Twitter Mass E-Mail Grabbing Script

[dor@tehexploa]

I saw mention of a Twitter mass e-mail script in a thread tonight, and decided I would attempt to find it / make my own. This is almost my first PHP script so don't laugh at the superfluous code.. I am a huge newb, and I couldn't figure out how to increase the page # in a loop. Hope this helps somebody, because I read that there is one here on the board but is kept in a senior section.

<?php
for($i=0;$i<102;$i++) 
{
$url = "";
switch($i)
{
case 0:
    $url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";
    break;
case 2:
    $url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=XXXXXXXXXX&page=2&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";
    break;
case 3:
    $url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=XXXXXXXXXX&page=3&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";
    break;

......... cycles ........ i kno i kno... i suck lol

case 99:
    $url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=XXXXXXXXXX&page=99&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";
    break;
case 100:
    $url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=XXXXXXXXXX&page=100&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";
    break;
}

$file = file_get_contents($url);
$file = strip_tags($file);
 
preg_match_all(
    

"([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|

museum)\b)siU",
    $file,
    $matches);

ob_start();

print_r($matches);

$output = ob_get_clean();

file_put_contents( 'emails2.txt', file_get_contents('emails2.txt') . $output );

$file = array();
$matches = array();
$output = array();
// end of for loop - back to top!!
} 
?>

Used http://hiderefer.org/?http://www.fromzerotoseo.com/twitter-email-grabber/ as a framework.

Directions:
1. Perform this search in your own browser: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22
2. Go to page 2 of search.
3. Copy and paste the 10 digit ID to replace the XXXXXXXXXX in the switch loop above.
(this can be done pretty easily with notepads replace function)
4. upload this script and an empty 'emails2.txt' (or change name) to your server
5. browse to this script..

takes about 1 minute for it to complete but def works nicely

any help on how to condense this would be greatly appreciated!

 

[crisis23]

do you mean it grabbed email of the users or just random emails??

 

[dor@tehexploa]

emails of the users..

it's basically banking off of people that actually twitter something like, "hey i'm dumb e-mail me at [email protected]" lol

now that I think about it.. is this the right section?

 

[dor@tehexploa]

:::SORRY FOR SO MANY POSTS BUT I FIXED THE CODE UP CONSIDERABLY:::

<?php

for($i=1;$i<XXX;$i++)             // CHANGE XXX TO NUMBER OF PAGES TO BE SCANNED
{

$id = "XXXXXXXXXX";              // CHANGE THIS LINE

$url= "http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=" . $id . "&page=" . $i . "&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22";


$file = file_get_contents($url);
$file = strip_tags($file);
 
preg_match_all(
    

"([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|

museum)\b)siU",
    $file,
    $matches);

ob_start();

print_r($matches);

$output = ob_get_clean();

file_put_contents( 'emails.txt', file_get_contents('emails.txt') . $output );

//$file = array();
//$matches = array();
//$output = array();

// end of for loop - back to top!!

} 

?>

This is much nicer looking.

 

[ukescuba]

add yahoo.com and aol.com to your $url line to also collect all yahoo and aol emails too...

hth

edit

actually use this url structure... it will remove your twitter id and paste 100 results per page too

http://search.twitter.com/search?page=1&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com+OR+yahoo.com+OR+aol.com&rpp=100

 

[ukescuba]

lol ok so i merged my code and dor@tehexploa... hope you dont mind dor@tehexploa!

this code removes your twitter id and creates more results per page... you will need to keep refreshing this to gather more emails... some of the emails may need cleaning too... but hey its a free scrape script to get your rolling!

i know this is a double post in jr vip but since dor@tehexploa is non jr vip and contributed to the code its only fair its shared in non jr vip too...

<?php
//set # of pages (5) to scrape - you can increase this...
for($i=1;$i<5;$i++)

{

//set url to scrape
$url = file_get_contents("http://search.twitter.com/search?&page=".$i."&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com+OR+yahoo.com+OR+aol.com&rpp=100");


//clean content
$content = strip_tags($url);


//extract emails
preg_match_all("([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|biz|info)\b)siU",$content,$emails);
ob_start();
print_r($emails);
$output = ob_get_clean();

//write emails to a file
file_put_contents( 'emails.txt', file_get_contents('emails.txt') . $output );
}

?>

PS the code is showing an extra space that i cant delete right before yahoo.com

Disclaimer: this should be used for educational purposes only guys... remember spamming is bad and in some places punishible by fines!

 

[dor@tehexploa]

I don't mind at all! That's awesome that you can put more than the standard ~10 - ~15 results to a page. Just updated my code and couldn't be happier.

 

[ukescuba]

I don't mind at all! That's awesome that you can put more than the standard ~10 - ~15 results to a page. Just updated my code and couldn't be happier.

i also posted the code back at the original blog and also took the liberty to credit you with helping put this together...

best regards

ukescuba

 

[kingbrend]

That was fast... hxxp://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/11/spammers-may-have-another-trick-in-twitter

 

[dor@tehexploa]

That was fast... hxxp://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/11/spammers-may-have-another-trick-in-twitter

Yea this was posted in another thread here in the lounge.. This is what made me investigate how to do it. I didn't even know this was possible and already available in the Junior VIP section.

-----

Thanks so much, ukescuba!
Btw how does one get into the Jr. VIP section? Sounds like it has some pretty useful information - no reason to reinvent the wheel

Also, I edited the code a bit to output a comma separated list. Quick addition to those who aren't familiar with PHP and can't do it themselves.

<?php
//set # of pages to scrape - you can increase this...
//I found there were a max of 15 when searching manually
for($i=1; $i<15; $i++)
{

//set url to scrape
//if you can think of any other popular emails domains let us know!
$url = file_get_contents("http://search.twitter.com/search?&page=".$i."&q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com+OR+yahoo.com+OR+aol.com&rpp=100");


//clean content
$content = strip_tags($url);


// extract emails
preg_match_all("([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|biz|info)\b)siU",$content,$emails);

ob_start();

for($x=0; $x < count($emails,1)-1; $x++)
{
	print $emails[0][$x] . ", ";
}
// next line creates a space between pages
print "\n";print "\n";

$output = ob_get_clean();

// write emails to a file
file_put_contents( 'emails.txt', file_get_contents('emailst.txt') . $output );

}
?>

 

[ukescuba]

@dortehexploa

you can get jrvip status and access to the jrvip area either by donating to BHW and continue on contributing like you are doing, i think after a certain time/valid post count you automatically upgraded

for exec status think you need to be voted in as well as be an all round helpful guy/gal

hth

 

[arvo]

I've made a few enhancements to this email harvester. You can now watch it harvest the emails. It will not timeout. It's configurable.

Please give me feedback so I can enhance it more...

 

[NgocChinh]

GREAT !!!

How can i use it via command line? Because i can't wait it load to finish.

Another question, can i use it for another website.
Example: I have websites like this:
http://domainname.com/contact.php?id=$number
And $number is range of 1 to 10000.
Each page have an email, so can you modify your code ?

Thanks.

 

[anonymust]

So how does one like me get this to actually work? Do i need to install a virtual server? XAMMP? or something like it?