# GitHub - How to find email addresses for most users > Quickly find a GitHub user's email address. Learn three effective methods using a web tool, the public API, or by inspecting a commit with the .patch trick. ---  **TL;DR** This article shows three ways to find a GitHub user's email address when it isn't public on their profile: using the [emailaddress.github.io](https://emailaddress.github.io/) web tool, querying the public events API at `api.github.com/users/xxxxxx/events/public`, or appending `.patch` to a commit URL to reveal the committer's email — noting this only works if the user hasn't set their email to private. You'd like to get in touch with a GitHub user but, e.g., you don't want to post your question as an issue because, e.g., it's not about a specific repository but more generic. As a result, the problem can be translated into *How to find the email address linked to a GitHub account*. Recently, I had this need in order to contact someone with a [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/) blog offering a feature that I couldn't find documented on the web. Their blog wasn't on GitHub, but their other repos were. > **It isn't always possible to retrieve the associated email.:** > > Indeed, GitHub provides, among other things, an option to make the email private on the user settings page. ## Using web interface Such a tool exists on the web, like . Just copy/paste there and, perhaps, the system will return any used emails associated with this account. ## Using parametrized URL GitHub provides, in its public API, the list of public events for a given user. You can retrieve the email using the following URL: `https://api.github.com/users/xxxxxx/events/public`. Just replace `xxxxxx` with the GitHub username whose email you wish to retrieve. The response is a JSON array — pipe it through [jq](/blog/linux-jq) to filter the `author.email` fields and keep the output readable. ## Based on a last commit The first thing is, for sure, to go to a public repository maintained by this person and to find a commit, any commit in fact, that they've made. On the main page of the repo, locate f.i. the last commit ID they've made:  Click on the ID and you'll get a new web page with a URL like f.i. `https://github.com///commit/`. Edit the URL and just append the `.patch` suffix to it (so now, the URL should be `https://github.com///commit/.patch`). Before the suffix was added, this is what the page looked like:  And once added:  As you can see, the email address associated with the GitHub account used to send the commit is now displayed. > **The other side of the coin:** > > This works because your own commits carry your email too. If you'd rather not publish your professional address on your side projects, [Git - Some tips for your .gitconfig file](/blog/git-config) shows how to use a different identity per folder.