Cloudflare Email Protection Decoder comes in handy to decode emails. Read on to find out more. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our Server Management Services.

Let’s take a look at how our Support Team is ready to introduce customers to Cloudflare Email Protection Decoder.

What is Cloudflare Email Protection Decoder?

Cloudflare protects our websites from bots as well as scrapers. Additionally, it protects us from email spam by concealing on-page emails and then decoding them during page load via Javascript.

Furthermore, this protects emails from bots and scrapers that do not have the ability to execute Javascript.

However, if we want our code to look beyond the email protection offered by Cloudflare, we have to decode the emails.

In fact, the encoded email link in Cloudflare looks similar to this:

<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="633931142127353935313e352e7a373b04">[email protected]</a>

or

<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4e323a1f2a2c3e322e3a353e25713c3034"><i class="svg-icon email"></i></a>

The encoded strings in the above exampels,633931142127353935313e352e7a373b04 & 4e323a1f2a2c3e322e3a353e25713c3034, offers us the original email after decoding.

Additionally, Cloudflare’s Javascript for decoding emails is simple. We can even use the Javascript version of the decider if we are in NodeJS. However, if we are not in NodeJS, we can implement the same in our language.

Alternatively, here is a program to help us decode email protection:

git git@github.com:jslirola/cloudflare-email-decoder.git
cd cloudflare-email-decoder
sudo python3 setup.py install

The following command displays help on how to run the script:

python3 ced-launcher.py -h

Some of the optional arguments include:

• -u URI, –uri URI: URI to download and replace emails protected
• -f FILE, –file FILE: Input file to replace emails protected

For instance:

python3 ced/ced-launcher.py -f tmp/encoded_content.txt > /tmp/decoded.txt

Let us know in the comments how the Cloudflare email decoder helped you out.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to Cloudflare Email Decoder.