# Professional Email Finder (`theunknown/professional-email-finder`)

Find professional of a person using their name only!!

- **URL**: https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/theunknown/professional-email-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [The Unknown](https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/theunknown) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 10 total users, 10 monthly users, 98.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per result. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for dataset items the Actor outputs.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-result

# README

## 📧 Professional Email Finder API

Find professional email addresses on the web using just a **full name** and a **company domain**.\
Fast, simple, and reliable for lead generation, recruiting, or research.

***

### 🚀 Features

- Search by **name + domain**
- Returns **verified email addresses**
- Includes **source URLs** where emails were found
- Easy to integrate with any app or service

***

### 🔑 Endpoint

##### Request Parameters

| Parameter      | Type   | Required | Description                                                     |
| -------------- | ------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `name`         | string | ✅ Yes   | Full name of the person for better accuracy (e.g. `"John Doe"`) |
| `email_domain` | string | ✅ Yes   | Company domain (e.g. `"microsoft.com"`)                         |

##### Example Request

```json
{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email_domain": "microsoft.com"
}
```

##### Example Response

```json
{
  "status": "OK",
  "emails": [
    {
      "email": "john.doe@microsoft.com",
      "sources": [
        "https://exploremspreprod.microsoft.com",
        "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5389560/requesting-assistance-with-vlookup-function-in-exc",
        "https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/issues/1316",
        "https://github.com/bhouston/fastify-file-router",
        "https://gist.github.com/cherrykoda/c75a5ad4ba02b13c99c924f6cc91f71f"
      ]
    },
    {
      "email": "johndoe@microsoft.com",
      "sources": [
        "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/note-to-self-how-does-it-work-84d7df5e-646d-46a9-a58e-0c806f4b68b1",
        "https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/note-to-self-how-does-it-work-84d7df5e-646d-46a9-a58e-0c806f4b68b1"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

### 📘 Use Cases

- 📩 Sales & Lead Generation – build prospect lists
- 👔 Recruitment – reach out to candidates
- 🔬 Research – find professionals in any company

# Actor input Schema

## `name` (type: `array`):

Full name of the person (e.g. 'John Doe')

## `email_domain` (type: `string`):

Company domain (e.g. 'microsoft.com', 'gmail.com')

## `similarity` (type: `string`):

Threshold for similarity matching (0 to 1). Higher values mean stricter matching.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "name": [
    "Elon Musk",
    "Sundar Pichai",
    "Satya Nadella",
    "Tim Cook",
    "Jeff Bezos"
  ],
  "email_domain": "microsoft.com",
  "similarity": "0"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "name": [
        "Elon Musk",
        "Sundar Pichai",
        "Satya Nadella",
        "Tim Cook",
        "Jeff Bezos"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("theunknown/professional-email-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "name": [
        "Elon Musk",
        "Sundar Pichai",
        "Satya Nadella",
        "Tim Cook",
        "Jeff Bezos",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("theunknown/professional-email-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "name": [
    "Elon Musk",
    "Sundar Pichai",
    "Satya Nadella",
    "Tim Cook",
    "Jeff Bezos"
  ]
}' |
apify call theunknown/professional-email-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=theunknown/professional-email-finder",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Professional Email Finder",
        "description": "Find professional of a person using their name only!!",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "8JBR9Tkuc1fioKbzJ"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/theunknown~professional-email-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-theunknown-professional-email-finder",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/theunknown~professional-email-finder/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-theunknown-professional-email-finder",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/theunknown~professional-email-finder/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-theunknown-professional-email-finder",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "name",
                    "email_domain"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "title": "Full Name",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Full name of the person (e.g. 'John Doe')",
                        "default": [
                            "John Doe"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "email_domain": {
                        "title": "Company Domain",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Company domain (e.g. 'microsoft.com', 'gmail.com')",
                        "default": "microsoft.com"
                    },
                    "similarity": {
                        "title": "Similarity Threshold",
                        "enum": [
                            "0",
                            "1"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Threshold for similarity matching (0 to 1). Higher values mean stricter matching.",
                        "default": "0"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
