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Email Extraction

Create a new Extraction Job by pressing "Extract E-Mails" button on the top toolbar.

This will open a window where you specify search parameters.

Extraction parameters window

Search Engines
This will search web-pages that match your search keyword(s) in the selected search engine and extract e-mail addresses from these pages.

For a simple search, just select a search engine (google.com will be most efficient), enter a keyword (phrase) and press "OK". For more advanced searches, please refer to the paragraphs below. 

- Search Engine: specifies a search engine that you will use for extracting e-mail addresses.
- Keyword(s): specifies a keyword (key phrase). Extracted e-mail addresses will be relevant to this keyword (key phrase).
- Extract only URLs, skip e-mails: if you check this, E-Mail Seeker will only search for URLs. This may help you to pre-evaluate your keyword(s) and see how many pages would be found/processed. Works much faster compared to full e-mail search.
- E-Mail mask:
If you decide to use an E-Mail mask, type a mask and click "Add" to add it to the list. The following options are available for E-Mail mask:

  * Off: switches off the mask. All relevant e-mail addresses will be extracted.

  * Positive: if you specify one or more Positive E-Mail masks, E-Mail Seeker will only find those e-mail addresses that match the specified mask(s). In most cases the mask is a top-level domain name (e.g. ".nl", ".co.uk"). For example, if you specify ".co.uk" mask, E-Mail Seeker will only find addresses like john@mail.co.uk, peter@company.co.uk, and so on. If you specify "@hotmail.com" E-Mail mask, E-Mail Seeker will only find Hotmail addresses - like address1@hotmail.com, address2@hotmail.com and so on.  Using this option is most likely to slow down the search.

  * Negative: works the same as positive, but, in opposite, excludes all e-mail addresses that match the mask(s). E.g. if you specify ".org, .gov, .edu (to enter the three masks, you have to add them to the list one by one)" as your masks, E-Mail Seeker will not extract e-mail addresses like john@institution.org, peter@municipality.gov, mark@university.edu and so on.

Press "OK" after you're ready. E-Mail Seeker will start looking for E-Mail addresses relevant to your keyword (key phrase). The status screen will provide you with progress information.

You can pause the Seek Job and continue it later at any time by selecting the Seek Job from the list in the main window and pressing "Resume Seek Job" button on the top toolbar.

Websites: Allows you to specify one or more websites and lets E-Mail Seeker process all pages on this site(s) and extract e-mail addresses.

Search name: Name of the search that will appear in the list. Allows you to give every list its own name for easier work with e-mail lists.

Website: URL of a website that you'd like to search. When you entered a URL, you can press the "Add button" and add another one, until you've added all sites.
URL must be entered in the following format: http://www.thesite.com/ (please note the closing slash).

Local files
Allows you to search files on your local PC for e-mail addresses.
Directory: specifies which directory you want to scan
Filename: specifies file masks that you would like to use. Eg. you may set a positive mask ".doc" to only scan Word files or you may set a negative mask ".htm" to process all but HTML files.
Standard files that do not contain e-mails (such as program files, images and so on) are never processed, regardless of whether you use any file masks.

Batch file
Allows you to perform search sequences by processing batch files. You can specify many search engines, keywords and other options within one file. A batch file must be plain TEXT file formatted as in the example below:

[start]
[positive masks]=".com" ".net" ".org"
[negative masks]=""
[engines]="www.google.com" "www.altavista.com"
[keywords]="travel" "hotels" "tourism"
[end]

[start]
[positive masks]=""
[negative masks]=""
[engines]="www.google.com" "www.altavista.com"
[keywords]="tickets" "agency"
[end]
...

E-Mail Seeker will process batch files in blocks (enclosed with [start] and [end] tags). Within one block, E-Mail Seeker will run separate searches for every engine and every keyword.

You can load/save batch files from this section too.

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