You can copy virtually all the e-mail addresses referenced in a website's HTML files.
These e-mail addresses can later be exported into a comma or tab delimited database file.
Benefits of Snaking E-mail Addresses
Some of the benefits snaking e-mail addresses include:
- See all the e-mail links in a website, even those that are not obvious (like ones tied
to a graphic).
- Collect e-mail addresses for research.
To show you a live example of snaking e-mail addresses, let's use Websnake's Web site
(www.websnake.com).
1. Open WebSnake through the Start Menu. By
default, the program opens with the Project Wizard (a Windows feature that leads you
step-by-step through the process). If you're already in the program, click on the Add
button on the main screen or select the Add Project Wizard command in the File menu.
2. Select the third radio button "Snake
e-mail addresses from a website, " then click on the Next button.
3. Type in www.websnake.com in the Starting
Address/URL field. Also, give the project a name. Call our project "Websnake
E-mail." So, type the words "Websnake E-mail" in the Project Name field,
then click on the Next button.
4. The next wizard screen asks if you need a
password to access the website. For our example, just click on the Next button to
go to the following screen.
5. You must tell WebSnake how deep you want it to
snake as well as give tell it when to stop in the event that you're snaking a large
website. For expediency, use the arrow buttons to reduce the number of levels from
"3" (which is the default) to "1" in the " How many levels do you
wish to snake? " field, then click on the Next button. You're not going to be
snaking that much so the "Stop project if space left on local drive is less
than" field doesn't come into play.
6. On the next wizard screen, click on the Finish
button to conclude the project setup.
7. Name your session. Think of a session as a
category of projects, like Entertainment-related or Sports-related. For our example, type
in "browsers" in the file name field, the click on the Save button to
initiate the snaking process. Note that this step is skipped if you've already created
a session and are saving the project into that session.
8. WebSnake will snake www.websnake.com for e-mail
addresses.
