From 7037ec08648aff1976a621b0f5303493194f5a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hadi <112569860+anotherhadi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:50:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add the --spoof-email toggle

Signed-off-by: Hadi <112569860+anotherhadi@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 README.md            | 1 +
 cmd/email.go         | 8 +++++---
 settings/settings.go | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 779e0e1..507e953 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ github-recon [--flags value] target_username_or_email
 -s, --show-source            Show where the information (authors, emails, etc) were found (only for deep scan)
 -m, --max-distance int       Maximum Levenshtein distance for matching usernames & emails (only for deep scan) (default 20)
 -S, --silent                 Suppress all non-essential output
+    --spoof-email            Spoof email (only for email mode) (default true)
 -h, --hide-avatar            Hide the avatar in the output
 -j, --json string            Write results to specified JSON file
 ```
diff --git a/cmd/email.go b/cmd/email.go
index e934230..25e012f 100644
--- a/cmd/email.go
+++ b/cmd/email.go
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ func email(settings github_recon_settings.Settings, datetime string) {
 	result.Commits = recon.Commits(settings)
 	printStruct(settings, result.Commits, 0)
 
-	printTitle(settings.Silent, "🎭 Spoofing test")
-	result.Spoofing = recon.Spoofing(settings)
-	printStruct(settings, result.Spoofing, 0)
+	if settings.SpoofEmail {
+		printTitle(settings.Silent, "🎭 Spoofing test")
+		result.Spoofing = recon.Spoofing(settings)
+		printStruct(settings, result.Spoofing, 0)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/settings/settings.go b/settings/settings.go
index 2d46d80..f5cc013 100644
--- a/settings/settings.go
+++ b/settings/settings.go
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ type Settings struct {
 	DeepScan      bool
 	MaxDistance   int
 	HideAvatar    bool
+	SpoofEmail    bool
 
 	// Internal
 	Client *github.Client
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ func GetSettings() (settings Settings) {
 	)
 
 	flag.BoolVarP(&settings.Silent, "silent", "S", false, "Suppress all non-essential output")
+	flag.BoolVarP(&settings.SpoofEmail, "spoof-email", "", true, "Spoof email (only for email mode)")
 	flag.BoolVarP(&settings.HideAvatar, "hide-avatar", "h", false, "Hide the avatar in the output")
 	flag.StringVarP(&settings.JsonOutput, "json", "j", "", "Write results to specified JSON file")