Extract Email Addresses

Overview

What Extract Email Addresses does

Finds conventional email addresses, removes case-insensitive duplicates, and returns one address per line without sending the selection anywhere.

Example

Action and outcome

Workflow

Use Extract Email Addresses

Follow these steps to extract unique email addresses from selected text with ActionClip.

1. Select the text you want to use.
2. Choose Extract Email Addresses from ActionClip.
3. Review the extracted result, then copy it where you need it.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

• Before you start: No setup required.
• Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

function run(selected_text) {
  const matches = selected_text.match(/\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b/gi) || [];
  const seen = new Set();
  const emails = [];
  matches.forEach((email) => {
    const key = email.toLowerCase();
    if (!seen.has(key)) {
      seen.add(key);
      emails.push(email);
    }
  });
  return emails.length ? emails.join("\n") : "No email addresses found.";
}