GitHub Email Extractor

Extract email addresses from commit metadata. This script supports GitHub users, organizations, and Git repositories.

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

Requirements

Note

By default, the script accesses GitHub's unauthenticated API, which is limited to 60 requests per hour. Authenticate using the gh CLI to increase this limit and scan private repos.

• bash 4+
• git
• curl
• awk or gawk, not mawk
• (Optional) gh cli authenticated

Alternatives

• emailaddress.github.io
• Gitmails-sh
• gitrecon