How complicated answers !! It's easy to get the email adress this way :
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curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$project/commits' | jq '.[0] | .commit.author.email'
It will output the email address of the last commiter .
For example, you can this way extract the 15 email of the 15 last commiters of chromium project :
curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/chromium/chromium/commits?per_page=15' | jq '.[] | .commit.author.email'
Kind regards
nbanba