How the finder works
We start from the address you give us, look in its robots.txt file and sitemaps for pages to check, and then visit a few public pages: the home page and the contact, about, imprint and team pages it links to or lists. On each page we pull out email addresses, phone numbers and links to social profiles, and we keep the address of the page each one came from.
Phone numbers are normalized to the international format, with the country when we can tell. Social links are matched to the network and the handle.
Reading the result
Everything listed was published on the site itself, in the page text or in a link. Nothing is guessed or built from name patterns, and nothing comes from a private database.
The list of pages scanned shows how far the check went. We use a site's robots.txt and sitemaps to find pages, but we do not skip a page because robots.txt asks crawlers to stay away from it.
Each address is shown with the page it was found on, so you can see the context before you use it.
Limits worth knowing
Sites that build their pages with JavaScript only after loading, or that hide addresses behind forms, may show fewer results. We read what the page serves, we do not fill in forms.
The free tool uses the default scan size and has a strict per-visitor limit. The API lets you choose how many pages to scan, up to ten.
Frequently asked questions
Does this follow robots.txt?
No. We read the site's robots.txt and sitemaps to find pages to check, but we do not skip a page because the file asks crawlers not to visit it. Every request names our crawler and gives a contact address, and we limit how many requests we send to one site at a time.
Why did it find nothing for a site that has a contact page?
The details may sit behind a form, load through scripts after the page opens, or be in an image. The tool reports only what is written in the page it receives.
What should I do with the addresses I find?
Reading public pages is the easy part; what you do next matters. Write only to people it makes sense to write to, with something relevant to them, and check the address first.
Can I scan more pages?
Yes, through the API, which lets you set how many pages to read per request. The free tool uses the default size.