Email Scraper
Dec 2016
Technologies:
- javascript
What?
Given a query or a spreadsheet of queries returns possible email addresses. The tool works by googling for the given query, opening the first 10 results and scraping the web pages for email addresses.
Why?
While building an outbound B2B email marketing campaign I needed to find email addresses for a list of leads. Instead of googling each individual query I decided to automate the process. As this is a common use case I decided to automate the process.
How?
The scraper runs on AWS EC2 as a docker container with a nodeJS backend written with ES6+ syntax. The backend makes requests to google and sub pages in parallel and updates the progress of the query using websockets to the frontend.