email-finder

Email finder is used to find and record all email addresses associated with a given web site. The program finds all email address on the given page and then recursively calls itself for any links to pages found on the current page.

Outputs

Email finder generates the following outputs:

1. a file containing the discovered emails
2. a file containing the links to pages that were successfully read
3. a file containing the links to pages that were not successfully read

Usage

java -jar email-finder.jar

Example:

java -jar email-finder.jar http://cdm.depaul.edu

Recent changes (5/14/2020)

1. Added ability to use local files. Just provide complete path. ("file://" is not needed or expected).

2. Added max email parameter. In a test of EmailFinder, it could look like this:

   EmailFinder.main(new String[] {"http://www.google.com", "3"});

   ... meaning it should stop after 3 email addresses are found.

Recent changes (4/25/2020)

1. Now write out found email addresses, list of successful URLs, and a list of failed URLs
2. StorageService class was added to encapulated storage details
3. PageCrawler is now created with with 2 parameters: a StorageService and a maximum number of email addresses to find
4. The main method of EmailFinder was refactored to provide a run() method for easier testing

TODO

1. Make app stop sooner. With max emails set to 50, it still finds 90 emails
2. Clean up progress information