API reference / Email verification

Find the contacts a website lists

Written and maintained by The ProspectAPIs team

POST/v1/website/contacts

POST /v1/website/contacts is the ProspectAPIs operation websiteContacts, in the Email verification group of the REST API. $0.009 per contact returned with a usable address. Reads the company's own site live (robots.txt honoured, at most 8 pages: the given URL, the homepage, its team, about, contact and press pages) and returns the people and addresses it publishes, ranked for the objective, each paired with an email: a published address checked at the mailbox, or a found one from the common patterns. Names without an address, catch-all guesses, a published address the mailbox check calls invalid, and an empty, unreadable or disallowed site are free. Cost: Launching soon. Send your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

How this fits with the rest of the email verification API, with worked examples, is in the email verification guide.

Parameters

Request body

JSON (WebsiteContactsRequest).

{
  "domain": "acme.com"
}

Responses

Every error answers with the same JSON body, an error string and sometimes a code; the errors page lists each status and when it happens. A per-key 429 carries Retry-After; see rate limits.

200 response fields

The contacts, or a status saying why there are none. The body is a WebsiteContactsResult.

Code samples

Each sample sends the same request. Set PROSPECTAPIS_KEY in your environment first. Values come from the spec's examples; replace them with your own.

curl -X POST https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/website/contacts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PROSPECTAPIS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "domain": "acme.com" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/website/contacts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PROSPECTAPIS_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "domain": "acme.com"
  }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json().catch(() => ({}))).error ?? res.statusText}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/website/contacts",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PROSPECTAPIS_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "domain": "acme.com",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()
print(data)

Billing

Billing reserves before it serves: the call holds what it may cost, serves at most what that hold covers, and refunds the rest when the response closes. Any non-2xx answer refunds the whole hold, so a failed call costs nothing. The response reports your balance in X-Credits-Remaining.

Related

The email verification guide covers this area end to end. Previous operation: Revoke a hosted connect link. Next operation: Search events in a city. Every operation, grouped by area, is on the API reference index.

Create a free account to get a key, then run the samples above with your own values (this call acts for real, so use real inputs).