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 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

Commercial Email Extraction Software

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.

 The Fast Email extractor from Lencom builds a Bulk Email list by searching the web for web sites that match your search criteria and extracting contact email addresses from them.

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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