A Quick Python Script to Extract Emails From a Web Page
A Quick Python Script to Extract Emails From a Web Page Sometimes you land on a website and think: I know there’s a contact email here somewhere… but it’s buried in a footer, hidden on an “About” page, or lost in a long block of text. If you do research, vendor reviews, outreach, or you’re just trying to save time, copying and pasting around a page gets old fast. This short Python script automates that step. You give it a URL, it downloads the page, pulls out the readable text, then returns any email addresses it finds. What the script does At a high level, it does four things: Fetches the page using requests Parses the HTML and extracts visible body text using selectolax Searches for email patterns with a regular expression (regex) Removes duplicates so you get a clean list of unique results The output is a simple list like: ['info@company.com', 'support@company.com'] Why this is useful This is a small script, but it solves a...