Keencrest guides

Step-by-step guides for collecting business and market data: finding emails, building lead lists, exporting social and app data. Each guide shows real output from a real run and what it cost.

Need the list, not the tool? Lead lists: pick a trade and a city, get a CSV of local businesses with website, phone and business email. Tech lists: every site in a country using Shopify, WooCommerce, Klaviyo or HubSpot, with evidence.

Automating it? Importable n8n, Make and Google Sheets templates for email lookup.

Weekly feeds: New UK companies this week (every Companies House incorporation, by sector) Funded this week (new US Form D raises) New US trucking carriers this week (every new FMCSA registration, by state and fleet size) UK and EU public tenders for web, marketing and IT agencies and US WARN layoff notices by state New federal grants this week (Grants.gov, by category) Recent federal awards by ALN and NAICS (USAspending) Hail reports this week (NWS storm reports, by state and county).

Finding emails and building lead lists

• Find business emails from a list of websites: 68% hit rate, measured
  Paste a list of company websites, get back the email each site publishes. Measured on 124 small-business sites: 68% returned an email. US$0.002 per site with an email, nothing for the rest.
• Extract emails from a website, or from 1,000: three methods compared
  Extract emails from one website by hand, a few with an extension, or hundreds with a scraper that reads contact and about pages. Measured: 68% of 124 small-business sites gave an email.
• Google Maps leads to CSV: local business emails and phones
  Export local businesses from Google Maps to CSV with phone, website and email, step by step, with output from a real run on Denver plumbers.
• Google Maps scraper: official API, DIY or a ready-made Actor
  Three ways to get business data out of Google Maps and when each is the right one, with real costs and the limits of each.
• Apollo alternatives for small teams: pick by how you work
  An honest guide to replacing or supplementing Apollo.io when you only need contact data: what a subscription gives, what pay-per-result gives, and when to stay.
• Hunter.io alternatives: when you need more than domain search
  What Hunter does, where its credit model costs more than you need, and three alternative approaches for finding business emails, stated fairly.
• Free email finder: what free actually gets you
  A practical look at free email finders: monthly credit caps, what the free tiers cover, and how to find business emails for pennies when you outgrow them.
• Bulk keyword search volume without a Google Ads account
  Get monthly search volume, CPC and competition for thousands of keywords in one run without Keyword Planner. Real numbers for 43 keywords.
• Buy a local business email list by trade and city
  What to look for when you buy a local business email list by trade and city, what it costs on Fiverr, Clay, Apollo or DIY, and how to test a list before paying.
• Where to get a list of contractors with emails
  Four ways to get a list of contractors (plumbers, roofers, electricians, HVAC) with business emails and phones, what each costs, and what to check before you use it.
• Dentist email list by city: practice office emails, built in one run
  Build a dentist email list for any city: practice office emails read from each dental office's own website. A real Austin, TX run found an email for 6 of 10 practices. What a good list contains and what it costs.
• Restaurant email list for B2B outreach: what to buy and what to avoid
  How to get a restaurant email list for B2B selling (POS, supplies, delivery, marketing): which fields matter, what it costs, and how to stay on the right side of anti-spam law.
• Real estate agency leads list: how to get one with emails
  How to get a list of real estate agencies and brokerages in a city with website, phone and business email, what it costs, and what to avoid.
• Businesses without websites: lead lists by city
  How to get a list of local businesses that have no website, by trade and city, with phones and ratings, and what a real run on Austin plumbers returned, including the limits.
• List of registered investment advisers by state (SEC Form ADV)
  Where the SEC's free Form ADV file lists registered investment advisers by state, what it contains and leaves out, and how to turn it into a contact list.

Email lists by trade

• Construction leads: how to get a list of builders with emails
  Construction leads: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Real estate agent email list: what to buy, what to avoid
  Real estate agent email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Buy an email list safely: a B2B buyer's checklist
  Buy an email list safely: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Contractor leads list: plumbers, roofers and electricians with emails
  Get a contractor leads list for one trade and one city, with the business email each contractor publishes on its own site. A real Denver plumbers run found an email for 8 of 10.
• CEO email list: finding founders who just raised money
  CEO email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Chiropractor email list: office contacts that are safe to write to
  Chiropractor email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Veterinarian email list: clinics and animal hospitals
  Veterinarian email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Physical therapist email list: clinic contacts for B2B sellers
  Physical therapist email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Mortgage broker email list: where the contacts come from
  Mortgage broker email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Accountant email list: CPA firms and bookkeepers
  Accountant email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Insurance agent email list: agencies you can reach
  Insurance agent email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Small business email list: build one for a single city
  Small business email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• B2B lead list: how to build or buy one for local services
  B2B lead list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Local business leads: get a CSV for one trade and one city
  Local business leads: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Electrician email list: contractors and electrical firms
  Electrician email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Construction company email list: builders, GCs and subs
  Construction company email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• HVAC contractor email list: heating and cooling firms
  HVAC contractor email list: what a useful list contains, how to verify it, CAN-SPAM basics and what it costs, with a real sample row format.
• Roofing company leads list: roofer emails by city, in one run
  Build a roofing company leads list for any city, with the business email each roofer publishes on its own site. A real Phoenix, AZ run found an email for 9 of 10 roofers.
• A list of newly funded startups: where to get one and what it contains
  List of newly funded startups: what SEC Form D filings contain, their limits, a real week of data and how to reach the executives.
• Startups that raised a round this week: how to find them
  Startups that raised series a this week: what SEC Form D filings contain, their limits, a real week of data and how to reach the executives.

Email lookup in your tools

• Find emails from a website list in Clay with an HTTP API column
  Add an HTTP API column in Clay that calls Apify's run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint to return a business email for each company website. Real request, response and cost.
• Clay: find a contact email per row with the Run Apify Actor action
  Use Clay's Run Apify Actor action with the perRow input to get a business email, phones and contact page for one website per row. Request body, measured latency and cost on 10 sites.
• Find emails from a list of websites in n8n with Apify
  Build an n8n workflow that reads company websites, calls the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper and writes the emails back, with the real request and output.
• Find emails from a website list in Make (formerly Integromat)
  Use Make's HTTP module to run the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper on a list of websites and map the emails into a spreadsheet, with the real request and response.
• Find emails from a company website in Zapier with Webhooks
  Use Webhooks by Zapier to call the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper for each new row and write the email back, with the real request and response.
• Find emails from a website list in Google Sheets (Apps Script)
  A copy-paste Google Apps Script that reads websites from column A, calls the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper and writes the email and status to columns B and C. Tested.
• Find emails from company websites in Airtable (automation script)
  An Airtable automation script action that sends websites to the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper and writes the emails back to the records. The request is tested.
• Find emails from a website list in Python (CSV in, CSV out)
  A tested Python script that reads a CSV of company websites, calls the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper in one request and writes emails back to a new CSV.
• Enrich a HubSpot company list with contact emails from their websites
  Export HubSpot companies, find a published business email for each domain with the Apify Website Contact Details Scraper, and import them back into a custom property.
• n8n: Google Maps leads to Google Sheets with contact emails
  Import an n8n workflow that searches Google Maps, finds each business's contact email and writes the rows to Google Sheets, using the n8n-nodes-datagleaner community node. Two templates, real test numbers.

Comparisons

• Best website email extractor tools in 2026: price and billing compared
  Hunter, Snov.io, Apify's Contact Details Scraper and our Website Contact Details Scraper compared on price, free tier and billing unit, checked 2026-11-01.
• Best Google Maps lead scrapers in 2026: price per place compared
  Outscraper, Apify's Google Maps Scraper and our Google Maps Leads Scraper compared on free tier, price per 1,000 places and the extra cost of emails, checked 2026-11-01.
• Cheapest way to find company emails from a list of domains
  Five ways to turn a list of company domains into email addresses, with the real price per 1,000 domains for each, checked 2026-11-01.

Alternatives to paid lead tools

• Bulk domain email lookup: Hunter, Outscraper, Snov.io and ours for 1,000 domains
  Hunter, Outscraper, Snov.io and our Website Contact Details Scraper compared on price for 1,000 domains, billing unit and what each returns, checked 2026-11-01.
• Outscraper alternatives: Google Maps and email scraping compared
  Outscraper against Apify's Google Maps Scraper, our Google Maps Leads Scraper and ready-made lead packs, on free tier, price per 1,000 places and emails, checked 2026-11-01.
• Local-business lead lists without Apollo: prices compared
  Apollo, Outscraper, Hunter and lead lists built from Google Maps compared for local-business leads, with prices checked 2026-11-01 and where Apollo is still the better pick.
• Snov.io alternatives: email finder and outreach tools compared
  Snov.io's credit pricing against Hunter, Apollo, Outscraper and pay-per-result scrapers for finding business emails, with prices checked 2026-11-01.
• Lusha alternatives: contact data tools compared on price per credit
  Lusha's plans and credit prices against Apollo, Clay and pay-per-result scrapers for B2B contact data, with figures checked 2026-11-01 and where Lusha is still the right pick.
• Clay alternatives for lead enrichment and list building
  Clay's plans and credit prices against Apollo, Lusha and simpler tools for list building, with figures checked 2026-11-01 and where Clay is worth its price.
• ZoomInfo alternatives for teams that do not need an enterprise contract
  ZoomInfo publishes no prices; here are alternatives with public prices (Apollo, Lusha, Clay, scrapers) and a plain account of when ZoomInfo's depth is worth the quote.
• Seamless.AI alternatives with published prices
  Seamless.AI publishes no prices on its pricing page; here are alternatives with public prices and an account of what each does and does not cover, checked 2026-11-01.
• RocketReach alternatives: how to choose a contact lookup tool
  A decision guide for replacing RocketReach with Apollo, Lusha, Snov.io or pay-per-result scrapers. RocketReach's own prices could not be read, so none are quoted.

Done-for-you lists

• Done-for-you company contact lists from your list of websites
  Send a list of company websites and get generic company mailboxes, phone numbers and social links back as a CSV. $49 per 1,000 sites, no named individuals.
• We fill your GPSR product fields for you (WooCommerce, Tidyleaf import CSV)
  Send your WooCommerce product export and the supplier details you hold. We return a ready-to-import CSV for the Tidyleaf Product Safety plugin and a list of what is missing. Free 20-product sample, then $49 per 500 products. Not legal advice.
• Free GPSR product information sheet generator (print sheet and Tidyleaf import row)
  Type the manufacturer, EU responsible person, product identifiers and warnings. Get a printable info sheet and one CSV row for the Tidyleaf Product Safety plugin. Runs in your browser; nothing you type leaves it. Not legal advice.

Site audits

• Free SEO audit of up to 100 pages: what a crawler checks
  What a site crawler checks on every page, how the 0-100 score and ranked issues table work, and the output of a real 15-page audit with its cost.
• Find broken external links on your site
  How to find dead outbound links across a whole site, why some links can only be called unverified, and what a real run on an older site found, with cost.
• Post-migration redirect checklist
  A checklist for the week after a domain, HTTPS or www change, with a crawl step that finds redirect chains and links still pointing at old addresses, shown on real output.

News and brand monitoring

• Monitor news mentions of a brand for free (open GDELT data)
  Set up a news-mention alert for a brand or topic from the open GDELT feed: filters, watch mode for new articles only, and the counts and cost of real runs.
• News sentiment by country: how GDELT tone works
  What the GDELT tone score measures, how to read positive, negative and polarity, and how to pull negative-tone coverage for a country or topic, with a real run.
• Get a Slack alert when your brand is in the news
  Hourly Slack alert for new news articles that mention your brand, using the open GDELT feed, Apify watch mode and a free n8n workflow or Google Sheets script.
• n8n template: hourly brand news alert to Slack
  Importable n8n workflow: every hour, new news articles about your brand from the GDELT feed are posted to Slack. Nodes, settings, cost and limits.
• Google Sheets template: hourly news mentions of your brand
  Apps Script for Google Sheets that checks the open GDELT news feed every hour and appends new articles about your brand to a Mentions tab.
• Get a Discord alert when your brand is in the news
  Hourly Discord channel alert for new news articles that mention your brand, using the open GDELT feed, Apify watch mode and a free importable n8n workflow.
• Get a Microsoft Teams alert when your brand is in the news
  Hourly Microsoft Teams channel alert for new news articles that mention your brand, using the open GDELT feed, Apify watch mode and a free importable n8n workflow.
• Make.com blueprint: hourly brand news alert to Slack
  Importable Make.com scenario blueprint: new news articles about your brand from the GDELT feed, posted to Slack as one message. Modules, settings, cost and limits.

Vendor outage alerts

• SaaS outage alerts in Slack, Teams, Discord or email for small IT teams and agencies
  Get a message when GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Shopify or 66 other SaaS vendors post an incident. $9 a month for 25 vendors, $29 for all 70. Ordered by email, paid by PayPal invoice.

Business name checks

• Is my business name taken? Check by state (all 50 states and DC)
  One page per state with the official business-name search, what it misses, the USPTO trademark search and a bulk domain check.

• Is my business name taken? UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand
  Official company-name search links for the UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and every Canadian province and territory, with what each misses and a bulk domain check.

• n8n template: RSS feed to Slack or Discord (new items only)
  Importable n8n workflow that watches any RSS or Atom feed, such as a vendor status page feed, and posts each new item to Slack or Discord. No Apify, no fee.

Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)

• SPF, DKIM and DMARC checker: free, runs in your browser
  Type your domain and see whether its SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are in place, with the fix for each. Free, nothing stored. Flat $29 if you want the records drafted for you.
• Email header analyzer: free, runs in your browser
  Paste raw email headers and get a plain verdict: Received hops and delays, SPF, DKIM and DMARC results, From alignment, ARC and Message-ID. Free; nothing is sent to any server.
• DMARC monitoring: weekly SPF, DKIM and DMARC re-checks (early access)
  Planned: weekly monitoring of your domains' SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, with an email when a record breaks or a new sender fails. Not live yet; join the free early-access list.

OCR, contact-page and company-domain tools

• Find a company's website from its name (bulk): 96% on known companies, $0.80 per 1,000 found
  Turn a list of company names into official websites. Measured on Apify: 48 of 50 known companies found, 23 of 59 small local firms, $0.0008 per website found, misses free.
• Company names to business emails (bulk): 11 of 20 names, $0.04 measured
  Turn a list of company names into websites and generic company mailboxes in one run. Measured on Apify with 20 names: 19 websites found, 11 with an email, about $0.04 in total, with the misses explained.
• OCR API, pay per page, no subscription: $0.003 per page
  Turn images and scanned PDFs into text through an API that charges $0.003 per page with text and nothing for blank pages or failed files. Real outputs, confidence scores and limits.
• Find contact forms on a list of websites: contact page, form type, captcha
  Give a list of website addresses and get each site's contact page URL, the form provider, the visible form fields and whether a captcha is present. It never submits a form and returns no emails or phones.
• Find a Google Play app's competitors and similar apps, with installs: $0.30 per 1,000 apps
  Pull the apps Google Play lists as similar to any app, plus a developer's apps, with install brackets, ratings and categories. Real run, price $0.30 per 1,000 apps, limits.
• Export a Google Play developer's app list and a category's competitor apps, with installs and ratings
  Get every app a Google Play developer publishes, plus the apps Google Play lists as similar to your app, as one table with install brackets and ratings. Exact input, a real 17-record sample and limits.
• FMCSA insurance cancellation list and MC suspension list: what it is and how to pull it
  How to get FMCSA's daily list of cancelled carrier insurance filings and operating-authority suspension notices as a table. Exact input, a real sample, and what these administrative records do not mean.
• GPSR product information fields for WooCommerce: what Article 19 asks an online offer to show
  The product information the EU General Product Safety Regulation (2023/988, Article 19) names for online offers, and ways to store and show it per product in WooCommerce, by hand or with a free plugin. Not legal advice.
• Convert PDF to Markdown via API, pay per PDF: $0.0035 each
  Convert PDF links to Markdown and RAG chunks through an API that charges $0.0035 per PDF and nothing for scans or dead links. A real run on a sample file, with limits.
• Split PDFs into chunks for RAG (Markdown, pay per PDF): $0.0035 each
  Split a long PDF into page-cited chunks for RAG through an API that charges $0.0035 per PDF. A real run on an 85-page public document, code, and the limits of heading splits.

Auf Deutsch

• GPSR-Pflichtangaben im WooCommerce-Shop: was Artikel 19 für das Online-Angebot nennt
  Welche Produktangaben die EU-Produktsicherheitsverordnung (2023/988, Artikel 19) für Online-Angebote nennt und wie Sie sie je Produkt in WooCommerce ablegen und anzeigen, von Hand oder mit einem kostenlosen Plugin. Keine Rechtsberatung.
• Widerrufsbutton im WooCommerce-Shop: was Artikel 11a der Richtlinie 2011/83/EU verlangt
  Was die Widerrufsfunktion nach Artikel 11a der Verbraucherrechterichtlinie (ab 19. Juni 2026) von Online-Shops verlangt, wo sie in Deutschland steht (§ 356a BGB) und wie das Plugin-Modul beim Einrichten hilft. Keine Rechtsberatung.

Data products and weekly feeds

• Local business lead lists by trade and city
• Keencrest Weekly Lead Feed: new local business leads every Monday
• Startups that just raised money: new Form D filings, week of Nov 2 2026
• New companies registered in the UK this week: 14,412 incorporations, week of Oct 26 2026
• New trucking companies and DOT numbers this week: 2,446 new carriers, week of Oct 26 2026
• New French companies every week, by region and sector (Sirene data)
• UK and EU tenders for web, marketing and IT agencies: 827 new notices, week of Oct 27 2026
• US WARN layoff notices this week by state (CSV)
• Custom scraper or data feed as a hosted API in 48 hours
• Marketing and web agency lists: UK, Australia, New Zealand, US and Canada
• UK care home, homecare, dental and GP practice contact lists from CQC data
• US investment adviser (RIA) and VC/PE fund manager contact lists
• Lists of websites using Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, HubSpot or Klaviyo, by country
• US school district list by state: phone, website, enrolment (CSV)
• White-label accessibility audit reports for web agencies
• Cookie consent leak audit for agencies
• Whop Content Rewards campaigns today: CPM, budgets, platforms
• New federal grants this week: Grants.gov opportunities by category
• Recent federal awards by ALN and NAICS code
• UK towns with licensed visa sponsors
• UK companies by turnover
• Hail reports this week by state
• Product recalls this week: 12 US and 67 EU alerts, week to Nov 2 2026