How to get email adresses

Emails in profiles are obfuscated for everyone including program chairs. However, to perform necessary actions, program chairs sometimes need to retrieve a user's email address to contact them.

To get the preferred email address from a profile, a program chair can do the following:

  1. Install the openreview python library and create a client.

  2. Impersonate the venue and get the preferred email of a profile.

venue_id = '' # For example, 'aclweb.org/ACL/ARR/2025/February'
profile_id = '' # For example, '~Firstame_Lastname1' or an email 'firstname@email.com'

client.impersonate(venue_id)
profiles = openreview.tools.get_profiles(client, [profile_id]) # you can also pass a list containing multiple profile ids or email addresses
user_email = profiles[0].get_preferred_email()

For more information on the params accepted for get_profiles(), please see the documentation.

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