How to get user email after app is whitelisted to request email address

[andypiper]

Have you tried to do this from code, rather than using the console tool? I can request my own user’s verify_credentials endpoint with ?include_email=true at the command line using twurl, and it comes back successfully. I actually cannot understand how this can work from the console, since there’s no way for you to accept the “can this app access your email address” prompt - you’re acting as the console app, not as your app with the whitelisted access. With twurl, when I run twurl authorize I’m prompted for all the relevant permissions requested by my app consumer key.

What language or code library are you using? can you provide any more context?

[devuser13]

we are using “PHP” as a language and “Abraham Williams (abraham@abrah.am)” as a code library.
Host url is : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/

this is code line:

$twitteroauth->get(‘account/verify_credentials’, array(‘include_email’ => true));

when we click on twitter button on my site we go to following page:

here we have message that, this application will be able to: “See your email address.”;

Further, When we click on sign in button we redirected to our website page where we print and check output. But unfortunately, there we cannot found any email address field.

[abraham]

Use array('include_email' => 'true') (string). Another developer recently discovered that using true (boolean) doesn’t work consistently.

[Intubus]

Hi, andypiper
I’ve added the permission to request email address but on a Twitter Auth Page, the email is in the “Will not be able” section.
Thanks for any suggestions.

[andypiper]

You might want to try regenerating your app keys.

[Intubus]

Thanks but i’ve done that

[andypiper]

OK - you’ve also added a privacy policy and TOS URL in the app settings on apps.twitter.com, and checked that the email permission is enabled?

If you still have an issue, you can open a ticket via support.twitter.com/forms/platform and send your app ID (the number in the URL when you’re on apps.twitter.com) so the team can check your permissions are set.

[Bribar80]

For anyone who might be strugglin with this, here’s what I did. I went through most of the things documentation and Andy spoke of and still no go. Make sure all these are checked off.

I finally tried regenerating a new consumer key and secret in combination with passing ‘include_email’ => ‘true’ on GET account/verify_credentials. Not sure which did the trick, but it works!!! Oh the wasted hours getting this to work lol! I guess thats development for you

[dream_pranil]

I cant see “see your email address” while authenticating.

I have refresh tokens. TRIED
include_email’ => ‘true’ on GET account/verify_credentials. TRIED
added a privacy policy and TOS URL in the app settings TRIED
email permission is enabled TRIED
What should i do . ? Something missing from me ?

[Mad_Ted]

I am experiencing the same problem.

In my callback sevlet

           ConfigurationBuilder builder = new ConfigurationBuilder();
	       builder.setOAuthConsumerKey(Setup.CONSUMER_KEY);
	       builder.setOAuthConsumerSecret(Setup.CONSUMER_SECRET);
	       builder.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken.getToken());
	       builder.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(accessToken.getTokenSecret());
	       builder.setIncludeEmailEnabled(true); 	       
	       User u = twitter.verifyCredentials();
	       System.out.println(u.toString());

Results printed in the console

    UserJSONImpl{id=218997731, name='Teddy Madile', email='null', screenName='Mad_Ted', location='Gaborone, Botswana', description='Thats for you to find out', isContributorsEnabled=false, profileImageUrl='http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/808248163362603008/l5klf1wW_normal.jpg', profileImageUrlHttps='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/808248163362603008/l5klf1wW_normal.jpg', isDefaultProfileImage=false, url='https://t.co/yggDunCZg7', isProtected=false, followersCount=40, status=StatusJSONImpl{createdAt=Mon Dec 12 12:00:17 CAT 2016, id=808250109293195264, text='https://t.co/MTXjLLLEcJ', source='<a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow">Twitter Web Client</a>', isTruncated=false, inReplyToStatusId=-1, inReplyToUserId=-1, isFavorited=false, isRetweeted=false, favoriteCount=0, inReplyToScreenName='null', geoLocation=null, place=PlaceJSONImpl{name='Botswana', streetAddress='null', countryCode='BW', id='8a927a7056322151', country='Botswana', placeType='country', url='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/geo/id/8a927a7056322151.json', fullName='Botswana', boundingBoxType='Polygon', boundingBoxCoordinates=[[Ltwitter4j.GeoLocation;@457580f9], geometryType='null', geometryCoordinates=null, containedWithIn=[]}, retweetCount=0, isPossiblySensitive=false, lang='und', contributorsIDs=[], retweetedStatus=null, userMentionEntities=[], urlEntities=[], hashtagEntities=[], mediaEntities=[MediaEntityJSONImpl{id=808250035175616512, url='https://t.co/MTXjLLLEcJ', mediaURL='http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czd7H-xW8AA1r4V.jpg', mediaURLHttps='https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czd7H-xW8AA1r4V.jpg', expandedURL='https://twitter.com/Mad_Ted/status/808250109293195264/photo/1', displayURL='pic.twitter.com/MTXjLLLEcJ', sizes={0=Size{width=150, height=150, resize=101}, 1=Size{width=680, height=636, resize=100}, 2=Size{width=900, height=842, resize=100}, 3=Size{width=900, height=842, resize=100}}, type='photo', videoAspectRatioWidth=0, videoAspectRatioHeight=0, videoDurationMillis=0, videoVariants=0, extAltText='null'}], symbolEntities=[], currentUserRetweetId=-1, user=null, withHeldInCountries=null, quotedStatusId=-1, quotedStatus=null}, profileBackgroundColor='C0DEED', profileTextColor='333333', profileLinkColor='0084B4', profileSidebarFillColor='DDEEF6', profileSidebarBorderColor='C0DEED', profileUseBackgroundImage=true, isDefaultProfile=false, showAllInlineMedia=false, friendsCount=27, createdAt=Tue Nov 23 19:24:23 CAT 2010, favouritesCount=1, utcOffset=-1, timeZone='null', profileBackgroundImageUrl='http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_background_images/615346876/721074xmtze80ilmc9se.jpeg', profileBackgroundImageUrlHttps='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_background_images/615346876/721074xmtze80ilmc9se.jpeg', profileBackgroundTiled=true, lang='en', statusesCount=51, isGeoEnabled=true, isVerified=false, translator=false, listedCount=0, isFollowRequestSent=false, withheldInCountries=null}

I am using the Twitter4j Core 4.0.6 library.

I have searched various forums, and people reported that it has worked for them.

The email field still returns null.

[chief_kartunix]

Hello, I have a question where can get this URLs “privacy policy and TOS URL” ???

[andypiper]

You need to provide those URLs for your own app so that a user can learn your privacy policy and terms of service and the reason you are requesting their email address.

[chief_kartunix]

What must I do to show window with confirmation that user allow user him
email address?

[andypiper]

You’ll need to implement a sign-in with Twitter flow in your application. Many of the available client libraries for Twitter provide examples that show how to do this.

[chief_kartunix]

I have Twitter sing-in.
What am I do wrong?
See attached screen.

[andypiper]

That looks correct. Once you’ve gone through the flow, you should be able to use the tokens on the verify_credentials call to request the email address (if the address is verified).

[chief_kartunix]

What version of OAuth must I use?

[andypiper]

Oauth 1.0A but you just said your sign in with Twitter flow is working so I assume that’s what you’re using…

[chief_kartunix]

Thanks. All works.

[winmasyr]

Was experiencing the same problem . Fixed it by replacing 'include_email' => true with 'include_email' => 'true'.