Scraping Obfuscated Email

[mwickett 0]

Can anyone share some advice for scraping obfuscated email addresses? I've run into this:

<tr> 
            <td bgcolor="dddddd" align="left" valign="top"><b>Room</b></td>
            <td bgcolor="#eeeeee">203</td>
            <td bgcolor="dddddd"><b>Email</b></td>
            <td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><a href="mailto:abelsonj@mcmaster.ca">abelsonj@mcmaster.ca</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 

and this:

<tr>  <td align=RIGHT><b><i>E-mail Address</i></b></td><td><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> 
var data=new Array(133,137,129,132,156,135,210, 
140,137,158,129,140,198,155,133,129,156,128,168,157,167,156,156,137, 
159,137,198,139,137,232); 


var idx=0, n=data[data.length-1]; 
document.write('<a href='); 
while( data[idx]!=n ) { 
document.write(''+(data[idx++]^n)+';');} 
document.write('>'); 
idx= 7; 
while( data[idx]!=n ) { 
document.write(''+(data[idx++]^n)+';');} 
document.write('</a>'); 
 </script> </td></tr> 

Any way to piece these back together? Appreciate any and all insight.

[UBotDev 276]

Google knows everything, you would just need to enter it: http://bit.ly/1hNDhQN 

 

Joke aside, it's called HTML entities and you need to decode the string to  human readable format. You can decode it with javascript or I think there is even a plugin that will help you to do that.

 

Else you can test it here for example: http://htmlentities.net/

 

Any way you can see that you catually have this html there (actual email is removed):

mailto:****@*****.*">*****@*****.*

[mwickett 0]

Cheers, thanks for the pointer.

[Aymen 385]

Plenty of functions you can try

 

http://www.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/16039-free-string-management-plugin/