Download a list of email gravatar images
this is a small practice of downloading a list of anonymous emails gravatar images, this could give you a good indicator of what email is active.
the script is for fun use only, i got the list of emails from pastebin
and you can use any emails list.
Gist : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-06-24
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Author : Emad Elsaid (https://github.com/blazeeboy)
require 'open-uri'
require 'digest'
EMAIL_LIST = 'http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=KdDrmNsX'
SAVE_TO = '/home/eelsaid/Desktop/gravatar/'
# read emails from source
emails = open(EMAIL_LIST).read.lines
# iterate over all emails, get the gravatar image
# and save it locally with the email as file name
# but i convert the @ character to a dot .
emails.each do | email |
gravatar_id = Digest::MD5::hexdigest(email.strip.downcase)
gravatar_url = "http://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/#{gravatar_id}"
image_data = open(gravatar_url).read
file_name = email.strip.downcase.gsub '@', '.'
File.write "#{SAVE_TO}#{file_name}", image_data
end
Written by Emad Elsaid
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