Methodology
Counts on this page are read from our database when you load it. As of 2026-09-25 23:53 UTC.
What is in the database
| People | 42,987 |
|---|---|
| Outlets they came from | 2,365 distinct websites |
| Email published on the outlet's own page | 2,831 |
| Email published by the person on a profile or feed | 2,998 |
| No published email | 36,990 (of which 1,310 have a pattern guess on file that we never show as an address) |
| Verified | 0 |
Where a contact comes from
Our crawler reads the pages an outlet publishes about its own people: mastheads, staff pages, team pages and author pages, and the author sitemaps many outlets provide. We keep a person only if their name appears on that page. For every person we record the exact page we found them on and the time we read it. 42,443 of the 42,987 people in the database have that source page recorded.
Some contacts come from public platform profiles and feeds instead, for example a podcast's feed or a creator's channel description. Those are labelled as such.
How each email address is labelled
Every address carries one of these labels, and the label is shown with it:
- Published on the outlet's own page: the address appears in plain text on a page the outlet publishes, and we link to that page.
- Published on a profile or feed: the person published it themselves, on a public profile or in a podcast or newsletter feed.
- Never published: we have no address the person or their outlet published. An older part of our system guessed addresses from name patterns (first.last@outlet). We keep those guesses only so we never mistake them for real ones. We never show a guess as an address, and it can never be marked verified without a real check.
Addresses a site has hidden
We do not decode obfuscated email addresses. When a site hides addresses with Cloudflare's email protection or a similar tool, we treat that as the publisher asking not to be harvested, and we do not record the hidden address.
Verification
"Verified" means one thing: a real message was delivered to the address and did not bounce. We show the date it happened. It is not an unexplained badge.
Checks that do not send anything cannot prove a mailbox exists, so we do not call them verification. We run them anyway to remove addresses that cannot work: malformed addresses, domains that do not exist or accept no mail, parked domains and disposable-address services. Today they have removed 46 addresses. 5,783 addresses pass them, which means only that the domain accepts mail. The mailbox itself is still unknown.
The message we send is the notice the law requires: a short email telling each person that we hold their details, where we found them, and how to be removed. If it is delivered and does not bounce within 72 hours, the address is marked verified with that date. If it bounces because the mailbox does not exist, the address is marked undeliverable. If someone replies that the person has left the outlet, we mark that too.
No address is marked verified yet. That is accurate: we have not yet sent the notice that verifies them (see "Verification" below).
How the crawler behaves
The crawler identifies itself as NewzWyreBot/1.0 (+https://newzwyre.com/crawler). It reads robots.txt first and follows it. It does not crawl a site whose robots.txt it cannot read, and it does not crawl a site that sets Content-Signal: ai-input=no. It fetches one page at a time per site, at least 10 seconds apart, or slower if the site's Crawl-delay asks for more. A site that asks for more than 60 seconds between requests is not crawled. It does not log in, submit forms, or read pages behind a paywall. Details: newzwyre.com/crawler.
Opting out
One click removes a person, or a whole domain, and it takes effect immediately. Every email we send carries a one-click unsubscribe link.
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