---
title: "How to use Website Contacts Scraper"
url: "https://lookvalid.com/help/products/website-contacts-scraper.md"
canonical_url: "https://lookvalid.com/help/products/website-contacts-scraper"
last_updated: "2026-10-22"
type: "how-to"
summary: "What Website Contacts Scraper takes in, which fields it returns and how credits are charged for each lookup."
related: ["https://lookvalid.com/help/products/domain-authority.md", "https://lookvalid.com/help/products/domain-age.md", "https://lookvalid.com/help/products/website-scraper.md", "https://lookvalid.com/help/billing/plans-and-credits.md"]
---

# How to use Website Contacts Scraper

What Website Contacts Scraper takes in, which fields it returns and how credits are charged for each lookup.

## What it does

Reads a domain's public pages and returns the email addresses, phone numbers and social profile links they publish.

## What you send

Send these fields in the JSON body of the request.

No single field is required on its own, but a request with none of them is rejected: Provide url or domain.

Request fields for Website Contacts Scraper

| Field | Type | Required | Limits |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| url | string | Optional | up to 2,048 characters |
| domain | string | Optional | up to 253 characters |
| max_pages | integer | Optional | at least 1, at most 10 |
| country | string | Optional | fixed format |

## What you get back

The `data` object of a successful response carries these fields. Every response also lists its `sources`, the `credits_charged` and whether it was a `cache_hit`.

Each field is described in the [API reference](https://lookvalid.com/docs/api/website-contacts-scraper.md).

Response fields for Website Contacts Scraper

| Field | Type |
| --- | --- |
| emails | list |
| phones | list |
| social_profiles | list |
| pages_scanned | list |
| scanned_at | string |

## What it costs

10 credits per domain with contacts found.

What each outcome costs

| Case | Charge |
| --- | --- |
| Found | 10 credits |
| Nothing found | 0 credits |
| Repeat inside 7 days | 0 credits |
| Errors and invalid requests | 0 credits |

## Run it

You can try it without an account in the [free tool](https://lookvalid.com/tools.md). The free tools share a limit per visitor.

From code, send a POST request to `https://YOUR_API_HOST/v1/website-contacts-scraper` with your API key.

A request to Website Contacts Scraper

```bash
curl -X POST https://YOUR_API_HOST/v1/website-contacts-scraper \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOKVALID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"python.org","max_pages":5}'
```

Full parameters and response fields are in the [API reference](https://lookvalid.com/docs/api/website-contacts-scraper.md). To run a list of values, use a [bulk CSV job](https://lookvalid.com/help/api/bulk-csv-jobs.md).

## Good to know

- A repeat of the same lookup within 7 days is served from your cache and costs 0 credits.
- When the lookup finds nothing it returns `found: false` and costs 0 credits.
- Invalid input and errors are never charged.
- The API allows 200 requests per 10 seconds per key.

## Related

- [How to use Domain Authority](https://lookvalid.com/help/products/domain-authority.md)
- [How to use Domain Age](https://lookvalid.com/help/products/domain-age.md)
- [How to use Website Scraper](https://lookvalid.com/help/products/website-scraper.md)
- [Plans, credits and how they are spent](https://lookvalid.com/help/billing/plans-and-credits.md)