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A privacy-oriented CLI tool to discover legitimate contact methods for data access, deletion, or modification requests.

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Exitlight – Find privacy contacts for data deletion requests

Name: Exitlight – Find privacy contacts for data deletion requests
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Author: riccardoruspoli

by riccardoruspoli·Feb 18, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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Uses a headless Playwright browser to render candidate privacy pages, extract both mailto links and inline addresses, rank candidates, and emit per-site JSON or plain email lists. Responsible-scraping defaults (robots.txt, request delay, resource blocking) are practical touches you don't always see in hobby scrapers. It stops at discovery — no contact-form parsing or automated request delivery — and Playwright's install/runtime overhead makes large-scale runs heavier than a simple crawler.

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Hi HN,

Deleting old accounts from websites is often more time-consuming than it should be. In many cases, you have to manually search for the privacy policy, locate the right contact email, and figure out how to submit a data-related request.

I built exitlight, an open-source command-line tool that automates part of this process. Given a website, it attempts to locate the privacy policy and extract publicly available contact information that can be used for requests such as DSARs or account deletions.

It's written in Python, and the first version is available on PyPI. I'd be interested in feedback, especially from people who have dealt with similar large-scale account cleanup workflows.

Repo: https://github.com/riccardoruspoli/exitlight