Author Finder: Bulk Email Discovery from Articles
The Bulk Author Finder tool helps you save time by identifying and verifying professional email addresses from blog posts, news articles, and other online publications.
How to Use the Bulk Author Finder
Navigate to the Bulks page
Click on Author Finder
Select + New Bulk, name your task
Upload your file
📄 Accepted file types: .CSV or .TXT
📌 Your file should contain only URLs of online articles, one per row.
Once uploaded, Tomba will analyze each article and return verified email addresses using domain-based patterns and available public sources.
Managing Your Uploaded Tasks
You can easily manage your bulk author tasks with the following actions:
Sort: Organize tasks by Title, Status, or Date
Search: Filter tasks by name
Rename: Edit the name of any task
Delete: Remove any task via dropdown options
Find Author Emails via Google Sheets Add-on
Tomba for Google Sheets allows you to enrich article URLs directly from your spreadsheet.
Open your Google Sheet with article URLs
Select the Author tab
Match the column containing your article URLs
Check the “My table has headers” box if needed
Click “Find email addresses”
📌 Tomba will automatically populate:
The author's email address
A confidence score
A status column, indicating:
✅ OK: Email found
❌ No results: No email found
⚠️ Error: Missing required data (e.g., article URL)
Find Author Emails via Excel Add-in
Using Tomba’s Microsoft Excel Add-in, you can enrich your article list directly from Excel:
Open your Excel file
Go to the Author tab
Match the column with article URLs
Click “Find email addresses”
Tomba will fill the results with:
Email address
Confidence score
Verification status
Using the Author Finder via API
Automate author email discovery from article URLs using Tomba’s API:
from tomba.client import Client
from tomba.services.finder import Finder
# Initialize the Tomba client
client = Client()
client.set_key('ta_xxxx').set_secret('ts_xxxx')
# Initialize the Finder service
finder = Finder(client)
# Find the author's email from a blog post URL
result = finder.author_finder('https://clearbit.com/blog/company-name-to-domain-api')
Available SDKs
Tomba offers official SDKs for many popular programming languages, including:
PHP, Python, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, Dart, JavaScript, R, Lua, Elixir, and more.
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