hunter

What This Skill Does

The Hunter.io skill for OpenClaw is a powerful integration designed to bridge the gap between AI agents and professional contact discovery. By leveraging the Hunter.io API, this skill empowers agents to search for corporate email addresses, verify the deliverability of email contacts, and manage lead lists directly from the terminal or an agentic workflow. It acts as a bridge for B2B outreach, automating the tedious process of finding and validating professional contacts. Whether you are conducting market research, verifying your mailing list, or identifying authors of specific content, this tool centralizes your outreach data management.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your agentic environment, use the OpenClaw command line interface:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/aiwithabidi/hunter

Ensure that you have set your HUNTER_API_KEY in your environment variables. Without this key, the underlying scripts will not be able to authenticate with Hunter.io's servers. You can retrieve your key from your Hunter.io dashboard under the API section.

Use Cases

• Lead Generation: Automatically search for emails belonging to specific domains to build target lists for marketing campaigns.
• CRM Cleanup: Use the email verifier to clean existing databases, reducing bounce rates by identifying inactive or invalid email addresses.
• Content Research: Use the author finder to identify the writers of specific URLs, making it easier to reach out for collaborations or citations.
• Automated Outreach: Integrate lead creation and update functions into your CRM pipelines to keep contact records synchronized without manual entry.

Example Prompts

1. "Find all the professional email addresses associated with stripe.com and save them to my lead list."
2. "Verify the email address [email protected] to see if it is still active and deliverable."
3. "Who is the author of the article at https://techcrunch.com/example-story and what is their professional email?"

Tips & Limitations

• Rate Limits: Be mindful of your Hunter.io account tier. Excessive requests in a short period may hit your monthly API limit.
• Accuracy: While Hunter.io is highly accurate, email guessing (email-finder) is probabilistic. Always verify addresses before launching massive campaigns.
• Security: Ensure your API key is stored securely using an environment vault; do not hardcode it into scripts if you are sharing your OpenClaw setup.