def cryptEmailAddress(addr):
r = []
for l in addr:
r.append('&#%d;' % ord(l))
return string.join(r,'')

>>>cryptEmailAddress('jkx@larsen-b.com')
'jkx@larse....'

12 thoughts on “Obscufated email ?”

1. This is a sample post to show my email :=)

2. For even shorter code:

   address="some@address.com"
   print ”.join(["&#%d;" % ord(x) for x in address])

3. Yeah it’s shorter, in fact the topic is ‘Obscufated email’ not Obscufated Python :) .. But your version is easy to read too ..

   – Happy obscufated ? :)

4. Ofcourse you could also do:

   def cryptEmailAddress(addr):
   
       return reduce(lambda a, b: “%s&#%d;”%(a, ord(b)), addr,”)

   :)

5. Ofcourse you could also do:

   def cryptEmailAddress(addr):

   return reduce(lambda a, b: "%s&#%d;"%(a, ord(b)), addr,”)

   sorry about the raw crap ;)

6. In fact, i’m working in a school, so I avoid this kind of stuf :)

   – /join #perl-golf

7. and ofcourse if you look from the spamers point of view:

   def decryptEmailAddress(obf):

   return reduce(lambda a, b: a+chr(int(b)), obf[2:-1].split(‘;&#’), ”)

   :D

8. this is a very old trick, and i’m sure all email address harvesters can already cope with this – it’s almost as simple as the AT/DOT crap

9. Oh, is it so easy to get on Python Daily? :-)
   
   I’ve been using this hack (in its one-liner form) for a long time. ;)

   So here’s another scrambler so that I get famous: :D
   
   def nojs_scramble(address):
   
       r = ”
   
       for x in xrange(len(address)):
   
           if x % 2 == 0:
   
             r += address[x]
   
           else:
   
             r += ‘&#%d;’ % ord(address[x])
   
       return r

   def js_scramble(address):
   
       r = “var s=”; “;
   
       for x in xrange(0,len(address),2):
   
           r += “s += ‘%s’; ” % address[x:x+2]
   
       r += “document.write(s);”
   
       return r

   def scramble(address):
   
       import random
   
       v = {}
   
       v['nojs'] = nojs_scramble(address)
   
       v['js'] = js_scramble(address)
   
       result = “”"
   
      
   
      
   

       “”" % v
   
       return result

   print scramble(‘test@domain.com’)

   This gives:

       <script>
   
         var s=”; s += ‘te’; s += ‘st’; s += ‘@d’; s += ‘om’; s += ‘ai’; s += ‘n.’; s += ‘co’; s += ‘m’; document.write(s);
   
       </script>
   
       <noscript>
   
         test@domain.com
   
       </noscript>
   
      
   

10. Oops, trouble with posting..

        result = “”"
    
        <script>
    
          %(js)s
    
        </script>
    
        <noscript>
    
          %(nojs)s
    
        </noscript>
    
        “”" % v
    

11. Hum .. little trick from Christian .. simply crypt the ‘mailto:’ too. This isn’t catholic, but it works too.

    – Really enjoy this little hack

12. I put my e-mail address on the Web only in the form of a bitmap graphic. Humans can read it easily. In order to use it, they have to retype it; but my address is short and they’ll have to do much more typing if they want to send me any worthwhile message.