Accessing one's email account to get contact info for marketing purposes
In online advertising, contact scraping is the practice of obtaining access to a customer's e-mail account in order to retrieve contact information that is then used for marketing purposes.
The New York Times refers to the practices of Tagged, MyLife and desktopdating.net as "contact scraping".[1]
Several commercial packages are available that implement contact scraping for their customers, including ViralInviter, TrafficXplode, and TheTsunamiEffect.[2]
Contact scraping is one of the applications of web scraping, and the example of email scraping tools include Uipath, Import.io, and Screen Scraper. The alternative web scraping tools include UzunExt, R functions, and Python Beautiful Soup. The legal issues of contact scraping is under the legality of web scraping.
^Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well
TrafficXplode, and TheTsunamiEffect. Contactscraping is one of the applications of web scraping, and the example of email scraping tools include Uipath, Import...
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access...
with freezing, laser therapy, or opening up the lesion and scraping the inside. Scraping the lesion can, however, result in scarring. The oral medication...
from a mixture of ocher and bitumen to make hand grips for cutting and scraping stone tools. More recent examples of adhesive use by prehistoric humans...
spatulas and microspatulas are small stainless steel utensils, used for scraping, transferring, or applying powders and paste-like chemicals or treatments...
regeneration, healing, and recovery. Gua sha is sometimes referred to as "scraping", "spooning" or "coining" by English speakers. The treatment has also been...
their eggs and fecal pellets. Searches for these signs involve either scraping a suspected area, mounting the sample in potassium hydroxide and examining...
varies depending on the shape, dimensions, configuration, quality of the contact surfaces and materials used. Tongue cleaners are mostly inexpensive, small...
symptoms. It may be confirmed by either culturing or looking at a skin scraping under a microscope. Prevention is by keeping the skin dry, not walking...
the piston and the cylinder wall Regulating engine oil consumption by scraping oil from the cylinder walls back to the sump. Most piston rings are made...
has three slightly splayed prongs on each contact to securely surround and grip the conductor while scraping along the outside, and a plug for stranded...
92% of users, exposing contact information, employment information. LinkedIn asserted that the data was aggregated via web scraping from LinkedIn as well...
chattels theory even further to encompass screen-scraping and other data "harvesting." Screen-scraping is the practice of taking information from another...
vision threatening" complication of contact lens wear, which is believed to be strongly associated with contact lens cases. Such infections "are being...
the teeth on a saw or other serrated blade serve a similar cutting or scraping purpose as the serration of an animal tooth. Tailors use pinking shears...
or more to occur. Leprosy is spread between people, although extensive contact is necessary. Leprosy has a low pathogenicity, and 95% of people who contract...
Web archiving Webgraph Website mirroring software Search Engine Scraping Web scraping "Web Crawlers: Browsing the Web". Archived from the original on...
pockets, when the police approach him. After he is hit, he can be seen scraping along the ground on the right side of his forehead; eyewitnesses spoke...
been calqued in dozens of other languages, combining words for "sky" and "scrape" in each language, as for example, German: Wolkenkratzer, Portuguese: Arranha-céu...
by real people, but are created automatically – and incompletely – by scraping details of people's affiliations, publication records and PDFs, if available...
had been some ground contact; at the runway's 1,400-metre (4,500 ft) mark, the plane's left engine is believed to have scraped the runway; at the 1,700-metre...