A Hunter.io alternative that extracts real emails, not pattern guesses
Hunter guesses emails by matching name + domain against historical patterns, then SMTP-pings to verify. We crawl the actual company website and pull the addresses that are published there. Under 10% bounce vs Hunter's 30-50% on pattern-guessed addresses. Same job, cleaner data.
- Live website crawl — every email comes from a page that exists today
- Decodes Cloudflare-protected addresses Hunter silently loses
- Returns the person + title behind each email, not just an address
- Under 10% bounce on owner emails vs 30-50% on pattern guesses
Example input
brightsmiledental.example.com
Example output
{
"domain": "brightsmiledental.example.com",
"emails_found": 3,
"results": [
{
"address": "sarah@brightsmiledental.com",
"person": "Dr. Sarah Patel",
"title": "Owner / Lead Dentist",
"type": "direct",
"source_page": "/about",
"bounce_risk": "low",
"method": "extracted"
},
{
"address": "jen@brightsmiledental.com",
"person": "Jennifer Marquez",
"title": "Office Manager",
"source_page": "/team",
"method": "extracted"
},
{
"address": "info@brightsmiledental.com",
"type": "generic",
"source_page": "/contact"
}
]
}What you can extract
- All emails published on the company site, with source page for each
- Person name and job title when email is bylined on About / Team
- Direct vs generic email labeling (sarah@ vs info@)
- Phone numbers tied to the same person when published together
- LinkedIn handle and other social profiles per contact
- Cloudflare-obfuscated addresses, decoded automatically
- Crawl timestamp and source URL for full auditability
How it works
- 1Paste a domain, upload a CSV of domains, or describe a market we can resolve.
- 2We crawl About / Team / Contact / footer and decode obfuscated addresses.
- 3Get every email tied to a person, title, and source page — auditable, no guesses.
Common use cases
- Replace Hunter for SMB outreach where pattern-guess bounce kills sender reputation
- Find owner emails on Cloudflare-protected sites Hunter silently loses
- Bulk-process a list of 500 domains in parallel — usually under 20 minutes
- Audit a Hunter export by re-extracting from live sites to verify bounce rate
- Find press / hiring / sales contacts published on team pages
- Build a niche outreach list where Hunter's domain pattern database is thin
FAQ
How is Extractly different from Hunter.io?
Hunter pattern-guesses emails by matching a name + domain against historical patterns ('firstname@domain', 'first.last@domain', etc.) and verifying with SMTP pings. We don't guess — we crawl the company's actual website and extract the addresses that are published there. When someone's email isn't on the site, we tell you that instead of returning a low-confidence guess. Result: under 10% bounce for our emails vs. 30-50% bounce on guessed emails.
Can Extractly find emails Hunter can't?
Yes — specifically for small businesses where the owner publishes their direct email on the About / Team / Contact page but where Hunter's pattern database doesn't have data. About 38% of small business sites have a named owner with a direct email; Hunter often misses these because the domain isn't in their historical scrape. We catch them via live crawl.
Does Extractly decode Cloudflare-protected emails?
Yes. Cloudflare's email-obfuscation feature hides addresses as '[email protected]' with hex encoding. Most scrapers (including Hunter's domain-search) silently lose these — that's roughly 20% of addresses on Cloudflare-protected sites. Our crawler decodes them automatically.
Is Extractly cheaper than Hunter?
Comparable on the low end, dramatically cheaper at scale. Hunter's Starter is $49/month for 500 searches. Our Pro is $29/month for 1,000 leads — with full website crawl per lead, not just an email pattern lookup. Growth is $79 for 4,000 and Business is $249 for 15,000. There's also a free tier with 50/month.
Can I bulk-find emails for a list of domains?
Yes, parallel-processed. Upload a CSV of domains or use the Find Leads tool to generate domains from a market description ('dental practices in Phoenix'). 500 domains usually finishes in 12-20 minutes, with each row showing the emails found, the person each one belongs to, and the source page.
Does Extractly have a free plan like Hunter?
Yes — 50 leads per month forever, no credit card. Hunter's free plan is 25 searches/month and limits exports. Our free tier is twice that and exports work normally.