r-jb / github-email-extractor

Retrieve emails from commits

GitHub Email Extractor

Extract and compile email addresses from GitHub users, organizations, and Git repositories, all from commit metadata.

Installation

Using wget

  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-jb/github-email-extractor/main/gh-email.sh
  chmod +x gh-email.sh
  ./gh-email.sh

Using curl

  curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-jb/github-email-extractor/main/gh-email.sh
  chmod +x gh-email.sh
  ./gh-email.sh

Using an alias

  alias gh-email="$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-jb/github-email-extractor/main/gh-email.sh | sh)"

Requirements

• bash 4+
• git
• gh cli authenticated

Notes

• Why use GitHub CLI instead of requesting GitHub's API directly ?

Currently, GitHub's API only allows for 60 unauthenticated requests per hour, which may not be sufficient for most use cases.