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Finding contact emails that actually exist
Pattern-guessing gets you bounces. Here is the order we look in, and what we throw away.
There are two ways to put an email on a lead. You can guess it from a name and a domain, or you can find one the business published. We only do the second.
The order we look
- The business email on the Instagram profile — published deliberately, by the owner.
- An address written into the bio.
- The linked website: mailto links first, then the page text, then up to three contact or about pages.
What gets thrown away
Scraping a page for anything shaped like an email collects a lot of rubbish: theme author addresses, Sentry keys, placeholder domains, and a long tail of typo domains like gmai. and gmial. Those are filtered out before a lead is saved, along with no-reply addresses that nobody reads.
Why entity decoding matters
Plenty of sites obfuscate addresses as HTML entities, sometimes doubly encoded, specifically to defeat scrapers. Decoding those is the difference between a contactable German lead and an empty column.
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