Tools & keys · Contacts
Tomba setup
Article URL in, the author's email out.
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Free tier
Tomba's free plan includes a small number of searches each month (25 at the time of writing).checked September 2026
Larvabot's cap
Stops at 22 a month (free: 25). Change it in Settings → Free-quota guard.Fallback position
#4 of 5 for contact finding. See the orderWhat it does
Tomba is an email finder. Its author finder takes the URL of an article and returns the email address of whoever wrote it.
- The author finder is tried for every lead page that shows no email
- Domain search as a last resort
Get set up
- Create a free Tomba account
- Copy both your API key and API secret into Settings → Contacts
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
Tomba API keyencrypted
TOMBA_API_KEY••••••••••••
Tomba API secretencrypted
TOMBA_API_SECRET••••••••••••
Staying free
Larvabot caps Tomba at 22 searches a month and only uses it after the page itself (and Prospeo, when there's a name) came up empty.
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.
- 1Page + contact-page scraping
- 2MX check (DNS-over-HTTPS)
- 3Prospeo
- 4Tomba
- 5Hunter.io
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