Twitter oauth after connect GET Primary email address

ojm37a · 2015-01-08T16:00:10.297Z

Hmmm. What if I have a web app (not mobile). Do I have to use Fabric to authorize/authenticate from Twitter AND get their email address?

–Owen

andypiper · 2015-01-08T16:05:27.340Z

To clarify - this is also available to web app developers - the docs are being added this week.

ojm37a · 2015-01-08T16:23:03.794Z

Nice!

chemitaxis · 2015-01-15T13:54:55.629Z

HI! Do you know when the Identity Provider of Microsoft could obtain the email? Regards!

slegay · 2015-01-15T17:11:12.934Z

Could you please provide a link to the new documentation? Thx!

andypiper · 2015-01-15T17:25:04.929Z

we’ll announce here when ready.

Basantk21 · 2015-01-20T05:07:10.969Z

Email addresses are not provided.

ojm37a · 2015-01-22T17:02:57.476Z

Any ETA on the announcement? I’ve got my OAuth connection to Twitter working and I’m waiting on the “GET Primary email address” functionality to continue with the project.

Thanks,
Owen

bendavis78 · 2015-01-30T05:27:14.604Z

Hi, have the docs been added for this? It’s been a while now and still can’t seem to find them.

mickey_ga · 2015-02-06T14:17:58.226Z

Still waiting for news, I am writing an app to be ready on monday, will be a real problem if this feature is not going live!

AnthonyIfon · 2015-02-11T19:22:56.359Z

Any update or does anyone know a workaround

Avaks · 2015-02-26T11:55:57.727Z

Just wondering if there any news? Is email already somehow available through API?

arkhipov · 2015-04-23T19:00:38.174Z

So, it’s possible now to get email address via Twitter OAuth?

andypiper · 2015-04-24T08:23:39.826Z

Yes this is now available to whitelisted applications - details in the account/verify_credentials documentation.

skylightit · 2015-04-28T10:11:53.633Z

I have followed that link to verify our business account and I dont see the option to do so. We are a web app and need to have users email address for authentication.

andypiper · 2015-04-28T10:41:25.048Z

OK so the details are all there - you need to apply for whitelisting via the link on the documentation page. Once that has happened, add your privacy policy and ToS links, update your app permissions, and then call account/verify_credentials with the right set of parameters.

skylightit · 2015-04-28T11:16:35.412Z

Have gone through that page and I am not seeing any whitelisting options at all, see attached. Is that because we are in UK?

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andypiper · 2015-04-28T11:36:23.763Z

Select “I need access to special authentication privileges” and in the form that appears, explain that you are requesting access to a user’s email address for your app. You’ll also be required to provide your app’s consumer key and the username of the account that it is registered to.

pixabay · 2015-05-31T21:59:11.679Z

It looks like support for web apps was either never there or has been removed. XAuth, which is required for retrieving an email address, is only available for desktop and mobile apps. The authorization form (https://support.twitter.com/forms/platform) explicitly states, no web apps are supported.

What’s up with that? Than kind of misses the whole point of this thread.

andypiper · 2015-06-01T14:35:05.586Z

“what’s up with that” - we simply haven’t been able to update the support form page yet.

XAuth is not required for accessing email and in fact is deprecated - we don’t recommend any apps use XAuth any more unless absolutely necessary as it does not support e.g. two-factor auth.

You absolutely can request that access to email address for a web app, just ignore that statement and explain the detail in your request.