Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Getting emails from a URL with urllib2

In this example we can see how extract emails using urllib2 and regular expressions.

You can find the following code in the get_emails_from_url.py file:

import urllib2import re#enter urlweb =  raw_input("Enter url: ")#https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/packt/terms-and-conditions#get response form urlresponse = urllib2.Request('http://'+web)#get content page from responsecontent = urllib2.urlopen(response).read()#regular expressionpattern = re.compile("[-a-zA-Z0-9._]+@[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+.[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+")#get mails from regular expressionmails = re.findall(pattern,content)print(mails)

In this screen capture, we can see the script in execution for the packtpub.com domain: