Gmail address extraction

Question

I would like to extract all e-mail addresses from my Gmail account, and extract them from the messages where some search term is satisfied. I don't only want to extract addresses from to: and from: fields, but from the email’s body as well.

Answer 1

Free web site (accepting donations):

Vallery.net
This application will connect to Gmail and extract all of the email addresses.
* look at every single message stored in your Gmail account
* extract all of the email addresses in the from, to, cc, bcc, reply-to, and sender headers
* create a csv file that can be imported into many common sites

Commercial software:

Gmail Extract Email Addresses Software 7.0

Extract email addresses from your Gmail email account. Save results as text files. You decide which emails to extract email data from. Extract from body or header of email message. Extract from multiple emails.

GMail Extract e-mail addresses from G-Mail Account 9

If you have a G-Mail account, and want to create a newsletter to which you can send a bunch of e-mails at once, instead of having to sort through individual e-mail addresses, then this software is for you! With this software, you can easily: Extract e-mail addresses from your g-mail account(s). You can select which standard mailboxes you want to search/extract e-mails from You can then save the resulting list to a textfile, having quickly download.

EDIT:

Email Extractor - web email addresses harvester
This is shareware. See this video for an example.

Atomic Email Hunter is an email extractor designed to harvest e-mail addresses and user names from the web sites you define (or those found basing on keywords) and using http and https protocols.

Note: I haven't tried any of them (not using gmail, sorry).

Answer 2

i dont know an easier way:

1. download all your emails
2. write a small program that searches in every email for email adresses (regex)

Answer 3

Well, first of all, though the IMAP or POP3 functionality of GMail, you can access all your emails to analyse them on your local system. Outlook would be able to use both techniques. But to extract email addresses from any message in your mailbox, you would need some more specialized software. Problem is, such software is popular by bulk emailers to collect existing email addresses. Thus, anyone who would create such an application could end up belong accused of creating software to support spammers and bulk emailers.

So, first of all, what are your intentions? What are you planning to do with this information?

Then, while it would require special tools to collect this information, it's not too difficult to write such software yourself. I wrote something similar myself, in an anti-spam attempt to collect information about spammers. It's not that difficult and with simple regular expressions it's even quite simple.

Of course, there are probably several such tools available on the Internet. But be aware about the reasons someone would create such a tool! A website, for example, that would offer such functionality could also be harvesting email addresses for spammers. Other tools might also misuse an internet connection to send harvested email addresses to the creator of this tool, allowing spammers to build enormous lists of confirmed email addresses.

One thing is sure, though. If I knew I was sending emails to someone who would collect them for any purpose, I would blacklist that person for my regular accounts and only communicate with them with a throw-away account just to make sure I won't be bothered too much by spam.

Answer 4

Just an addition to hayymc's list. http://www.gmailextractor.com Unlike other services you dont need to give your password to any third party and you will be logging-in to Gmail account through Google. gmailextractor.com will only extract Email addresses in "From" field and also the Sender's Name if available in the mail header.