Email Scraping Tools

[harryboon]

OK simple question - Which tool/software is the best? I have been trying 1 or 2 out but does anyone know of a really good one?

Many Thanks

 

[lucyrussell]

Try Web Content Grabber I think it's the best!

 

[seo next]

Answer would depend on how you want to use it... Do you want to extract all emails from a site or group of sites (which you specify) or do you want to extract emails by your bot searching google for different keywords and going on sites ranking for those keywords ?

 

[Ali-v-8]

can write you one if you want customised to search what you want.

 

[harryboon]

I basically want to get all the email addresses from a few site - I have been using atomic email hunter (free version).

It seems ok it scraps emails from the sites and also from keywords etc.

Any other ideas?

 

[RhysLucas]

Great screencast. It's kind of sad that not more people are aware of the power of services like Dapper, which IMO, can really really increase their productivity.

 

[Dawg]

Is it ethical to torrent Web Content Grabber?

 

[bdw]

Personally I cannot believe that people are happy to discuss spamming tactics like this publicly.

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[edmondscommerce]

Yeah I'm also surprised

 

[ecenica]

There's a very good chance using these types of tools will get the user flagged as a spammer and blacklisted.

Really not worth the time or money.

^RM.

 

[bdw]

There's a very good chance using these types of tools will get the user flagged as a spammer and blacklisted.

And so they should be because they are spammers.

 

[harryboon]

I am not using it for spamming lol we want to use it for a collection of sites we run to help us collect data etc

I hate spam more than most people

 

[FreelanceSoftwareDeveloper]

I was suprised at the response considering in a similar content scraping thread the other day where the guy wanted a partner to help develop it he got absolutely flamed.

 

[Ali-v-8]

Just to clarify "scrapper tools" are only prehistoric spiders

 

[edmondscommerce]

how do you work that out?

whats the difference between a scraper and a spider, really?

 

[DesignerNick]

Scrapebox will do this, it isn't free though!

 

[Dawg]

Wget might fit the bill

 

[bdw]

Harryboon your title for the thread is

Email Scraping Tools

Can you explain why you need it to collect data for websites that you run?

 

[edmondscommerce]

One thing I will say about scraping email addresses is that if you can scrape them, so can the other crowd of email harvesters so there is a very high chance that the person you will email is already receiving lots and lots of other emails.

This is one reason why I never post email addresses on the web.

 

[DesignerNick]

This is one reason why I never post email addresses on the web.

Best advice in the thread

 

[harryboon]

Can you explain why you need it to collect data for websites that you run?

Yes bdw - we have recently acquired a couple of sites, however there is an issue with some of the software so it was suggested that a tool like a scraper could help us access some of the old email addresses within the site fast than we could do it, that's all, I am not interested in spamming anyone lol

However I am not sure a scraper will help anyway ha ha

 

[bdw]

I am afraid I still don't understand. Why would you need scraper software to find an email address on a website that you own? Can't you just do a site search for the "@" symbol or something?

 

[DesignerNick]

If you give me the address I will do it for you and send you a list of e-mails