Hunter.io + Google Sheets
Your prospect list lives in a sheet. Find emails for the names and domains in each row, verify them, and write the result back next to each lead.
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Connect Hunter.io to ChatGPT or Claude
Use Hunter to find, check and act on email addresses without pasting them in one at a time. Leads can be verified before anyone writes to them, contacts can be looked up from a name and company domain, and campaign replies can be passed to your team. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.
Try asking
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 7am, verify the emails of leads added to my Hunter list 'Q3 SaaS founders' since yesterday, and email me the ones that are undeliverable or risky.
Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.
Ideas
What you can automate in Hunter.io
Bad addresses caught before they hurt your sending, and replies to your Hunter campaigns brought to you. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Daily
Verify new leads in a Hunter list every day
Each day you get the new leads whose emails are invalid or risky, before you write to them.
See how it worksEvery 15 minutes
Post Hunter campaign replies to Slack
When a recipient replies to one of your Hunter campaigns, your team sees it in Slack.
See how it worksDaily
Get warned when Hunter credits run low
Each morning, Hunter's account usage is checked and an email goes out when searches or verifications left for the month drop below 10%, with the reset date.
See how it worksWeekly
Add new contacts at target companies to a Hunter list
Every Monday, Hunter's Domain Search runs for a set of company domains and any new contacts in chosen departments are saved as leads in a Hunter list, with an email summary.
See how it worksDaily
Find missing emails for leads in a Hunter list
Every day, leads in a Hunter list that have a name and company domain but no email are run through Hunter's Email Finder, and found addresses are saved back to the lead.
See how it works Your own logicAny other automation you can describe in words
Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Hunter.io, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.
See how to build your ownBuild your own
Build any Hunter.io automation you can describe
The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Hunter.io should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
For example, ask your assistant
Every day, take new company domains I add to a list, find the CEO's email with Hunter.io and only keep emails it marks as valid.
For each new row in my Google Sheet with a name and company domain, look up the email with Hunter.io and fill it in.
When a new lead lands in my Google Sheet, find their email with Hunter.io, verify it and send a short intro from Gmail if it is valid.
Works with
Hunter.io with the apps you already use
Hunter fills in and checks email addresses, but the lists and messages usually live somewhere else. Connecting it cleans the addresses in your sheets and inbox before you use them.
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Hunter.io + Gmail
Check an address before you send to it, or find the right person's email and send a personal note from your own inbox.
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Hunter.io works with hundreds of other apps
Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.
- Slack
- HubSpot
- Pipedrive
- Salesforce
- Attio
- Close
- Airtable
- Notion
- lemlist
- Instantly
- Smartlead
- Apollo.io
- Typeform
- Jotform
- Outlook
- Zoho CRM
Beyond chat
Have Hunter.io work when you're not in the chat
Connecting Hunter.io to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.
On a schedule
Verify new leads in a Hunter list every dayDaily
Watches for changes
Post Hunter campaign replies to SlackEvery 15 minutes
On a schedule
Get warned when Hunter credits run lowDaily
Setup
Connect Hunter.io
You connect Hunter with the API key from your own Hunter dashboard. Every account has one, including free accounts.
Hunter.io
Email finder
- Sign in to Hunter and open the API keys page in your dashboard.
- Copy your key, or generate a new one.
- In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Hunter. It is sent in the
X-API-KEYheader.
Good to know
Hunter.io limits that affect automations
- Every lookup and verification uses credits from your Hunter plan. When they run out Hunter returns an error until your quota resets.
- Email Verifier allows 10 requests per second and 300 per minute, so verifying a big list is spread over a few minutes.
- Domain Search, Email Finder and enrichment allow 15 per second and 500 per minute. Discover allows 5 per second and 50 per minute.
- Hunter doesn't push campaign replies, so reply alerts check your campaigns every 15 minutes.
FAQ
Questions about automating Hunter.io
What can ClickRuntime do with my Hunter key?
It can find emails by domain or by name, enrich and verify addresses, read your Hunter lists, and check your campaign recipients for replies.
Does it use my Hunter credits?
Yes. Each search or verification counts against your plan, just as it would in Hunter. A daily verification only checks leads added since the last run.
Does it work on a free Hunter account?
Yes, free accounts get an API key too. The number of lookups you can make is limited by your plan's credits.
How quickly do I hear about campaign replies?
Within about 15 minutes. The automation checks your Hunter campaigns on that schedule and posts any recipient whose status has changed to replied.
Do I need AI for Hunter automations?
No. Verification, lookups and reply alerts run without it. If you ask for personalised outreach drafts, that uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Hunter.io connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Hunter.io data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Hunter.io while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Hunter.io event.
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