keyword":"marketing",
"location":"London",
"network":"Crunchbase.com",
"title":"For bookings email info@example-business.com",
"description":"Professional marketing agency serving London businesses...",
"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/...",
"scraped_at":"2026-05-25T15:00:00Z"
}

🎨 Available B2B Patterns

🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. 🔐 Log in at console.apify.com → Actors
2. 🔍 Find Crunchbase B2B Email Scraper and click it
3. ⚙️ Configure your inputs:
   • Add your target keywords (e.g., marketing, restaurants)
   • Set your location (e.g., London, New York)
   • Choose mode: B2B for corporate emails
   • Set max emails (e.g., 100)
4. ▶️ Click Start
5. 📊 Watch real-time logs as emails are discovered
6. 📋 Open the Output tab to see your results table
7. 📁 Export to JSON / CSV / Excel

🔒 Proxy Behavior

The actor uses a smart 3-tier proxy escalation system:

1️⃣ Direct(no proxy) → impit browser impersonation
 ↓ If blocked
2️⃣ GOOGLE_SERP Datacenter → Apify's Google-optimized proxy
 ↓ If blocked
3️⃣ Residential Proxy → 3 retry attempts
 ↓ If all fail
❌ Skip this request,continuewith next query

Once escalated to residential, all remaining requests use residential proxy to maintain consistency.

🎯 Best Use Cases

• 🏢 Business Lead Generation — Find verified business emails from listings
• 📍 Local Business Prospecting — Target businesses by city or region
• 🤝 Partnership Discovery — Find direct contact emails of business owners
• 📧 Email List Building — Build targeted B2B email lists for outreach
• 🔍 Competitor Research — Identify and contact businesses in your industry

⚠️ Legal & Ethical Notice

• This actor only collects data from publicly available Google search results
• Only emails that appear in public Crunchbase content are collected.
• Users are responsible for compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CCPA, and applicable laws
• Do not use collected emails for spam or unsolicited bulk messaging
• Review Crunchbase's and Google's Terms of Service before use

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does this need a Crunchbase account? A: No — it searches Google for public Crunchbase content.

Q: Will it find private account emails? A: No — only publicly indexed Crunchbase content is searched.

Q: How many emails can I collect per run? A: Up to 50,000 per run. Run multiple times for larger lists.

Q: What makes B2B mode different? A: B2B mode filters out Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and other personal email domains, returning only corporate/domain-specific emails.

Q: Do I need Apify proxies? A: The default uses GOOGLE_SERP datacenter proxy. Residential proxies are only escalated to if Google blocks requests.

📞 Support & Feedback

• 🐛 Report issues in the Issues tab
• 💡 Feature requests welcome
• ⭐ If this actor saves you time, please leave a review!