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Mohamed Kazaz
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How to Extract B2B Leads Without Coding

Every sales team knows the routine: open a company website, hunt for a contact page, copy an email into a spreadsheet, repeat. Doing that for 20 companies is tedious. Doing it for 500 is a lost week. The good news is that you can extract B2B leads without coding, and you do not need to build a scraper to do it.
What you actually need from a company website
For outbound prospecting, most teams need four things: a contact email, a phone number, a LinkedIn or social profile, and a reason to reach out. Most of this is published openly on the company's own site, usually on the homepage footer or the contact and about pages.
The no-code way
Apify hosts ready-made tools called Actors that you run from a browser form. You paste a list of URLs, press Start, and download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON. No Python, no servers, no proxies to configure.
Disclosure: I built one of these, the B2B Lead Enricher, so I will use it as the example. The steps are the same for any contact-finding Actor.

  1. Open the Actor page and click Try for free.
  2. Paste your list of company websites into the input.
  3. Click Start and wait a few seconds per site.
  4. Open the Dataset tab and export to CSV. The output includes emails, phone numbers and social links found on the site, plus the contact and about pages, which is where most direct emails live. Plugging it into your workflow If you use Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n, you can run the Actor automatically whenever a new row appears in a sheet. That turns a manual research task into a background job. What this will not do Be realistic about limits. Only publicly listed contact details can be found. Some sites block automated access, and large enterprise sites often do. A generic address like info@ is common, so treat results as a starting point and verify emails before any bulk send. Stay on the right side of the rules Finding a business contact is not the same as having permission to email them. Follow CAN-SPAM, GDPR and local laws, include an unsubscribe option, and keep outreach relevant and low-volume. Bottom line If your time is worth more than a few dollars per thousand lookups, automating contact discovery is one of the cheapest productivity wins in sales. Try it on 10 companies first and compare the result with your manual process. --- Disclosure: I built the B2B Lead Enricher Actor on Apify. You can try it for free here: https://apify.com/kazaz_organization/my-actor

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