Scrape all mailto links from a page - Python

email-scrape.py

import requests
import xlwt
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


wb = xlwt.Workbook()
ws = wb.add_sheet('Emails')
ws.write(0,0,'Emails')

emailList= []
r=0

#add url of the page you want to scrape to urlString
urlString='Your page URL goes here'

#function that extracts all emails from a page you provided and stores them in a list
def emailExtractor(urlString):
    getH=requests.get(urlString)
    h=getH.content
    soup=BeautifulSoup(h,'html.parser')
    mailtos = soup.select('a[href^=mailto]')
    for i in mailtos:
        href=i['href']
        try:
            str1, str2 = href.split(':')
        except ValueError:
            break
        
        emailList.append(str2)
        
        
            

emailExtractor(urlString)

#adding scraped emails to an excel sheet
for email in emailList:
    r=r+1
    ws.write(r,0,email)

wb.save('emails.xls')