Google OAuth API to get user’s email address?

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Update: December 2018

On December 20th, Google announced that the Google+ API would be turned down in March 2019, with intermittent failure starting at the end of January 2019. As part of the the plus.people.get endpoint is deprecated and scheduled to be terminated.

The userinfo endpoint is de-deprecated (see clarification) and should provide the info assuming

  1. You request the https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project scope and
  2. You request the email field.

Clarification: 24 Jan 2019

Google documented that the userinfo (v2) endpoint was deprecated, but later changed it to “deprecated, but kept available for backwards compatibility”.

Current documentation discusses getting profile and email information through the currently supported openid method. This includes using the “userinfo” endpoint specified in their discovery document, as required by OpenID Connect.

At the moment, that URL is https://openidconnect.googleapis.com/v1/userinfo, but this has changed in the past and the discovery document at https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration is the authoritative source for the URL to use.

So, to be clear:

  • The old userinfo URL is maintained for backwards compatibility
  • The new userinfo URL is available at the discovery document

Regardless, the plus version of anything (described below) is deprecated and scheduled to be removed.

Original Answer

There are a lot of issues here in what you’re doing and how you’re trying to do it.

For starters, the https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v2/userinfo endpoint is deprecated, and scheduled to be removed in September 2014. It has begun working inconsistently – so don’t use it.

As @abraham noted, you’ll use the people.get endpoint at https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me. This should give you the emails field containing an array of addresses. In your case, there will likely be only one that has a type of “account”.

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