Google Valid Email Search
You are probably aware of the Google Code Search. It’s a very neat tool.
How hard is it to parse the 1000’s of valid emails appearing in the source code file ?
Do a code search for < .*@.*\..*>
Then use this shell script (Stupid wordpress do some funky escaping stuff with my html..)
Rinse and Repeat with page 2 of 4150000..
October 6th, 2006 at 1:01
that’s just great. google, please consider hiding our e-mail addresses?!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:02
LOL.
That’s what you get for contributing to free software!!
LOL.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:07
The time of hiding email addresses is over - the time of filtering spam has come. Just accept it.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:09
As soon as there’s a publicly accessible (webbased) repository browser, it’ll be found by email harvesters anyway. That’s why, when committing code, you should apply some obfuscation to your emailaddress ..
October 6th, 2006 at 12:12
Just search in google:
* AT * DOT *
and get aprox 69.600.000 results XDDD
Then just replace /\s*AT\s*/@/ig /\s*DOT\s*/./ig /\s*SLASH\s*/@/ig /NOSPAM//ig /REMOVETHIS//ig …
You can also search other variations of the same trick, like using (AT) (DOT).
October 6th, 2006 at 15:15
I agree with Steven Barr. They already have our addresses, so this is nothing new.
However, if someone can dump the e-mails we could generate lots of meaningful statistics about the FOSS community: how many unique contributors, how many contributors per project, what organizations devote the most employees toward FOSS, etc.
I don’t know… maybe the statistics aren’t that cool, but it seems interesting to me.
October 6th, 2006 at 16:16
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October 7th, 2006 at 6:06
[...] Find a whole lot of valid email addresses: http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-10-06/google-valid-email-search [...]
October 7th, 2006 at 18:18
google, bet ur getting a lot of nigerian traffic right now
April 6th, 2008 at 6:06
Ok, so I’ve entered your string in 3 times in the google search and it doesn’t match any results. The first part works to get you to the code search. Am I doing something wrong here, or is it in need of a fixin’?
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:10
Jathrop try opening this link:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%3C.*%40.*%5C..*%3E&btnG=Search
this is the google CODE search he is talking about.
You have to look closer next time…
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:10
But I have a better idea (sorry for spammming)
Instead of using search like yours (generating 21million results), You can simply remove the last character of your search “>” and generate 48 million. That is almost double. here is a text copy and paste it to see the difference
Your Method:
google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%3C*%40.*%5C..*%3E&sbtn=Search
My Method:
google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%3C*%40.*%5C..*&sbtn=Search