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How do I extract email addresses from a block of text?

Short answer

Paste the text into a browser-based email extractor and it pulls out every email address it finds into a clean list. It runs entirely on your own device, so the addresses are never uploaded, and a companion tool extracts URLs the same way.

Fishing addresses out of messy text

Email addresses often arrive buried in something else: a pasted email thread, a page of copied text, a log, a signup export mixed with other fields. An extractor scans the whole block, recognizes anything shaped like an address, and hands you just the emails as a list, saving the tedious and error-prone job of finding them by eye.

Keep contact data on your device

Email addresses are personal data, so pushing a page of them through a random online tool is exactly the kind of thing to avoid. A client-side extractor scans the text in your browser and never transmits it, which keeps a list of real contacts on your machine. A matching URL extractor does the same for links, useful for pulling every link out of a document or page source.

Step by step

  1. Paste your text. Open the email extractor and paste the text containing the addresses.
  2. Extract the emails. The tool finds every email-shaped string and lists them, locally in your browser.
  3. Copy the list. Copy the clean list of addresses, or use the URL extractor for links.

Frequently asked questions

Are the extracted addresses uploaded?

No. The scan runs entirely in your browser, so the text and the addresses stay on your device.

Does it remove duplicate addresses?

It pulls out every address it finds; run the result through a remove-duplicate-lines tool if you want each address only once.

Can it extract links too?

Yes. A companion URL extractor pulls every link out of the same kind of text.

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