# Financial Advisor Lead Scraper — Verified Emails (`samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper`) Actor

Scrape financial advisor & insurance agent contacts from Google Maps with verified emails & phones. Real-time data from advisor websites. Export to HubSpot, Salesforce, or CSV. Built for fintech sales & wealth management marketing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sam Kleespies](https://apify.com/samstorm) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 24 total users, 1 monthly users, 92.9% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 enriched financial leads

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Financial Advisor Lead Scraper — Verified Emails & RIA Contact Database

Find financial advisor businesses on Google Maps, discover contact emails on their websites, and export business details, social links, and email-verification evidence for prospect research and CRM workflows. Email availability and mailbox confirmation vary by business.

### Quick start

1. Select a business category and one city or region.
2. Start with a small sample and inspect the output before scaling.
3. Use Full output to keep verification evidence, or choose HubSpot or Salesforce column names for import.

```json
{
  "businessType": "Financial Advisor",
  "location": "Manhattan, NY",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "enrichEmails": true,
  "verifyEmails": true,
  "enrichSocials": true,
  "outputFormat": "full"
}
```

Supported categories: Financial Advisor, Insurance Agent, Wealth Manager, Accountant/CPA, Mortgage Broker, Tax Preparer. To use a custom search phrase, select Custom and fill searchQuery. Each run accepts one location; run separate tasks for multiple regions and deduplicate using mapsUrl.

### Output and email quality

Full output includes name, category, address, phone, website, mapsUrl, rating, reviewCount, email, emailVerified, emailDomainHasMx, emailVerificationStatus, emailVerificationNote, allEmails, and socialLinks. Missing website or contact fields can be empty. An output lead does not guarantee an email.

- emailDomainHasMx reports domain-level MX evidence. It does not verify a mailbox.
- emailVerified is true only when SMTP accepts the recipient and rejects a random address.
- SMTP timeouts, unavailable hosts, and catch-all responses remain unconfirmed. Read the status and note before using an address.
- No email message is sent during verification. There is no promised inbox rate or bounce rate.

CRM exports use CRM column names; use Full output when you need verification evidence. Examples describe the schema, not guaranteed results.

### Pricing and cost control

The Pricing tab shows current event rates. Result events apply to emitted business records, including records without an email. Startup events may also apply. Platform usage is charged separately under the current configuration. Total cost depends on output count, enabled enrichment, proxy usage, and runtime. Review the complete pricing table before running.

Use a small maxResults value and the Console maximum-cost and timeout controls for your first test. Disable email or social discovery when you only need Maps details. maxResults is an upper bound, not a result guarantee.

### Reliability and recurring use

Maps feed and detail retries are bounded. Source blocks and unexplained extraction failures surface as errors instead of a misleading empty success. Explicit no-match searches can finish with zero results. Some optional business websites may reject requests; their unavailable fields remain empty.

Save a tested input as a task for repeat runs. Keep mapsUrl as a deduplication key when merging exports. For a problem report, include a shared run link, business category, location, expected result, and actual result. Do not include API tokens or proxy credentials.

If the Actor is useful, an honest review describing your use case helps other users evaluate it.

### Related lead workflows

- [Lawyer and attorney leads](https://apify.com/samstorm/lawyer-lead-scraper)
- [Dentist and medical practice leads](https://apify.com/samstorm/dentist-lead-scraper)
- [Med spa and aesthetics leads](https://apify.com/samstorm/med-spa-lead-scraper)

### September 2026 update

Corrected verification semantics, separated domain and mailbox evidence, bounded Maps recovery, and added explicit run summaries and unusable-output errors.

# Actor input Schema

## `businessType` (type: `string`):

Select the type of financial professional to find on Google Maps. The actor automatically constructs the search using this type plus your location — for example, selecting 'Wealth Manager' targets high-net-worth advisory firms, while 'Tax Preparer' finds seasonal and year-round tax offices. Choose 'Custom' to write your own search query instead.

## `location` (type: `string`):

The city, state, or region to search for financial professionals in. Use 'City, ST' format for US locations (e.g., 'Manhattan, NY' for high-density RIA markets, 'Greenwich, CT' for wealth managers, or 'Dallas, TX' for a large metro). You can also use ZIP codes, neighborhoods, or broader regions like 'Financial District, San Francisco'. The actor searches Google Maps within this area.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

A raw Google Maps search query, used only when Business Type is set to 'Custom'. For all other types, the search is built automatically from Business Type + Location. Write queries the same way you would type them into Google Maps — e.g., 'fee-only financial planners in Manhattan, NY', 'fiduciary financial advisors in Chicago', or 'RIA firms in Boston MA'.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

The maximum number of leads to collect and return. The prefill is set to 3 for a quick test run — increase to 50–200 for production use. Google Maps typically returns up to 120 results per search query; use a smaller number first to verify data quality before scaling up.

## `enrichEmails` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, the actor visits each business website and scans contact pages, footers, and about pages to extract email addresses. Disable this option if you only need phone numbers and addresses, or want faster results without website crawling.

## `verifyEmails` (type: `boolean`):

Checks DNS MX records and attempts SMTP recipient and catch-all checks. Only explicit recipient acceptance with random-recipient rejection is confirmed. Timeouts, connection failures, and catch-all results remain unconfirmed. No message is sent; delivery is not guaranteed. Requires email discovery.

## `enrichSocials` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, the actor scans each business website for links to social media profiles including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter/X. LinkedIn profiles are especially valuable for financial advisor outreach — useful for multi-channel prospecting, verifying credentials, and account-based marketing campaigns.

## `outputFormat` (type: `string`):

Controls the structure of the output dataset. 'Full' returns all available fields. 'HubSpot Import' reformats the data to match HubSpot's CSV import column names for direct upload. 'Salesforce Import' reformats for Salesforce data import. All formats are available in Apify's dataset export (CSV, JSON, Excel).

## `proxyUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional HTTP proxy URL for using third-party residential proxies instead of Apify's built-in proxies. Format: http://username:password@host:port. Compatible with IPRoyal, Smartproxy, Bright Data, and other rotating proxy services. Leave empty to use Apify's default residential proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "businessType": "Accountant/CPA",
  "location": "Manhattan, NY",
  "searchQuery": "fee-only financial planners in Manhattan, NY",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "enrichEmails": true,
  "verifyEmails": true,
  "enrichSocials": true,
  "outputFormat": "full",
  "proxyUrl": "http://user:pass@proxy.example.com:8080"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "location": "Manhattan, NY",
    "searchQuery": "financial advisors in Manhattan, NY",
    "maxResults": 3,
    "outputFormat": "full"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "location": "Manhattan, NY",
    "searchQuery": "financial advisors in Manhattan, NY",
    "maxResults": 3,
    "outputFormat": "full",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "location": "Manhattan, NY",
  "searchQuery": "financial advisors in Manhattan, NY",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "outputFormat": "full"
}' |
apify call samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,samstorm/financial-advisor-lead-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bIsqgscAJm7I1Nfnw/builds/zA09ouRrGoKTMDAnA/openapi.json