Website Selection

Overview

The Website Selection section is the place where you select the websites you want to scrape from or select a search engine to use for scraping. It’s broken down into three sections: a custom URL box where users can input their own websites, a list of the most popular websites on the internet which are further broken down into sections based on their ‘genre’ and finally a list of search engines. Choosing the Select All button really is madness. With only a handful of keywords you could literally return hundreds of thousands of emails. Unfortunately no one can be taught how many websites, keywords, advanced options, etc. should be used for any given extraction. There are too many factors involved. A safe bet, where websites are concerned, is to use a half dozen to a dozen pre-defined websites for any given extraction. Again though, this depends on such things as the popularity of the keyword(s), and settings within the Search Criteria. You can always start another extraction with the exact same settings with the exception of a new list of websites to scrape from.

As you use SEE you’ll become accustomed to more or less expecting a certain result and adjust the number of websites that you use accordingly.

Custom URL List

The Custom URL List is a box within the Website Selection where users can input any website. It is intended for both a domain in its entirety or a specific page. A website can be successfully recognized by SEE in any of the following formats:

socialemailextractor.net
www.socialemailextractor.net
http://www.socialemailextractor.net
http://socialemailextractor.net

The first one noted in the list above is the preferred method.
The Custom URL List can also be used to scrape from a specific page only or a specific set of pages within a directory. Some facebook fan pages literally have thousands of page, if not tens of thousands of pages. Checkout this website (http://statistics.allfacebook.com/pages/leaderboard?cat=&fans=&dg=&wg=&sb=d&sbd=d&st=0) for the most popular. This URL, at the time of this writing, lists Justin Bieber as having 35,711,084 fans. That being said there’s probably a lot of pages associated within his ‘fan page section’. By placing the ‘facebook.com/JustinBieber’ in the Custom URL List you will only scrape emails from that fanpage
When scraping from facebook fanpages it’s not necessary to have keywords. Because of the diverse nature of SEE there are other ways to scrape facebook fanpages. This one method is presented here as an example for scraping a specific URL and should be used as your only means to scrape facebook fanpages.

Pre-defined Websites

Social Email Extractor has a set of pre-defined websites to select from. If the niche you’re targeting isn’t website specific than you several options to choose from. The pre-defined website selection is broken down into the following categories:
Popular
Social
Blog/Web 2.0
Video
Article

During Social Email Extractors initial release it has been shown that the websites contained within the pre-defined list consistently produced results. The Popular list is and will likely always be your best bet when extracting. In fact, only two or three of these websites (within the Popular list) is required to produce tens of thousands of email addresses.

Search Engine Scraping

This feature uses the power of search engines to scrape from. It is not recommended to select a search engine in conjunction with a custom or pre-defined website. Search engine scraping operates a little differently. IMG

Note: It is not necessary to choose more than one search engine when using this option. Although this may seem like a good idea testing in this regard result in duplicate results.

Always Choose Google Unless you’re an advanced user, only choose Google for any search engine scrapes. This search engine is by far the most superior. Furthermore don’t have the exact same extraction setups with the exception of choosing another search engine.