How to Find Email Addresses from a Website Using Screaming Frog

If you’re looking to find and extract all email addresses from a website‘s code, even if they’re not directly visible on the site, Screaming Frog SEO Spider can be a powerful tool.

While it’s primarily used for SEO audits, it also offers a way to search for and extract specific text patterns, such as email addresses, from a website’s HTML content.

Here’s how you can do it step-by-step. 

1. Configure Custom Extraction for Emails

To extract email addresses, you’ll need to set up a custom extraction using a regex pattern.

1. Click on the “Configuration” menu at the top.
2. Navigate to “Custom” and then select “Custom Extraction”
3. Click the “Add” button to create a new extraction rule.
4. In the “Regex” field, enter the following regex pattern that matches email addresses:

[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}

5. Save and apply the configuration by clicking “OK.”

2. View Extracted Emails

1. After applying the custom extraction configuration, navigate to the “Custom Extraction tab at the top of the Screaming Frog interface.
2. Here, you’ll see a list of URLs along with the actual email addresses that were extracted from those pages.