FindGitHubEmail

Thanks for the useful tool! Email addresses are not secrets, and I can't count the hours I've wasted trying to email some developer who thinks that by keeping his email address…

I'm always fascinated when something like this appears on HN and it turns out to be a dozen lines of bash. I could easily imagine writing a hundred lines of a "better" language…

This feels like nothing more than linkbait with no value-add. Emails are public on Github anyways, so simply browsing to github.com/<username> will show the users registered…

Pretty obvious to those of us who use GitHub. Commit to a public repo under your email and people can see it? Not news.

Title should be corrected, as it doesn't get the email address of all users, only those with public activity. A team member on a private org repo I'm a part of has no public…

Running it against my username, the first email address it pulls is the email of someone who contributed to one of my projects, not mine. (using -a does also include my address)

You can get any email for a developer from their commits in the json api...companies like Entelo & TalentBin have discovered this a long time ago and appear to be reselling them…

> If you have seen an uptick in recruiter spam lately, now you know why. Thank you, I was wondering how so many managed to find my e-mail.

It could be better bash, e.g. using [[ instead of [. Also, ``` curl -s https://api.github.com/users/$2/events/public | grep "\"gravatar_id\":" | sed -e's/[,|"]//g' | head -n 1 |…

Ruby uses `` to execute installed programs, which is the best part of bash. I'd say Ruby rivals bash in this sense.

I thought this was going to be a reverse-MD5 on their gravatar url. Interesting to know this is there, too! (As a possible improvement you could also take all possible matches…

https://github.com/hodgesmr/FindGitHubEmail/pull/5 I'm not really that familiar with bash scripting so this might be a mess.

Honest question - why is this news? (And why was it also news yesterday?)

You can get any email for a developer from their commits in the json api...companies like Entelo & TalentBin have discovered this a long time ago and appear to be reselling them…

> I believe its illegal (can-spam) to email someone if you harvested their email programmatically Nope. You can email pretty much anyone in America, regardless of how you…

The CAN-SPAM Act has specific prohibitions (and extra harsh sentencing guidelines) for spamming harvested (or "dictionary attack") e-mails. Even if you meet all the other…

You can get any email for a developer from their commits in the json api...companies like Entelo & TalentBin have discovered this a long time ago and appear to be reselling them…

$500... http://hacktalent.com sells them for $9