How I can get user info profile from Google API?

Question

I have to implement signIn by google account.

I want to some suggestions.

I created project in google console. Added scope user info.profile

I'm following course instruction on internet, but I still cannot get userinfo ( email, name, age ... ).

Step:

• Get code in url redirect_uri by client_id
• Get token https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token by code, client_id, client_secret ...
• Try call to https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/tokeninfo?access_token=accessToken to get info but only object

{
    "azp": "155122683461-51hq2n932svo4ajbt98ic0q67m4tuj5o.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    "aud": "155122683461-51hq2n932svo4ajbt98ic0q67m4tuj5o.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    "sub": "108865940357700877124",
    "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile",
    "exp": "1554094721",
    "expires_in": "3326",
    "access_type": "offline"
}

Can you guys give me an example :(

Thanks

Solution

people api

The infomration you are looking for can be found on people.get

GET https://people.googleapis.com/v1/{resourceName=people/*}

tip send Field mask with no space - person.emailAddresses,person.birthdays It reads form person info so the user will have had to fill in this information

However you will need to add the scopes to get the information you want

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/profile.emails.read
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.birthday.read

You can test it here Google Apis explorer

A node.js quick start for google people api can be found here

userinfo endpoint

The userinfo endpoint can also be used but it does not return the information you are looking for

You need to request the email scope to have seen email in the below response the user must grant you permission to see their email the following is standard response for profile scope only.

GET /oauth2/v2/userinfo HTTP/1.1
Host: www.googleapis.com
Content-length: 0
Authorization: Bearer ya29.GlveBiwp4-NTPLU9VN3rn1enty11KOdQHGcyfZd1xJ1Ee9eGS2Pw2nJ7KDUBQPa-uT-AoKDQdoVigU6bruVIB1a3fiBu1n

response

{
  "picture": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a1CWlFnA5xE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAl1I/UcwPajZOuN4/photo.jpg", 
  "name": "Linda Lawton", 
  "family_name": "Lawton", 
  "locale": "en", 
  "gender": "female", 
  "link": "https://plus.google.com/+LindaLawton", 
  "given_name": "Linda", 
  "id": "117200475532672775346"
}

scopes

You should consult the node tutorial for how to work with scopes. Remember you will need to request access of the user again if you change the scope in your code.

const SCOPES = ['profile', 'email'];

Comments

[Vũ Anh Dũng]

I can't see that scope in list scope can choice

[DaImTo]

which scope and which list? Scopes are just strings you can add what ever you want.

[Vũ Anh Dũng]

GET /oauth2/v2/userinfo HTTP/1.1 Host: www.googleapis.com Working but I need user.email in response

[DaImTo]

As i mentioned in my answer and in your other comment. You need to add the email scope when authorizing your user if you want return email in userinfo endpoint.

[Vũ Anh Dũng]

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https://www.‌​googleapis.com/auth/‌​userinfo.profile,htt‌​ps://www.googleapis.‌​com/auth/profile.ema‌​ils.read,https://www‌​.googleapis.com/auth‌​/user.birthday.read&‌​response_type=code&a‌​ccess_type=offline&r‌​edirect_uri=http://l‌​ocalhost:3001/oauth/‌​google&client_id=607‌​602703319-5654m0luqa‌​aqjq14vjjei27qo86a9c‌​t0.apps.googleuserco‌​ntent.com

[Vũ Anh Dũng]

Do you mean set scope to url request authorization? I set it as above but gt error: 400. That’s an error. Error: invalid_scope Some requested scopes were invalid. {invalid=[https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile,h‌​ttps://ww

[DaImTo]

check the scope section of my answer. I think that you should open a new question and post your code this is beyond the scope of your current question which was just about which api to use. if you post a new question with your code i would be able to help you address any issues with your code more efficiently

[Vũ Anh Dũng]

Thanks. I tried add scope userinfo.email and it working

[Sodved]

Hi, thanks. I have the userinfo call working fine: "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo but was just wondering if there are proper GoogleClient libraries (java) somewhere encapsulating this. I don't want to use people API as is not currently enabled for our app and all we want is the email address to display with the token. Thanks

[DaImTo]

@Sodved it is not recommend using the userinfo endpoint as its not guaranteed to always return all of the claims, on occasion they will not be returned to you as its not intended to be a profile data resource. If you want to get user profile data then you should use the people api which will give you access to all the data you need.

[Sodved]

All I want is the email that was used to get the refresh token. But I'll talk with our GCP team about enabling the People API