# Simple Email Validator (`seemuapps/simple-email-validator`) Actor

Validate email addresses in bulk by checking syntax, MX records, disposable domains, role accounts, and free providers.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/simple-email-validator.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Simple Email Validator

Validate email addresses in bulk - check syntax, MX records, disposable providers, and role accounts in a single pass.

### What you get

For every email address you pass in, the actor returns:

- **Syntax check** - confirms the address conforms to standard email format
- **MX record lookup** - verifies the domain is configured to receive mail
- **Disposable detection** - flags throwaway providers like Mailinator, 10MinuteMail, GuerrillaMail, etc.
- **Role account detection** - flags generic addresses like `info@`, `support@`, `sales@` that are not tied to a person
- **Free provider flag** - identifies Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud and other consumer mailboxes
- **Result classification** - every email is bucketed as `valid`, `risky`, or `invalid` with a human-readable reason

### Use cases

- **List hygiene** - clean a CRM or newsletter list before sending to protect sender reputation
- **Lead qualification** - filter scraped contact lists down to deliverable, person-owned addresses
- **Signup form validation** - block disposable and malformed addresses at registration
- **Sales prospecting** - verify scraped contact lists before launching outreach campaigns
- **Bounce prevention** - catch invalid syntax and dead domains before they hurt deliverability

### How to use

1. Paste one or more email addresses into the **Email Addresses** field (one per line)
2. Adjust **Concurrency** if you have a large list (default `25` parallel lookups)
3. Run the actor - results appear in the **Dataset** tab
4. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console

#### Validate a single address

```json
{
  "emails": ["hello@apify.com"]
}
```

#### Validate a bulk list

```json
{
  "emails": [
    "alice@example.com",
    "bob@example.com",
    "info@example.com",
    "throwaway@mailinator.com"
  ],
  "concurrency": 50
}
```

### Output format

One dataset record per input email:

```json
{
  "email": "hello@apify.com",
  "normalized": "hello@apify.com",
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "valid_syntax": true,
  "mx_found": true,
  "mx_records": [
    { "exchange": "aspmx.l.google.com", "priority": 1 },
    { "exchange": "alt1.aspmx.l.google.com", "priority": 5 }
  ],
  "is_disposable": false,
  "is_role_account": false,
  "is_free_provider": false,
  "result": "valid",
  "reason": "Syntax OK and domain accepts mail"
}
```

#### Result values

| Result | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `valid` | Syntax is correct and the domain has live MX records |
| `risky` | Domain is reachable but the address is disposable or role-based - deliverable but low-value |
| `invalid` | Syntax is malformed or the domain cannot receive mail |

### Parameters

| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| **Email Addresses** | *(required)* | One or more email addresses to validate. Each produces its own output record |
| **Concurrency** | `25` | How many emails to validate in parallel. Increase for large lists, decrease if hitting DNS rate limits |

### Notes

- Validation is performed entirely via DNS - no SMTP probes, no third-party lookups, no risk of getting your domain blacklisted
- The disposable-domain list is updated regularly and covers thousands of throwaway providers
- For SMTP-level deliverability checks (catch-all detection, mailbox existence), use a dedicated SMTP verifier - DNS-based validation is faster and cheaper but cannot confirm that a specific mailbox exists on a live domain

# Actor input Schema

## `emails` (type: `array`):

One or more email addresses to validate. Each address produces one output record.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many emails to validate in parallel. Higher = faster, but watch DNS rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "emails": [
    "hello@apify.com",
    "support@gmail.com",
    "fake@thisdomaindoesnotexist123.com"
  ],
  "concurrency": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Each record: { email, normalized, domain, valid\_syntax, mx\_found, mx\_records\[], is\_disposable, is\_role\_account, is\_free\_provider, result, reason }

# 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 = {
    "emails": [
        "hello@apify.com",
        "support@gmail.com",
        "fake@thisdomaindoesnotexist123.com"
    ],
    "concurrency": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/simple-email-validator").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 = {
    "emails": [
        "hello@apify.com",
        "support@gmail.com",
        "fake@thisdomaindoesnotexist123.com",
    ],
    "concurrency": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/simple-email-validator").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 '{
  "emails": [
    "hello@apify.com",
    "support@gmail.com",
    "fake@thisdomaindoesnotexist123.com"
  ],
  "concurrency": 25
}' |
apify call seemuapps/simple-email-validator --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/simple-email-validator"
        }
    }
}

```

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/QhiNJRZd6wMOhCrBD/builds/IaJiSalmX8WYqnVAM/openapi.json