Capture Data from a list of URL's

[Puppies4life]

Hi guys,

I have a business and I lost my list of email addresses that I had saved, over 30,000.

The only way for me to get those emails again is to manually open every sales record and copy and paste the email address.


I currently have a automator script running that does the following:
1) Opens a text file (the text file has all of the links for the receipts... html://mywebsite.com/orders/1232421)
2) Converts text to url
3) Get Text from Webpage
4) Get email from text
5) and then save the email addresses in a text file.

This takes a really long time (3 minutes for 100 links) because it has to download all of the content from the url.

I wanted to know if there was an action script or something else that I can do in bulk that will be able to get all of this information for me faster.

I really appreciate all of your help with this.
Jonathan.

 

[simonsi]

Assuming you don't have a backup of any kind? (you haven't said where you lost them from so hard to advise further...)

If the email addresses are in a webpage then they exist in a database on the server, you should ask whoever provides the service whether they can extract them for you, it will be much easier.

 

[Puppies4life]

Assuming you don't have a backup of any kind? (you haven't said where you lost them from so hard to advise further...)

If the email addresses are in a webpage then they exist in a database on the server, you should ask whoever provides the service whether they can extract them for you, it will be much easier.

Unfortunately I can't contact the server and for them to pull it off. They already offer the ability to download the data but the email addresses are not available.
I currently have the Automator running and it works but it takes a long time to download all of the web data for each sales receipt. I basically need for it to find the mailto: line and copy the email address.

Any chance to do this?
Thanks.

 

[simonsi]

I'm moving house so I don't have the time to write it for you but there is an automator action to "extract email addresses from web pages" from memory, that should do the trick.