# paulirish/github-email

Get a GitHub user's email. :sunglasses: Use this responsibly.

Repository: https://github.com/paulirish/github-email
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/github-email
Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/github-email
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-08-31T16:14:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4138, "days_push": 2193, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1011, forks 112 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.143340+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, osint, http-client
- domain: developer-tools, osint
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: github-api, email-lookup, shell-script, npm-package, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- paulirish/github-email (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.143340+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:52.318616+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/paulirish/github-email (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.143340+00:00, sha 6a10ee82bb70)
  - homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/github-email (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:34.271122+00:00, sha 38e001767551)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.