How does hunter.io work?

[Bommie]

OK so it searches the web for ''@domain.com'', crawls the results etc. etc.

I get that. It makes sense. It crawls the results all around the web and returns the source. I get it.

But I don't get the ''name prediction'' part. This is a quote from the website owner on quora:

''

1. We search the website of the company the person is currently working for.
2. We search the email addresses we have in our base using the same domain name (i.e. all email addresses with @company.com)
3. We check if there is an email address we have matching with the profile. If there isn’t, we use the most common pattern to return the most likely email address.

''

I don't get it. They get the owner name then assume the address is [email protected]? And they are relying on the guess?

Is that like me making a site which always returns info + domain.com because it's likely that such an email exists?

I don't get it. Can anyone elaborate?

 

[Bommie]

Anyone?

It occured to me that it might guess the domain based on names, THEN it crawls google or whatever for results. Then if it returns any hits, the name is showed. Is this it?

 

[James008]

I had been using hunter.io for a while now, yeah there method is to crawl the name + the company site. If they found a source they display it but sometimes most of the emails you'll get are just guesses I tried neverbounce to double each email I get from hunter and sometimes they aren't working.

 

[Bommie]

I had been using hunter.io for a while now, yeah there method is to crawl the name + the company site. If they found a source they display it but sometimes most of the emails you'll get are just guesses I tried neverbounce to double each email I get from hunter and sometimes they aren't working.

How do they know the names?

Whois is no longer a thing. Maybe they crawl linkedin for names?

 

[Deleted member 813988]

No, they get names from LinkedIn or other social media.
Sometimes names mentioned on other sources.

On the result page, you can see where they got email from

 

[Bommie]

No, they get names from LinkedIn or other social media.
Sometimes names mentioned on other sources.

On the result page, you can see where they got email from

Yeah, linkedin was the most logical assumption. Thanks.

The source is different to where they actually got their guesses from. The source is probably found via googling.

 

[Deleted member 813988]

Yeah, linkedin was the most logical assumption. Thanks.

The source is different to where they actually got their guesses from. The source is probably found via googling.

No need to guess, they show where the result is taken from: