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[ Gilbert Maynard ],

The FREE GOTD LetsExtract Email Studio Lite Personal version does file, folders, websites, search engines, whois, but does not do companies, lists, mailboxes, Yelp, Facebook, or Twitter.

The difference between $50 personal and $70 pro PAID versions seems to be ... um, $20, and may or may not include and exclude what we get and don't get in the FREE GOTD Lite Personal version.

The FREE trial version appears to have all features.
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Gilbert Maynard, When you installed, you will immediately understand the difference

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[ Bentta ],

But Google has no way of knowing you are using this software because [ LetsExtract Email Studio ] does not use any Google Chrome web browser resources and does not search through Google in any way.

Anyway, I just used today's GOTD software to recover a lot of contact information from a recovery mess from one of my own crashed hard drives -- priceless!

Great software, I like it.
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[ MikeR ],

Yes, there is often variance between what's promised, what we expect, and what's really inside each day's offering.

Regardless, it's all free, and some of it turns out to be a mismatch for our interests, and a waste of time, and some of it seems okay if not stellar.

Today's offering of LetsExtract Email Studio v4 makes random email lists, it does not build a useful address book, and their free web-based equivalent shows the results -- just a bunch of unreferenced emails ... and their phone extractor failed to work in my test.

They have self-identified competition: Email Extractor Pro, Email Grabber, Lead Extractor, Email Miner, Email Scraper ... so now we can more easily comparison shop, though we can do a simple Google search for "extract contact information from the web" or simply "data scraper".

That said, what's the value in this software for those of us NOT building a broadcast email list for spam or to sell fresh lists to spammers?

I tested by entering one of my favorite hobby sites, and it immediately built a site map for me, so now I not only know what's on the site, I also know from the web page titles exactly what web page will bring me to particular subjects that I did not previously know were offered, web pages about subjects that interest and fascinate me, but were buried and obfuscated by an inelegant web designer ... for example, I had no idea the web site had a forum, now I know how to connect with other readers.

I like that this software offers results in process, it produced 2 emails almost immediately while it continues to hunt through thousands of other web pages for my test site, so I could get started contacting these people without waiting for completion -- luckily some email addresses show someone's name in them, however, this software does not scrape nearby information to identify an email holders name otherwise, so, for example, [ j2043 @ email . com ] will leave you wondering who that is, but [ jsmith @ email . com ] at least is semi-self-explanatory.

This shows you the web page it came from so you can review the source for context just in case someone does put their name neat their cryptic email address.

I can imagine this is also a useful tool for when I have a challenging transaction with someone and I want to contact the owner, their boss, or whomever is responsible, I can explore their public presence for ways to contact them, then either use it, or turn it over to my lawyer, a court, the FBI, and so on.

there are many features only available in the upgraded "Pro" version, such as email verification, this is the "Lite Personal Version".

It can search my hard drive, deady slow, but scraped from programs and photos, not just text documents, so that may be informative.

It's a tool, now to play with creative ways to implement it's features and reap some benefits ...
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Peter Blaise, thank you for describing a useful, legitimate use for this software by consumers. Sometimes just tracking down contact info on a website can be frustrating and this sounds like it could help.

Peter Blaise: there are a myriad ways via which to discover "an owner, a boss, or whomever is responsible" without necessarily resorting to this type of software. Unlike some other posters, I've not commented on the nature of today's giveaway, merely on the fact that it seems a cynical sell-up using a crippled version of its product and which isn't on sale for $19 anyway. I find that kind of tactic contrary to the ethos of this website -- "FREE licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise" -- hence my earlier post. Your decision to indulge the developer is yours to make but it doesn't seem to me to be helpful to other computer users who would hope to see a higher standard of honesty and transparency amongst software developers as a whole.

Peter Blaise, Perhaps you should read the developers web site before posting a review of questionable software.
"Our software will automatically scan social media profiles and extract such information as occupation, education, likes, and comments. It will also extract the users' public email addresses and phone numbers. If a group or user has provided a link to their website, Email Studio will follow the link and extract email addresses, phone numbers, and other contact details directly from that website. It will also search for the users' Facebook or Twitter UIDs on the Web in order to find their email addresses and phone numbers." As was posted, this can lead to some not so nice things happening to otherwise nice folks. Laws do not discriminate where you got the software from.

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[ DJ ],

I think you are suggesting that there are prohibitions against unsolicited, er, solicitations, spam, junk mail, and or fraud.

Okay.

So don't do that.

Collecting information is legal, and the tools to collect information are legal, especially when used on publicly accessible information.

I think that some GOTD visitors today are confusing their own frustration with spam and junk mail ( and phishing and fraud ) ... versus ... anyone in the public knowing anything about us that we have made publicly known.

I have absolutely no idea why any GOTD visitor would be upset or bothered by any GOTD offering, including, especially, [ LetsExtract Email Studio ], a product with tons of competition readily available world wide ...

... software that automates tasks we all could do by hand,

... even without computers,

... just sit in your local library and courthouse and take notes from public records.

This software does not even include any publishing or email-construction or email-broadcast capability, yet a few GOTD visitors today have complained almost exclusively about publishing and email-construction and email-broadcast activities -- totally off topic.
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[ Anonymous ] wrote "... Is this kind of software really legal? It completely ignores all privacy regulations and harvests/distributes email and login (skype) info without the consent of the owners! ..."

... from publicly available information that has already landed inside your own computer in your own browser cache ( no one surfs the web, their browser does, and copied the web to browser cache, then anything you see on screen has already been written to your own private hard drive -- you personally are only surfing your browser cache, not the web ).

What's your "legal" "permission" worry about reading stuff that's already written to your own computer?
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Peter Blaise,
So you're saying that for example hackers who hack into other people's computers, copy information from there and distribute that information, are really not doing anything wrong, because all the information they share was already 'publicly' available on their own computer anyway?
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the GDPR privacy regulations, but companies and websites that process and store personal information (including email addresses) either need to have permission from the user to process that info, or they need to have a grave (and legally accepted) reason - for example anti terror agencies. It doesn't matter if the source of that information is a public web page (of one of the companies that *does* have that permission).

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[ Anonymous ],

No one is "hacking" into anyone's computers [ sic -- you mean "cracking" ... hackers are good, crackers are bad ].

You misunderstand the power of today's software -- haven't given it a try, eh?

So, you are just writing in speculation on what tools it provides, eh?

Okay.

You are in error, however, and nothing you are writing about has anything to do with today's software.
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[ TK ],

You're confusing public publishing and public distribution with ownership of copies in one's own property.

Personal use is settled law since Sony won the Betamax time-shifting case with a decision in court that said essentially that if it arrives in your home, you can do whatever you want with it in your home, including recording it and playing it back later, Spotify included.

So, yes, of course you can print a copy of someone else's copyright image found on the web, or play back a copy of music recorded from the free public airwaves, or downloaded from Spotify, since you've already made a copy of it on your hard drive.

Remember, no one sees or hears anything on the web, they only see or hear what's already on their hard drive, so the copy has already been made just to just to empower you to look at it on screen or hear it through your speakers.

Of course there are legal prohibitions against unpermissioned public re-publishing it or re-distribution outside your home ( except "fair use" is permitted without permission, but that's yet another subject unrelated to today's giveaway ).

Again, there is absolutely nothing illegal in today's giveaway.
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[ Anonymous ],

[ LetsExtract Email Studio ] has no ability to "hack" into anyone's computer.

It simply scans your own hard drive, and reports to you any contact information it finds.
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[ TK ],

You off topic, because [ LetsExtract Email Studio ] has no publishing or broadcast features ( and doesn't do music, though it will scan music files for contact information and report it to you ).
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[ TK ],

[ LetsExtract Email Studio ] has no publishing or broadcast features.

[ LetsExtract Email Studio ] doesn't do music, though it will scan music files for contact information and report it to you.
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[ Anonymous ],

We can all review a useful, vetted summary of the GDPR General Data Protection Regulation ( EU European Union only ) with 100+ references to explore at [ https :// en . wikipedia . org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation ].

I see no relevance to today's GOTD giveaway of [ LetsExplore Email Studio ], and I suggest that discussions of the EU GDPR migrate to some other more appropriate venue.
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