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Hunter setup

A last-resort email finder.

Optional
Updated
Free tier
Hunter's free plan includes 50 searches a month (plus verifications).
checked September 2026
Larvabot's cap
Stops at 45 a month (free: 50). Change it in Settings → Free-quota guard.
Fallback position
#5 of 5 for contact finding. See the order

What it does

Hunter finds email addresses associated with a website's domain.

  • Only when a lead's own pages (author bio, contact and about pages, mailto links) show no email

Get set up

  1. Create a free Hunter account
  2. Copy your API key into Settings → Contacts
Open Hunter pricing

Where it goes

In the dashboard, open Settings and find the Contacts section. Secret values are encrypted before they're saved and only their last four characters are ever shown again.

Settings → Contacts
Hunter API keyencrypted
HUNTER_API_KEY
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Staying free

Larvabot scrapes the lead's own pages first (free and unlimited), then tries Prospeo and Tomba, and calls Hunter only when those find nothing. It stops at 45 searches a month and checks Hunter's account endpoint for what's really left.

How the quota guard works →

Fallback order

For contact finding, Larvabot tries these in order and skips any that aren't set up, are out of free quota or are busy.

  1. 1Page + contact-page scraping
  2. 2MX check (DNS-over-HTTPS)
  3. 3Prospeo
  4. 4Tomba
  5. 5Hunter.io

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