📧 Email Extractor

A Python automation script developed as part of the CodeAlpha Python Programming Internship (Task 3: Task Automation with Python Scripts).

This tool scans any .txt file, automatically detects and extracts all valid email addresses using regular expressions, removes duplicates, and saves a clean list to a new output file — a common real-life automation task for handling reports, contact lists, or scraped text data.

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✨ Features

• 📂 Scans any .txt file for email addresses
• 🔍 Uses regex pattern matching to reliably detect valid email formats
• 🧹 Automatically removes duplicate emails
• 🔤 Sorts results alphabetically
• 💾 Saves extracted emails to a new .txt file, with date and total count
• 🔁 Option to scan multiple files in one session
• 🎨 Optional colored terminal interface (works without Colorama as well)
• ✅ Input validation and friendly error messages

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🛠️ Technologies Used

• Python 3
• re (Regular Expressions)
• os Module
• datetime
• Colorama (Optional)

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📂 Project Structure

CodeAlpha_EmailExtractor/
│── email extractor.py
│── README.md

Output files (e.g. extracted_emails.txt) are generated automatically each time you run the script and are not part of the repository.

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▶️ How to Run

1. Make sure Python 3 is installed.
2. Download or clone this repository.
3. Open the project folder in your terminal.
4. Run the following command:

python "email extractor.py"

Note: since the filename contains a space, it must be wrapped in quotes when running it from the terminal.

5. When prompted, enter the path to the .txt file you want to scan (e.g. sample.txt if it's in the same folder, or a full path like C:\Users\dell\Downloads\emails.txt).

Optional: Install Colorama for a colored terminal interface.

pip install colorama

The application also works correctly without Colorama (plain text mode).

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🎯 Learning Outcomes

This project demonstrates the use of:

• Regular Expressions (re module)
• File Handling (reading and writing .txt files)
• Set Operations (removing duplicates)
• Exception Handling
• Modular Programming
• User Input Validation

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👩‍💻 Developed By

Saleha Shahid BS Electrical Engineering University of Management and Technology (UMT)

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📌 Internship

CodeAlpha – Python Programming Internship