At PhantomBuster we know that email addresses are key for your company's marketing and growth. The problem is finding them in the first place. Here's an overview of our Phantoms that can assist you in finding the email addresses you need:
- Emails for businesses
- Emails from web pages
- Emails from social media profiles
- Professional emails
- Emails from a list of names
1. Emails for businesses
A couple of our Phantoms target specific directories where you can find a wealth of contact information, including email addresses, for small and large businesses alike:
- Google Maps Search to Contact Data.
- Yellow Pages Search Export -> Yellow Pages Business Scraper. Chain these two Phantoms together with this demo.
2. Emails from web pages
You can scrape any email addresses displayed on generic public web pages (often in the "Contact info" section of a website) using one of the following Phantoms:
- Data Scraping Crawler for collecting any other contact and social media information available as well.
- Email Extractor.
3. Emails from social media profiles
When people have chosen to publicly share their personal email addresses on social network profiles, such as on their Instagram business account or LinkedIn contact info, you can use one of the following Phantoms to scrape them:
- Any of our Profile Scraper Phantoms.
- LinkedIn Personal Email Extractor for all of your 1st-degree connections only (using your official LinkedIn contacts archive spreadsheet).
Please note that some social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, do not display email addresses, so Phantoms will not be able to access them.
These social networks don't make their non-business account users' email addresses publicly available on their desktop version, which is what PhantomBuster uses to automate your account. So the Phantom will ordinarily not have access to them. An exception to this is if they are written in the account bio, which will be extracted with Facebook Profile Scraper, Instagram Profile Scraper and Twitter Profile Scraper.
4. Professional emails
If the email addresses you're looking for can't be found anywhere, don't panic! Our email discovery takes a full name plus a company name and uses them to create a professional email address, test it, and, if verified, returns it to you.
This feature is mostly used with LinkedIn Phantoms, where both full names and company names are available and most accurate. So, you can use:
- LinkedIn Profile Scraper / LinkedIn Sales Navigator Profile Scraper.
- Any of our LinkedIn Phantoms which also scrape profiles (e.g. LinkedIn Auto Connect + Message Sender).
Finding professional emails just got even easier with our new Flows:
- LinkedIn Post Commenters to Emails.
- LinkedIn Group Members to Emails.
- LinkedIn Connections to email.
- Sales Navigator Search to Emails.
- LinkedIn Search to Emails.
5. Emails from a list of names
While this task can be more challenging and isn't always guaranteed, you still have these viable options at your disposal:
- If you have a simple list of full names with company names, you can use Professional Email Finder, no social media is required.
- If you just have a list of names, you can try to find the corresponding LinkedIn profiles using LinkedIn Profile URL Finder, then use LinkedIn Profile Scraper to obtain the email addresses.
To note about email discovery credits
Each of PhantomBuster's paid subscription plans includes a certain amount of daily email discovery credits, or you can use those you have with our partners Dropcontact and Hunter.io. Each credit corresponds to one attempt made at finding a verified professional email address. Be aware that sometimes it is not possible, and so the return rate may not always be equal to your credit count. For more details, check out this article.
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