Find Hidden Emails on Any Website — The Automated Lead Gen Approach

Most websites hide their email addresses. But they're always somewhere in the HTML — in mailto links, contact pages, footer text, or team pages. Here's how to find them automatically. Where Emails Hide mailto: links — highest confidence, verified by the site owner Contact/About/Team pages — usually contains multiple emails Footer — often has a general contact email JavaScript — sometimes emails are loaded dynamically Obfuscated text — user [at] domain [dot] com patterns The Automated Approach A crawler that: Fetches the homepage Finds internal links (prioritizes /contact, /about, /team) Crawls 2-3 levels deep Extracts emails via regex + mailto: detection Deduplicates and filters junk (noreply, test domains) What You Get { "email" : "sales@company.com" , "source" : "https://company.com/contact" , "domain" : "company.com" , "fromMailto" : true , "phones" : [ "+1 555-123-4567" ], "socialLinks" : [ { "platform" : "linkedin" , "url" : "https://linkedin.com/company/..." } ] } The Lead Gen Pi