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 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