1st Directory Email Spider

Setting up the first customer or subscription list when starting a business is not something without its own set of challenges. Fortunately, you can employ the services of specialized applications such as 1st Directory Email Spider that allows you to effortlessly extract email addresses.

The first thing you should know about this piece of software is the fact that it can spider any URL directory as well as HTML, CGI, PHP and ASP pages. Also of great importance is the fact that it comes with support for the most popular search engines out there namely Google, Lycos, Yahoo, and Excite, just to name a few.

Getting started with the app implies you having to undergo a streamlined installation process. Once you launch the app, you are bound to discover a very outdated yet quite intuitive user interface.

On the upper part of the main window, there's a light menubar and a top toolbar that allows you to start, pause or stop the scanning (email extraction) process, as well as to export your findings and access the Settings section.

Since almost all the features are right on display, working with this app does not require you to be a computer expert. Simply type in the directory URL and hit Enter.

The app automatically checks if the URL is active or not, ignores the inactive ones, and removes duplicate URL addresses. The results are displayed in a neat and organized fashion, within three, self-explanatory tab sections, namely Emails extracted, websites and subdirectories.

Last but not least, you should also know that 1st Directory Email Spider allows you to export your search results to text files, CSV, TSV and even Microsoft Excel formats, for easier analysis and processing.

To conclude, even though it may not look quite at home on later versions of Windows, there's no denying the fact that 1st Directory Email Spider is an efficient and very lightweight app that can retrieve email addresses from directory URLs with the least amount of hassle.