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node.jsgoogle-apigoogle-plusgoogle-people-apiuserinfo
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Reputation: 123

not able to get user info

bellow is my node js script to get google user details using accessToken

 var accessToken = req.body.accessToken;
            console.log(accessToken)


            var google = require('googleapis');
            //google api
            var plus = google.plus('v1');
            var OAuth2 = google.auth.OAuth2;

            var oauth2Client = new OAuth2(
                config.google.clientID,
                config.google.clientSecret,
                config.google.redirect_uri
            );
            oauth2Client.setCredentials({access_token: accessToken});
            plus.people.get({
                userId: 'me',
                auth: oauth2Client
            }, function (err, response) {
                // handle err and response
                if (err) {
                    reject(err)
                } else {
                    console.log(response);
                    resolve(response)
                }
            });

need to get google login user details using accessToken. what is wrong in code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1876

Answers (2)

Amanpreet
Amanpreet

Reputation: 249

You can use request module to get the user detail on your node server.

But Before requesting the user data, make sure you have authorized the API by giving it the desired scope. In your case, you need to give https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile in the scope.

When you receive your accessToken, use that token to call this google api

https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo

    const request = require('request');
    // use any api you want to call.
    request({
      url: 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo',
      method: 'GET',
      headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${YourAccessToken}`,
        'Accept': 'application/json'
      }
    }, function(err, response, _user) {
      console.log('User Data', _user);
    })

I hope this will solve your problem. If still there is some problem, you can test your Google APIs on OAuth 2.0 Playground

Upvotes: 3

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117321

The most likely cause is the user in question has not created a google+ profile. Here are a few more options.

I am not sure what information you are trying to get but the best way to get user info is to authecate a user using the profile scope then request the data directly of the user info endpoint

Request

GET /userinfo/v2/me HTTP/1.1
Host: www.googleapis.com
Content-length: 0
Authorization: Bearer uzG4XqnvucBFk3jylgxnbtNhoOt2wCc3QvUcjk7PZhJ5m6G7ibtlBwbAQntJjJtLsxZfoDjhbASpzLmcFnlZ9o4qoMd2fCV2eRb4O5XrKRAXC

Response 

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

You can also go though the google people api using the same profile scope

GET /v1/people/me HTTP/1.1
Host: people.googleapis.com
Content-length: 0
Authorization: Bearer NuzG4XqnvucBFk3jylgxnbtNhoOt2wCc3QvUcjk7PZhJ5m6G7ibtlBwbAQntJjJtLsxZfoDjhbASpzLmcFnlZ9o4qoMd2fCV2eRb4O5XrKRAXC

But this endpoint reads from Google+ so if the user has not filled anything out on their Google+ profile you wont see much data here.

Upvotes: 3

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