SEO UTILITIES
Email Privacy Checker — Find Exposed Email Addresses
Scan a web page for email addresses exposed in its HTML. Plain-text addresses are harvested by spam bots — find them so you can protect your inbox.
Spam bots crawl the web looking for email addresses written in plain text inside a page's HTML. This tool runs the same scan: it fetches a page and reports any addresses sitting exposed in the source, so you can see exactly what a harvester would collect from you.
How to protect an exposed address
- Swap the visible address for a contact form
- Obfuscate it — insert it with JavaScript, or use HTML entity encoding
- Display it as an image rather than selectable text
- Split or encode it so a simple pattern-matcher can't read it straight off
Frequently asked questions
- Does obscuring my email really reduce spam?
- It removes you from the easy, automated bulk harvesting that generates most address-scraping spam. Determined or manual collection can still find you, but you're no longer low-hanging fruit for the crawlers.
- It found no addresses — am I safe?
- It means none were exposed in plain text in the fetched HTML, which is good. But an address inserted by JavaScript after load won't be scanned here — and interestingly, that script-based approach is itself one way to keep an address out of the raw source.
- Can it scan addresses loaded by JavaScript?
- No. It reads the HTML the server returns, so addresses added to the page by scripts after it loads won't appear in the scan.