OSINT made easy. Find emails for anyone.

Anonymouse — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:23:26 +0000

Ever wonder how to contact individuals if all you have is their social media link (like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc)?

I was recently tasked with doing just that. Specifically, I had to take a spreadsheet and add email addresses or phone numbers to it for each row. The spreadsheets looked like this,

name,linkedin_url
Steve Wozniak,linkedin.com/in/wozniaksteve
Bill Gates,linkedin.com/in/williamhgates
...

I wasn't sure where to begin, but after some Google-fu I found an API makes this trivial. In particular, the people enrichment API for Nymeria. What's better, they have a Go SDK!

I put together a quick program to process a spreadsheet from the command line.

Setting up a go module is easy enough,

$ mkdir linkedin-enrichment
$ cd linkedin-enrichment
$ go mod init linkedin
$ go get git.nymeria.io/nymeria.go@latest
$ touch main.go

The code itself was simple. I'll let the code speak for itself (main.go below).

package main

import (
  "encoding/csv"
  "fmt"
  "log"
  "os"

  "git.nymeria.io/nymeria.go"
)

func rows(filePath string) [][]string {
  f, err := os.Open(filePath)

  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("Unable to read input file "+filePath, err)
  }

  defer f.Close()

  csvReader := csv.NewReader(f)
  records, err := csvReader.ReadAll()

  if err != nil {
     log.Fatal("Unable to parse file as CSV for "+filePath, err)
  }

  return records
}

func main() {
  nymeria.SetAuth("YOUR API KEY GOES HERE")

  rs := rows("YOUR FILE NAME HERE")

  // Note, [1:] to skip the header row.
  for _, row := range rs[1:] {
     params := []nymeria.EnrichParams{
        {
          // In my case, the URL was in the second column.
          URL: row[1],
        },
     }

    if es, err := nymeria.Enrich(params...); err == nil {
      for _, enrichment := range es {
        if enrichment.Status == "success" {
          if len(enrichment.Data.Emails) != 0 {
            fmt.Printf("%s,%s\n", row[1], enrichment.Data.Emails[0].Address)
          }
        }
      }  
    }
  }
}

Running and getting the output is simple,

➜  linkedin-enrichment: go run main.go
linkedin.com/in/wozniaksteve,steve@woz.org
linkedin.com/in/williamhgates,bill.gates@gatesfoundation.org

Has anyone else been tasked with similar problems? How did you solve them?

How can I network without social media?

Anonymouse — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:11:26 +0000

I don't use social or professional networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or even Dev much for that matter.

How can someone network in 2020, without bowing to social media and forgoing their own data and privacy?

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OSINT made easy. Find emails for anyone.

How can I network without social media?