Use XPath to locate email addresses from Mailto links on any website

Mailto links are used to redirect to an email address instead of a web page URL. When a user clicks on the Mailto link, the default email client on the visitor's computer opens and suggests sending a message to the email address mentioned in the Mailto link.

If a website contains mailto links, it is possible to scrape email addresses from it regardless of the website structure.

A standard mailto link looks like this in the HTML source code:

<a href="mailto:email@example.com">Send Email</a>

<a href="mailto:email@example.com, secondemail@example.com">Send Email</a>

SO the XPath below may work wonders in some cases: 

//a[contains(@href,'mailto')]

Note that this trick only apply to mailto hyperlinks like this:

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