Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

Extracting e-mails to Maltego

There is another recipe in this book that illustrates how to extract e-mails from a website. This recipe will show you how to create a local Maltego transform, which you can then use within Maltego itself to generate information. It can be used in conjunction with URL spidering transforms to pull e-mails from entire websites.

How to do it…

The following code shows how to extract e-mails from a website through the use of regular expressions:

import urllib2 import re import sys tarurl = sys.argv[1] url = urllib2.urlopen(tarurl).read() regex = re.compile((“([a-z0-9!#$%&’*+\/=?^_`{|}~- ]+(?:\.[*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&’*+\/=?^_`” “{|}~- ]+)*(@|\sat\s)(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?(\.|” “\ sdot\s))+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)”)) ...