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# Dropcontact

> Connect Dropcontact to find and verify professional email addresses in your workflows.

## How to set up Dropcontact

### Authentication

Dropcontact uses API key authentication:

1. Log in to your Dropcontact account
2. Navigate to **API** section
3. Copy your API key
4. Paste the API key in Cargo when connecting

## Dropcontact actions

### Find email

Find a person's professional email address using identifying information.

**Input fields (provide as many as available):**

* **Email**: Known email to validate/enrich
* **First name**: Person's first name
* **Last name**: Person's last name
* **Full name**: Full name (alternative to first/last)
* **Phone**: Phone number
* **Company**: Company name
* **Website**: Company website/domain
* **LinkedIn**: Person's LinkedIn profile URL
* **Company LinkedIn**: Company LinkedIn page URL
* **Country**: Country (helps with localization)
* **SIREN/SIRET**: French company identifiers (for French companies)

**Use cases:**

* Find email addresses for leads with name and company
* Enrich partial contact data
* Validate existing email addresses
* Complete profiles from LinkedIn data

## Response data

Dropcontact returns enriched contact information including:

| Field       | Description                 |
| ----------- | --------------------------- |
| email       | Professional email address  |
| first\_name | Cleaned first name          |
| last\_name  | Cleaned last name           |
| full\_name  | Complete name               |
| company     | Company name                |
| website     | Company domain              |
| linkedin    | LinkedIn profile URL        |
| phone       | Phone number (if available) |
| job         | Job title                   |
| seniority   | Seniority level             |

## Credits

Dropcontact uses a credit-based system:

* Each email lookup costs 1 credit
* Credits are tracked by Cargo

Caching is supported to avoid duplicate lookups for the same contact.

## Rate limits

Dropcontact API has a rate limit of 60 requests per minute. The integration includes automatic retry logic with exponential backoff for reliability.

## Best practices

* Provide as much identifying information as possible for higher match rates
* Use caching to optimize credit usage
* Combine with other enrichment sources for better coverage
* Company domain often yields better results than company name alone
* LinkedIn URL provides the most reliable matching