E-mail Extractor (Miscellaneous)

E-Mail Extractor is a web spider (PHP script) which crawls through the web and extracts e-mail addresses from webpages. You just have to enter start webpage URL, select crawling mode, set maximum number of URLs to crawl and launch a spider. It will walk around the web and collect e-mail addresses.

Features

• Start webpage URL: spider starts working with this page.
• 2 crawling modes: same domain URLs only and all URLs.
• Maximum number of URLs: spider can crawl limited and unlimited number of URLs.
• Crawling statistics: list of URLs, e-mails and error log.
• AJAX-ed interface: modern jQuery-driven interface.
• Clean code: clean PHP and JavaScript code can be used for study purposes.
• CURL and fsockopen supported: spider can work through either fsockopen or CURL.
• Easy terminarion and resumption: close browser to stop the spider, open resumption URL to continue crawling.
• Easy to install: edit inc/config.php.

Limitations

• Spider doesn’t extract e-mails from images.
• Spider doesn’t extract e-mails from password protected area of websites.
• Some websites may block spiders.
• Make sure that using spiders is not against of your hosting provider TOS/TAC.

Requirements

• PHP version 5.0 or greater
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Installation

Let’s imagine that you have website http://www.website.com/ and you want to install script there.

1. Create folder email-extractor (use any other name) in root of your domain. Once created it can be reached by URL: http://www.website.com/email-extractor/
2. Make sure that folder email-extractor has permissions 0755; index.php and ajax.php have permissions 0644.
3. Edit inc/config.php and set MySQL database parameters.

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