Uh couldn't you use the Events API to more efficiently go through someone's recent commits? def findEmailFromContributor(username, repo, contributor):

Uh couldn't you use the Events API to more efficiently go through someone's recent commits? def findEmailFromContributor(username, repo, contributor): response = requests.get('https://github.com/%s/%s/commits?author=%s' % (username, repo, contributor), auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, '')).text latestCommit = re.search(r'href="/%s/%s/commit/(.*?)"' % (username, repo), response) if latestCommit: latestCommit = latestCommit.group(1) else: latestCommit = 'dummy' commitDetails = requests.get('https://github.com/%s/%s/commit/%s.patch' % (username, repo, latestCommit), auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, '')).text email = re.search(r'<(.*)>', commitDetails)