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..
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17 responses to “Google Valid Email Search”
that’s just great. google, please consider hiding our e-mail addresses?!
LOL.
That’s what you get for contributing to free software!!
LOL.
The time of hiding email addresses is over – the time of filtering spam has come. Just accept it.
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 ..
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).
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.
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google, bet ur getting a lot of nigerian traffic right now 🙂
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’?
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…
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
@ haha
‘google, bet ur getting a lot of nigerian traffic right now ‘
very funny!
Nice idea None but I think it works better, should one be into the harvesting game, to just use known email address hosting companies in the google search term–
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=@gmail&sbtn=Search
That one gives you 638,000 responses. The same can be done for @yahoo and @aol and @hotmail, etc.
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hey- i just want a name to go along with an email address i found in my address book just now. it’s odd. ive never seen it before. where can i get a real email look up that’s correct and free? what about on my computer? i tried google desk top search but it gave nothing to say there was anything from my pc with the email address attached going out. as you can see i’m not educated in computers. I just don’t have that kind of time to devote to it. so i ask for your help. thank you so much, CA computer dunce.
Hello i dont underst the whole stuff here, maybe its because the link to the shell script is not working
any help