Find user using e-mail address

Question

I'm wondering if there is a simple way of using the API to find users given their e-mail address. So far, I've found the following:

the search API only lets you search for questions
the users API lets you filter by dates and by name, but not by e-mail address
some apps, like StackUsers.com and Stack Users Lite seems promising, but both sites seem to be down (http://stackusers.com and http://stackauth.com/0.9/sites, respectively.)
the answers to the questions here and here are quite complicated and require much more work than my little application requires.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 01 '12 at 00:56

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This is not supported, intentionally. Email addresses are private information, only exposed to employees and moderators of Stack Exchange.

If you want to identify a user using your application, you should use the authentication flow.

answered Feb 01 '12 at 00:56

Kevin Montrose

I totally understand and respect that. Though in my case, I already know the e-mail address. What I want to know is some information about the user with this address, more specifically her reputation and badges. In case you wonder why - I'd like to create a Stackoveflow raplet in order to show the user's activity using rapportive, which is a tool that shows information about a user in e-mail applications (currently used in gmail). – uzilan Feb 01 '12 at 07:45

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