Email Scraper Tool 📧

A Python-based tool that scrapes websites to collect email addresses. Given a starting URL, this tool will recursively follow links found on the page and extract email addresses from all visited pages.

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Features ✨

• Recursive scraping: Follows links on the web pages to visit multiple pages for a thorough search.
• Email extraction: Uses regular expressions to find and collect email addresses.
• Easy to use: Just enter a URL, and the tool will start scraping.

Requirements 🛠️

• python 3.x
• requests – For making HTTP requests.
• beautifulsoup4 – For parsing and navigating HTML.
• lxml – An XML/HTML parser for BeautifulSoup.

Installation Guide 📝

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/AdrianTomin/email-scraper.git
cd email-scraper

2. Set up a virtual environment (optional but recommended):

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  

On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies:

The required libraries are listed in requirements.txt. You can install them using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you don't have the requirements.txt file yet, you can generate it as follows:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

4. Run the tool:

After installing the dependencies, you can run the tool by executing the following command:

python email_scraper.py

Example Output 🖥️

[+] Enter url to scan: https://example.com
[1] Processing https://example.com
[2] Processing https://example.com/contact
Found emails:
info@example.com
support@example.com

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Authors

• @AdrianTomin