Hunter Zapier integrationAutomate Hunter with Zapier.
The Hunter Zapier integration covers 9 operations: 4 triggers, 2 actions and 3 searches. Enough to react when a prospect opens or answers a campaign email, feed new leads into a sequence, and check an address before anyone writes to it.
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What the Hunter Zapier integration does for you
It turns what happens in your Hunter campaigns into the starting point of other work, and lets other tools put contacts back into Hunter. A Zap (an automation on Zapier: one event that starts it, then steps that run every time) does the passing for you.
Three outcomes worth building. A warm follow-up list: Email Read spots each open, and Create Recipient drops that person into a second campaign. A clean lead base: New Lead fires on every lead you add, and Verify Email checks the address is deliverable before your sales rep spends time on it. An address you did not have: Find Email takes a company and a full name and returns the most likely email.
Three of the four triggers are instant, so opens, replies and new leads reach Zapier as they happen, even on the free plan. New Campaign is the exception: Zapier checks for it on a timer.
What Zapier does not do here: there is no action to update or delete a lead, and no way to start, pause or edit a campaign. You can add, look up and react, nothing more, so plan the rest of the work inside Hunter itself. For the same app on other platforms, see the Hunter Make integration and the Hunter n8n integration.
Zapier words, in one minute
Eight terms come back on this page. Plain English first.
- Zap
- The automation itself: one event that starts it, then one or more steps that run every time that event happens again.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Hunter has four: an email read, an email replied, a new campaign and a new lead.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes or sends something. Hunter has two, both of them adding someone.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action that completes successfully. Your plan's quota counts those and nothing else.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, asking the app for anything new. New Campaign works like this on Hunter.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself, the moment the event happens. Email Read, Email Replied and New Lead are instant.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it the rest of the time.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something that already exists, so later steps can use what it found. Hunter offers three of them.
What a Hunter Zap really costs
Zapier bills tasks. Here is how they add up with Hunter.
- Free plan100 tasks a month
- Zap size on free2 steps: one trigger, one action
- Premium appNo
- Instant triggers3 of 4
Triggers cost nothing, and neither does Zapier checking for new campaigns. Each action that succeeds counts as one task; one that fails is not counted. Hunter is not a premium app (the kind Zapier keeps for paid plans), so it runs on the free plan: 100 tasks a month, with Zaps of two steps only, one trigger and one action. A search step or a filter makes the Zap multi-step, and that needs a paid plan. So the classic chain, new lead then verify then add to campaign, is a paid-plan Zap.
Connect your Hunter account to Zapier
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A dialog opens where you type the name of the app you want to link to your Zapier workspace.
- 02
Pick Hunter
Search for Hunter, select it and click Add connection. You need an existing Hunter account, plus access to anything you do not own yourself but want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
A new tab opens on Hunter. Sign in and allow Zapier to use your account. The connection then shows in your list, and every Hunter step of every Zap reuses it.
Your first Hunter Zap: a second campaign for readers
GoalEveryone who opens your first email, and only them, lands in a follow-up campaign.
- 01
Pick the trigger
Create a Zap, choose Hunter and the Email Read event, then select your connection. It is instant, so the Zap will start as each email is opened.
- 02
Test with a real open
Click test: Zapier brings back the three most recent items from your account. Pick a real one so the next steps are mapped on actual data.
- 03
Keep the right campaign
Add a Filter from the plus icon: pick, among the fields your test brought back, the one to look at, then the rule and the value. Rules are typed: a text rule only works on text.
- 04
Add the recipient
Add Create Recipient, pick the follow-up campaign and map the email. Test the step, then Publish. With a filter, this Zap needs a paid plan.
The 4 Hunter triggers
4 events start a Zap when something happens in Hunter, and 3 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Email Read
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an email you sent within the campaign is read.”
Each time someone opens an email you sent from a Hunter campaign, this trigger starts your Zap with that event. It is the earliest signal of interest Hunter hands over and well before a reply, which makes it a natural cue for a second touch.
Email Replied
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an email you sent within the campaigns gets a reply.”
When a prospect answers an email sent within one of your campaigns, this event wakes the Zap up. A reply is the moment a conversation becomes real, which makes this the trigger to hand things over from automation to a person on your team.
New Campaign
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new campaign is available to your account.”
This one notices when a new campaign becomes available on your Hunter account and passes it to the Zap. It suits housekeeping more than prospecting: logging campaigns, alerting a manager, or preparing a tracking sheet whenever a colleague launches something new.
New Lead
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new lead is created.”
Whenever a lead is created in Hunter, by hand or by another Zap, this trigger picks it up. It is the natural entry point for anything that should happen to a contact the moment it joins your base: a check, a notification, an entry in another system.
The 2 Hunter actions
Hunter gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Lead
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a new lead.”
Adds a contact to your Hunter leads from any tool that knows an email address. The only field it insists on is the email itself.
Create Recipient
ActionIn Zapier“Adds a recipient to one of your ongoing campaigns.”
Puts a person into one of your ongoing campaigns, so the sequence starts writing to them. You choose the campaign and give the address.
The 3 Hunter searches
3 search steps look for data that already exists in Hunter, so a later step can use it.
A search step looks something up and hands the result to the next steps. In the editor, Hunter's searches sit at the bottom of the Action event list, under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the answer is not clean.
Count Email
SearchIn Zapier“Counts how many email addresses we have for a domain or a company.”
Tells you how many addresses Hunter knows for a domain or a company, before you spend effort on it.
Find Email
SearchIn Zapier“Generates the most likely email address from a domain name or a company name, a first name and a last name.”
Builds the most likely address for a person from their first name, last name and company or domain. All three are required.
Verify Email
SearchIn Zapier“Checks if a given email address is deliverable and has been found on the Internet.”
Checks one address: whether it can receive mail and whether Hunter has seen it on the web.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left as it is, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap and skips what depended on it. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?This box turns a search into find-or-create. Hunter offers no such variant, so its three searches only ever look.
- If multiple search results are found?Three ways out: keep the first match, which is the default, stop the Zap, or pass every match on at once.
When a Hunter Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Hunter, so the known failure points are the general ones.
Each of them shows up sooner or later on a prospecting Zap. Our Zapier troubleshooting service handles the ones that resist.
Past opens and replies are skipped
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Opens, replies or leads from last week will not be picked up; moving that history is a separate job.New Lead plus Create Lead loops
A Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches sets itself off again and again. Create Lead behind New Lead is the textbook case, and it drains tasks fast.A bulk lead import gets held
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk lead import for example, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back instead of running every item.A campaign shows up once, not twice
On a polling trigger such as New Campaign, Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same campaign does not start the Zap a second time.
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