Show HN: PossibleEmail – Ruby gem to find someone's email address

Does this still work since the Rapportive plugin was shut down a couple weeks ago?

Edit: why the downvotes? The Rapportive plugin was shut down and this gem uses it.

This is not the first post I've seen about this sort of email mining, and certainly see its value (though I've seen some pretty distasteful "look and my business hack! blogposts in the past of the subject).

I wonder at what point this will become so rampant that some sort of pushback happens. If there is pushback, I wonder in what form it will happen and what recourse people have.

Regardless, thanks for sharing!

This is very close to the Python Rapportive API library I have out on github: http://github.com/jordan-wright/rapportive.

It looks like you're missing the middle initial, which a lot of businesses use and also easy to permutate through only 26 letters.

Love the concept! I will be using this for sure.