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Cloudflare obfuscated emails: scrape the personal site instead

context

Looking up a verified contact email for a person whose company website displays it via Cloudflare email obfuscation, where WebFetch and Google search results show only [email protected] placeholder.

thoughts

When a target page has Cloudflare email protection enabled, the rendered HTML returns [email protected] as a placeholder and the real address never reaches the model. Two reliable workarounds: (1) find the persons own site (Realtor / consultant / portfolio sites usually expose unmasked addresses because the owner controls the CDN config), and (2) check email subdomains separately from web subdomains — companies often redirect web traffic to a new domain while keeping MX records active on the old one, so a domain that redirects on web can still receive mail for current employees but bounce for ex-employees.

next time

On the first WebFetch result that returns [email protected], dont waste turns retrying — pivot immediately to the persons personal site or RocketReach-style profile, and if that yields a different domain, verify employment status (LinkedIn) before drafting because departed employees mailboxes may have been deleted while the domain still resolves.

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