Email Extractor

How the email extractor finds addresses

This email extractor scans your text for anything shaped like an email address: a local part, an @ sign and a domain with a real extension. It understands international characters, plus addressing (name+tag@gmail.com), subdomains and long modern extensions like .photography. Trailing punctuation from sentences is trimmed, and mailto: prefixes from HTML links are removed.

Many sites hide addresses from spam bots by writing them as name [at] example [dot] com, name (at) example (dot) com, name@example.com or name%40example.com. With Decode [at] [dot] ticked, the extractor turns those back into normal addresses before it searches.

It also ignores image file names that look like emails, such as logo@2x.png, which often appear in HTML source.

Turn messy text into a clean email list

The Domains table counts addresses per domain, which quickly shows whether a list is mostly free mail providers or company addresses.

When to use an email extractor

• Cleaning exports: pull addresses out of a messy CRM export, a form plugin dump or a mailbox export.
• Reply threads: collect every participant from a long email thread or a meeting invite.
• Event lists: extract registrations from a pasted spreadsheet or document.
• Your own website: check which email addresses are exposed on your pages, and therefore visible to spam harvesters.
• Research: gather published business contact addresses from directories and contact pages.

Use extracted emails responsibly

Having an email address does not mean you have permission to email it. Data protection and anti-spam laws such as GDPR in Europe, CAN-SPAM in the United States and PDPA laws in many Asian countries require consent or a legitimate reason for marketing email, and an easy way to unsubscribe. Sending unsolicited bulk email also damages your domain's sender reputation.

Before you send, check that the addresses can receive mail with the email validator, which catches typos, disposable providers and dead domains. To merge several lists, use Remove Duplicate Lines. To pull links instead of emails from the same text, use the URL extractor.

Your text is processed in your browser only. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

Email extractor examples

A typical paste mixes real addresses with noise. For example:

Contact Sales <sales@Example.com>, support [at] example [dot] com
John: john.smith+news@gmail.com. Old: JOHN.SMITH+news@gmail.com
<img src="logo@2x.png"> Write to us: mailto:hello@example.lk

With the default options the result is:

sales@example.com
support@example.com
john.smith+news@gmail.com
hello@example.lk

The angle brackets and display name around the first address were ignored, the obfuscated address was decoded, the duplicate in capitals was removed because addresses are compared without case, the image file name was skipped and the mailto: prefix was stripped. Tick Exclude role addresses and sales@, support@ and hello@ disappear, leaving only the personal address.

Note that the part before the @ is technically case-sensitive under the email standard, although almost every provider ignores case in practice. If you work with an unusual system that treats John@ and john@ as different mailboxes, untick Lowercase and Remove duplicates to keep the original spelling of every address.

Email Extractor: frequently asked questions