A command line web scraper for email addresses powered by Casperjs, an extension of Phantomjs.
Friendly Ghost relies on Casperjs and Phantomjs.
The best way to install these is through npm (node package manager) via the terminal. The -g flag makes them accessible system-wide.
sudo npm install -g phantomjs && sudo npm -g install casperjs
Other installation options include homebrew and macports.
Check that the dependencies have installed by entering which phantomjs and which casperjs, which will tell you the locations of each binary.
Once you've downloaded casper and phantom, clone this repo with git or download its zipped contents using the link in the sidebar to the right.
First, add the sites you'd like to search for emails in the links.txt file, in the format:
http://www.somewebaddress.com
https://www.magazine.com/author/person/article/cool-stuff
http://ruleofthrees.net
Make sure that each URL is on its own line, with no surrounding quotes or brackets. (You can also save a .csv file as a .txt and FG will read it correctly.)
Then using your terminal, navigate to the project's root directory with cd and enter this command to start the scraper:
casperjs crawler.js
That's it! FG will log updates on the search to the terminal while saving any discovered email addresses to an emails.txt file it will create in the project directory.
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