an email harvesting tutorial

a little bit of a preface might be required for this. I'm in no way condoning or supporting spamming. I found myself in a situation recently though, where I had a long list of URLs that I needed to get contact information for. it's extremely hard to find information (or an application designed to do this) is next to impossible.

but I'm not talking about on a massive scale. I feel I can give this out without much of a problem because it's simply not going to be of much use to someone trying to use it on a massive scale, at all. if you're spamming, I'm sure you've got much more sophisticated software available to you.

that being said: if you have a list of URLs you need to get contact info for and don't look forward to searching each individual site, you might find this helpful.

you'll need arelis, microsoft excel and, well, something to email with.

control-c the list of urls. open arelis, open a new project, and go to project -> import manager. make sure "import list of manually entered urls" is ticked and hit next. paste the urls here, and hit next. go through the next two screens (your selections don't really matter much). now sit and let arelis crawl for the contact info. you can increase the number of connections to 16 if you're not very patient. next go to project -> export manager. tick only "domain" and "contact."

save the file, and then open it with excel. you can sort the data by the contact info, and the urls that already have contact info will be seperated from those that don't. all that's left is to email 'em.