Why
You may want to reach your followers directly. In my case I needed this script to share our new project packagemain.tech with the audience.
How does it work
A lot of users on dev.to are using Github to sign up, so their username matches their Github username
Some people have their email address public on Github
Input parameters
dev.to cookie session. You can find it Dev Tools by inspecting any XHR request and looking for _Devto_Forem_Session
Github personal access token. You can create one here
Go script
https://gist.github.com/plutov/8db528b6470ce7c9b2d0e19670f79698
Usage
Output
users.json – list of dev.to followers
emails.txt – list of found emails
In my case I was able to find 900+ unique emails from my followers.
Hope this was helpful and please use it with good intentions only.
