paulirish/github-email

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1011 stars · 112 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small Node.js CLI tool that retrieves a GitHub user's email address even when it is not publicly listed, by querying the GitHub user profile, NPM, and commit activity data. It requires a GitHub personal access token via the GH_EMAIL_TOKEN environment variable.

Use cases

• find a github user's email address
• look up contact email for a github contributor
• get commit author email from github activity
• reach out to an open-source maintainer by email
• discover email hidden behind github noreply address

When to choose

• you need to contact a GitHub user and only have their username
• you want a quick one-command lookup from the terminal
• you're doing responsible outreach to open-source contributors

When to avoid

• you need bulk or automated email harvesting - this is for individual lookups and should be used responsibly
• you need a maintained tool - the last publish was years ago and results depend on GitHub API behavior
• you're unwilling to create a GitHub personal access token

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli osint http-client developer-tools osint cli cross-platform github-api email-lookup shell-script npm-package command-line nodejs

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