Extract Email Addresses

Using email extraction software it is possible to extract email address from web pages, text files and emails themselves, in order to build mailing lists. Here we look at email extraction and the tools used.

Extract Addresses From Web Pages

To easily extract email addresses from Web Pages you require some form of email address extraction software. Unfortunately some people use Email address extraction software to extract email addresses from websites for the the purpose of spam- so called email address harvesting.

There are, however, many legitimate reasons to use email address extractor software like the free email extractor Lite 1.4 script or the commercial level email extractor software below.

Email Extractor Lite

Email Extractor Lite is a free email extractor script for extracting email addresses from text documents usually web pages. If you are still using email extractor Lite 1.4 or 1.5 you can view the version history and download the latest version- email extractor Lite 1.6.1 at surf7.net.

(Note: It has now been upgraded and version 1.8 is available here.)

Email Extractor Lite allows you to extract email addresses from any text by simply copying and pasting between windows. Email Extractor Lite Features:

Extract emails addresses without repeating the same email
Display total extracted email addresses
Select different separator for each email (or enter your own);
Group emails by number specified by you. Each group is separated by new line;
Sort emails alphabetically;
Extract or exclude email containing only certain string;
Extract web addresses instead of email addresses

See export hotmail contacts for an example of using email extractor Lite to extract hotmail addresses.

Commercial Email Extraction Software

Email extractor Lite is a very simple script that can be used for extracting email addresses from text pages. It is suitable for use with a small number of web pages but if you require to extract addresses from several hundred web pages then you need commercial level extraction software that provide automation.

Here are some commercial level email extractor tools and web sites for you to consider.

Email Extractor:
Extract specific information from the web. A powerful web data / link extractor utility.

Bulk Email Marketing Software
The software products for Bulk Email Marketing

Bulk Email Marketing:
All about targeted bulk email marketing software.

Hiding Email Addresses from Extraction Software

If you are a webmaster receiving lots of spam to your website email addresses then you may wish to hide your email address from extraction software.

Extract Email Addresses from Mailboxes and Text files

Email address extraction software is also used to extract email address from email in your mailbox and text files on your PC . The extracted email addresses can then be used to produce mailing lists.

Two companies offering this type of software are:

Mazepath and Maxprog

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Extract Email Addresses