The PeopleDB Journal
Notes from inside a contact
intelligence engine.
Engineering deep-dives, product reasoning, and the occasional war story from indexing the public web.
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Engineering
6 min
There is no LinkedIn email API. Here's what to use instead.
LinkedIn's first-party APIs don't expose contact data, and they're not going to. This is what every CRM, sales tool, and recruiting platform actually does — and how to do it yourself.
Erik Strömberg
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Engineering
6 min
Why finding a GitHub user's email is harder than you'd think
GitHub's API doesn't expose user emails, commits get rewritten to noreply, and the events archive ships hashed addresses. Here's what it actually takes to resolve a GitHub login to a real, deliverable email.
Erik Strömberg
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