Email Id Extractor Project from sites in Scrapy Python
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15 Jul, 2025
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Scrapy is open-source web-crawling framework written in Python used for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data for general-purpose. First all sub pages links are taken from the main page and then email id are scraped from these sub pages using regular expression.
This article shows the email id extraction from geeksforgeeks site as a reference.
Email ids to be scraped from geeksforgeeks site - ['feedback@geeksforgeeks.org', 'classes@geeksforgeeks.org', 'complaints@geeksforgeeks.org','review-team@geeksforgeeks.org']
How to create Email ID Extractor Project using Scrapy?
1. Installation of packages - run following command from terminal
pip install scrapy pip install scrapy-selenium
2. Create project -
scrapy startproject projectname (Here projectname is geeksemailtrack) cd projectname scrapy genspider spidername (Here spidername is emails)
3) Add code in settings.py file to use scrapy-selenium
from shutil import which
SELENIUM_DRIVER_NAME = 'chrome'
SELENIUM_DRIVER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = which('chromedriver')
SELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=[]
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
'scrapy_selenium.SeleniumMiddleware': 800
}
4) Now download chrome driver for your chrome and put it near to your chrome scrapy.cfg file. To download chrome driver refer this site - To download chrome driver.
Directory structure -
Step by Step Code -
1. Import all required libraries -
# web scraping framework
import scrapy
# for regular expression
import re
# for selenium request
from scrapy_selenium import SeleniumRequest
# for link extraction
from scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractor
2. Create start_requests function to hit the site from selenium. You can add your own URL.
def start_requests(self):
yield SeleniumRequest(
url="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/",
wait_time=3,
screenshot=True,
callback=self.parse,
dont_filter=True
)
3. Create parse function:
def parse(self, response):
# this helps to get all links from source code
links = LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=()).extract_links(response)
# Finallinks contains links url
Finallinks = [str(link.url) for link in links]
# links list for url that may have email ids
links = []
# filtering and storing only needed url in links list
# pages that are about us and contact us are the ones that have email ids
for link in Finallinks:
if ('Contact' in link or 'contact' in link or 'About' in link or 'about' in link or 'CONTACT' in link or 'ABOUT' in link):
links.append(link)
# current page url also added because few sites have email ids on there main page
links.append(str(response.url))
# parse_link function is called for extracting email ids
l = links[0]
links.pop(0)
# meta helps to transfer links list from parse to parse_link
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=l,
wait_time=3,
screenshot=True,
callback=self.parse_link,
dont_filter=True,
meta={'links': links}
)
Explanation of parse function -
- In the following lines all links are extracted from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ response.
links = LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=()).extract_links(response) Finallinks = [str(link.url) for link in links]
- Finallinks is list containing all links.
- To avoid unnecessary links we put filter that, if links belong to contact and about page then only we scrape details from that page.
for link in Finallinks:
if ('Contact' in link or 'contact' in link or 'About' in link or 'about' in link or
or 'CONTACT' in link or 'ABOUT' in
link):
links.append(link) - This Above filter is not necessary but sites do have lots of tags(links) and due to this, if site has 50 subpages in site then it will extract email from these 50 sub URLs. it is assumed that emails are mostly on home page, contact page, and about page so this filter help to reduce time wastage of scraping those URL that might not have email ids.
- The links of pages that may have email ids are requested one by one and email ids are scraped using regular expression.
4. Create parse_link function code:
def parse_link(self, response):
# response.meta['links'] this helps to get links list
links = response.meta['links']
flag = 0
# links that contains following bad words are discarded
bad_words = ['facebook', 'instagram', 'youtube', 'twitter', 'wiki', 'linkedin']
for word in bad_words:
# if any bad word is found in the current page url
# flag is assigned to 1
if word in str(response.url):
flag = 1
break
# if flag is 1 then no need to get email from
# that url/page
if (flag != 1):
html_text = str(response.text)
# regular expression used for email id
email_list = re.findall('\w+@\w+\.{1}\w+', html_text)
# set of email_list to get unique
email_list = set(email_list)
if (len(email_list) != 0):
for i in email_list:
# adding email ids to final uniqueemail
self.uniqueemail.add(i)
# parse_link function is called till
# if condition satisfy
# else move to parsed function
if (len(links) > 0):
l = links[0]
links.pop(0)
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=l,
callback=self.parse_link,
dont_filter=True,
meta={'links': links}
)
else:
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=response.url,
callback=self.parsed,
dont_filter=True
)
def parse_link(self, response): # response.meta['links'] this helps to get links list links = response.meta['links'] flag = 0 # links that contains following bad words are discarded bad_words = ['facebook', 'instagram', 'youtube', 'twitter', 'wiki', 'linkedin'] for word in bad_words: # if any bad word is found in the current page url # flag is assigned to 1 if word in str(response.url): flag = 1 break # if flag is 1 then no need to get email from # that url/page if (flag != 1): html_text = str(response.text) # regular expression used for email id email_list = re.findall('\w+@\w+\.{1}\w+', html_text) # set of email_list to get unique email_list = set(email_list) if (len(email_list) != 0): for i in email_list: # adding email ids to final uniqueemail self.uniqueemail.add(i) # parse_link function is called till # if condition satisfy # else move to parsed function if (len(links) > 0): l = links[0] links.pop(0) yield SeleniumRequest( url=l, callback=self.parse_link, dont_filter=True, meta={'links': links} ) else: yield SeleniumRequest( url=response.url, callback=self.parsed, dont_filter=True )Explanation of parse_link function:
By response.text we get the all source code of the requested URL. The regex expression ‘\w+@\w+\.{1}\w+’ used here could be translated to something like this Look for every piece of string that starts with one or more letters, followed by an at sign (‘@’), followed by one or more letters with a dot in the end.
After that it should have one or more letters again. Its a regex used for getting email id.
5. Create parsed function -
def parsed(self, response):
# emails list of uniqueemail set
emails = list(self.uniqueemail)
finalemail = []
for email in emails:
# avoid garbage value by using '.in' and '.com'
# and append email ids to finalemail
if ('.in' in email or '.com' in email or 'info' in email or 'org' in email):
finalemail.append(email)
# final unique email ids from geeksforgeeks site
print('\n'*2)
print("Emails scraped", finalemail)
print('\n'*2)
def parsed(self, response): # emails list of uniqueemail set emails = list(self.uniqueemail) finalemail = [] for email in emails: # avoid garbage value by using '.in' and '.com' # and append email ids to finalemail if ('.in' in email or '.com' in email or 'info' in email or 'org' in email): finalemail.append(email) # final unique email ids from geeksforgeeks site print('\n'*2) print("Emails scraped", finalemail) print('\n'*2)Explanation of Parsed function:
The above regex expression also leads to garbage values like select@1.13 in this scraping email id from geeksforgeeks, we know select@1.13 is not a email id. The parsed function filter applies filter that only takes emails containing '.com' and ".in".
Run the spider using following command -
scrapy crawl spidername (spidername is name of spider)
Garbage value in scraped emails:
Final scraped emails:
# web scraping framework
import scrapy
# for regular expression
import re
# for selenium request
from scrapy_selenium import SeleniumRequest
# for link extraction
from scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractor
class EmailtrackSpider(scrapy.Spider):
# name of spider
name = 'emailtrack'
# to have unique email ids
uniqueemail = set()
# start_requests sends request to given https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
# and parse function is called
def start_requests(self):
yield SeleniumRequest(
url="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/",
wait_time=3,
screenshot=True,
callback=self.parse,
dont_filter=True
)
def parse(self, response):
# this helps to get all links from source code
links = LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=()).extract_links(response)
# Finallinks contains links url
Finallinks = [str(link.url) for link in links]
# links list for url that may have email ids
links = []
# filtering and storing only needed url in links list
# pages that are about us and contact us are the ones that have email ids
for link in Finallinks:
if ('Contact' in link or 'contact' in link or 'About' in link or 'about' in link or 'CONTACT' in link or 'ABOUT' in link):
links.append(link)
# current page url also added because few sites have email ids on there main page
links.append(str(response.url))
# parse_link function is called for extracting email ids
l = links[0]
links.pop(0)
# meta helps to transfer links list from parse to parse_link
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=l,
wait_time=3,
screenshot=True,
callback=self.parse_link,
dont_filter=True,
meta={'links': links}
)
def parse_link(self, response):
# response.meta['links'] this helps to get links list
links = response.meta['links']
flag = 0
# links that contains following bad words are discarded
bad_words = ['facebook', 'instagram', 'youtube', 'twitter', 'wiki', 'linkedin']
for word in bad_words:
# if any bad word is found in the current page url
# flag is assigned to 1
if word in str(response.url):
flag = 1
break
# if flag is 1 then no need to get email from
# that url/page
if (flag != 1):
html_text = str(response.text)
# regular expression used for email id
email_list = re.findall('\w+@\w+\.{1}\w+', html_text)
# set of email_list to get unique
email_list = set(email_list)
if (len(email_list) != 0):
for i in email_list:
# adding email ids to final uniqueemail
self.uniqueemail.add(i)
# parse_link function is called till
# if condition satisfy
# else move to parsed function
if (len(links) > 0):
l = links[0]
links.pop(0)
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=l,
callback=self.parse_link,
dont_filter=True,
meta={'links': links}
)
else:
yield SeleniumRequest(
url=response.url,
callback=self.parsed,
dont_filter=True
)
def parsed(self, response):
# emails list of uniqueemail set
emails = list(self.uniqueemail)
finalemail = []
for email in emails:
# avoid garbage value by using '.in' and '.com'
# and append email ids to finalemail
if ('.in' in email or '.com' in email or 'info' in email or 'org' in email):
finalemail.append(email)
# final unique email ids from geeksforgeeks site
print('\n'*2)
print("Emails scraped", finalemail)
print('\n'*2)
# web scraping frameworkimport scrapy# for regular expressionimport re# for selenium requestfrom scrapy_selenium import SeleniumRequest# for link extractionfrom scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractorclass EmailtrackSpider(scrapy.Spider): # name of spider name = 'emailtrack' # to have unique email ids uniqueemail = set() # start_requests sends request to given https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ # and parse function is called def start_requests(self): yield SeleniumRequest( url="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/", wait_time=3, screenshot=True, callback=self.parse, dont_filter=True ) def parse(self, response): # this helps to get all links from source code links = LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=()).extract_links(response) # Finallinks contains links url Finallinks = [str(link.url) for link in links] # links list for url that may have email ids links = [] # filtering and storing only needed url in links list # pages that are about us and contact us are the ones that have email ids for link in Finallinks: if ('Contact' in link or 'contact' in link or 'About' in link or 'about' in link or 'CONTACT' in link or 'ABOUT' in link): links.append(link) # current page url also added because few sites have email ids on there main page links.append(str(response.url)) # parse_link function is called for extracting email ids l = links[0] links.pop(0) # meta helps to transfer links list from parse to parse_link yield SeleniumRequest( url=l, wait_time=3, screenshot=True, callback=self.parse_link, dont_filter=True, meta={'links': links} ) def parse_link(self, response): # response.meta['links'] this helps to get links list links = response.meta['links'] flag = 0 # links that contains following bad words are discarded bad_words = ['facebook', 'instagram', 'youtube', 'twitter', 'wiki', 'linkedin'] for word in bad_words: # if any bad word is found in the current page url # flag is assigned to 1 if word in str(response.url): flag = 1 break # if flag is 1 then no need to get email from # that url/page if (flag != 1): html_text = str(response.text) # regular expression used for email id email_list = re.findall('\w+@\w+\.{1}\w+', html_text) # set of email_list to get unique email_list = set(email_list) if (len(email_list) != 0): for i in email_list: # adding email ids to final uniqueemail self.uniqueemail.add(i) # parse_link function is called till # if condition satisfy # else move to parsed function if (len(links) > 0): l = links[0] links.pop(0) yield SeleniumRequest( url=l, callback=self.parse_link, dont_filter=True, meta={'links': links} ) else: yield SeleniumRequest( url=response.url, callback=self.parsed, dont_filter=True ) def parsed(self, response): # emails list of uniqueemail set emails = list(self.uniqueemail) finalemail = [] for email in emails: # avoid garbage value by using '.in' and '.com' # and append email ids to finalemail if ('.in' in email or '.com' in email or 'info' in email or 'org' in email): finalemail.append(email) # final unique email ids from geeksforgeeks site print('\n'*2) print("Emails scraped", finalemail) print('\n'*2)Working video of above code -
Reference - linkextractors
