This goes against every fiber of my being, but....

[Modeps]

my boss is looking for some free software that allows the user to put in a bunch of URLs and it will grab the Email and phone numbers off the page...

ugh, just typing that makes me feel slimy. anywho... anyone know of something like that?

 

[Elledan]

A spider-like program thus?

 

[Modeps]

indeed. but not as broad... much narrower.

 

[Alienwho]

You have officially joined the darkside.

 

[Soybomb]

If I find a spam addy harvester program, can I infect it with a virus and send it to him?

 

[DAM]

why does he want this?




dam()

 

[thereds]

repost

 

[Descartes]

Why does it make you feel bad? Could he not do the same thing manually?

So, don't worry about it.

 

[Modeps]

i really dont know, i prefer to keep it that way... im just writing one right now... it probably is better anyways...

~sigh~ my *guess* is its for spam... or , as they like to call it 'email blast'...


please hurt me.

 

[kami]

Lemme guess...you either work for:
-A porn site
-A credit card company
-A "lose 500 pounds in 5 days" type of company

 

[ratkil]

You may want to point him towards the laws on that kind of thing, completely unauthorized spam is technically illegal, at least I think it is still considered such.

 

[pulpp]

i will tell you how to do it, but dont ask me to do it for you

we will need GNU tools, okay if you are running windows, dont whine, just get Gygwin and install it, it will give you GNU on win32

now the actual method,

- you type the urls in a list (text file)

- you feed the list to wget, which will download them

- using a shell script, you pass the downloaded files through grip

- using regular expression you can extract emails and urls from there

- spit the urls/emails into another text file


viola, done...

i dont use linux, but GNU can be sweet

 

[Tauren]

Just make sure to put his home email address in with the rest he harvests!

 

[SofaKingWeTaughtIt]

In the words of the immortal Bill Hicks, "Anyone in marketing, kill yourself!"

 

[jaybert]

yeah, when you start spamming, make sure to put in both his personal and work email addresses. Please tell us what company you work for so I know never to buy any sort of products from you all for using such underhanded tactics to try and recruit customers. Thanks!

 

[Anghang]

hehe...i smell spam...

 

[Bosec]

Ack the darkside is getting stronger.

Have to agree let the spam fly