retrieve user's email (again)

[TheExcalibur]

Hi,
I've done every thing with Twitter policies to have my website on Twitter's whitelist.
(https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials)
My app tells me it's "OK", I can get the user's email. But when I make this, I can't find any email.
I did this:

$user_infos = $twitter_conn->get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_entities' => true, 'skip_status' => true, 'include_email' => true]);

Have you any suggestion to get it ?
Regards

[abraham]

That looks correct. Make sure the access token was granted after email access was enabled. You might need to revoke access and authorize again.

[TheExcalibur]

I cleared everything on my twitter test account many times and renew the consumer_key and consumer_secret.

Is there any function to get the email or just doing something like $user_infos->email (same way for screen_name) will work ?

[abraham]

I would guess it would just be ->email but I've never used that API so I have no idea.

[TheExcalibur]

ok thanks. If any news, I will inform you right here.
Anyway, thanks for your work. It's help a lot ;)

[SrPatinhas]

@TheExcalibur you get this working? as i saw the user need to have the account verified? could you help me out please? :)

[abraham]

Yes, a Twitter profile will have to have a confirmed email address for this to work. Some users only sign up with their phone number.

[TheExcalibur]

Yes. It works with a verified account only

[abraham]

Note that verified accounts are different from accounts with verified emails. Accounts with verified emails is what matters here.

[SrPatinhas]

@TheExcalibur @abraham so just do something like

$user_infos = $twitter_conn->get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_entities' => true, 'skip_status' => true, 'include_email' => true]);
$user_infos->email

and it will retrieve the email?

[abraham]

Assuming the app has been whitelisted by Twitter to access users email addresses, yes, that looks like it should work.

[austinh]

I can't seem to get the email correctly, I have permission from twitter, and using just the GET RESP API works fine, but when using this API it doesnt seem to work.

[abraham]

What do you mean by "this API"? Which REST API method works and what API method doesn't work?

[dandrits]

Hello @abraham I've tried what @SrPatinhas suggests by invoking $arr=$connection->get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_entities' => true, 'skip_status' => true, 'include_email' => true]);
and then get $arr->email or something but can't get something like email and arr does not bring any data(but those: public 'code' => int 89 public 'message' => string 'Invalid or expired token.') Of cource my app is whitelisted by twitter and can retrieve emails(as a matter of fact app on profile says "Can rear toyw email address" or something like that).
What am I doing wrong? Shall I invoke it right after your suggestion about $my_tweets = $connection->get('statuses/user_timeline', array('screen_name' => $screenname, 'count' => 5));

thx!

[abraham]

If you are getting 'code' => int 89 public 'message' => string 'Invalid or expired token.' then you need to get new credentials for the account.

[dandrits]

Do I have to change my access token or must I change my account's username/password

[abraham]

The accounts access token being used is invalid. You need a new access token.

[dandrits]

OK thanks a lot!!

[dandrits]

@abraham I 've changed the account's token of my app. But the results are the same. I' ve followed the examples about thw api and just after creating a new connection to twitter using my consumer api key/secret using
$connection = new Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth($twitter_CONSUMER_KEY, $twitter_CONSUMER_SECRET, $_SESSION['token'], $_SESSION['token_secret']);
I've received the access token from twitter using:
$access_token = $connection->oauth("oauth/access_token", array("oauth_verifier" => $_REQUEST['oauth_verifier']));
Finally I 've made one get call in order to receive user email like the following:
$user = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_entities' => true, 'skip_status' => true, 'include_email' => true]);
but I'm getting the error described before for invalid token

thank you for the help and your patience! 🍻

[abraham]

It's probably not the app's consumer key/secret that is bad, it's probably the user's access token. Make sure you are following the full authentication process to get a user's access token.

[dandrits]

I'm sorry for my late response. The problem was a firewall issue and now it is solved. Thank you very much for the help! Keep up the great work!! 🍻

[minamoto19]

Just wanted to let people know that the code below doesn't always return the email address even if you are whitelisted and the user's email is verified.
get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_entities' => true, 'skip_status' => true, 'include_email' => true]);
Do not include the parameter values as booleans. Use strings instead. This works every time in my application.
Eg.
get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_email' => 'true']);
Put the parameter's value in double or single quote(depends on your code) to be sent as a string.

[abraham]

Interesting. (string) true yields "1" so I'm guessing some of Twitter's servers are accepting 1 as truthy and some are not. A possible improvement for this library is to iterate parameters and if they are true|false replace them with "true"|"false".

[dandrits]

hhm that's why sometimes I was getting results and some others not,interesting!

[usamaejaz]

Right. I also wasted a lot of time with this issue. Setting true to 'true' (string) gave the expected result. 😮

[minamoto19]

@abraham
I don't think this is a task that has to do with this project.
Its a handle error on twitter part. Or at least they should have state that in their documentation.
I like how light this library is. No need for extra checks.
But after all its your project so you decide.

[abraham]

I think it is an issue the library needs to fix. Twitter explicitly documents true as the expected value (not 1) and because of PHP unexpected coercion Twitter doesn't get the documented parameters. I could add a note to the docs but most people would miss it.

[arifchenko]

Finally, i found the solution for 1.1 version. Find your OAuth.php file, on function from_consumer_and_token, add array value "include_email" => "true" and it has to be quoted on true to parse this as a string, not 1 as a result. Actually, the main thing is to call the API including this parameter. Then you can get email address with $user_info->email command or whatever variables you use. I hope this could help.

[minamoto19]

@arifchenko
We are talking about the current version but even for 1.1 what you suggest seems the wrong way to go.
Basically what you suggest is to hardcore an argument value($parameters).
That way you request email in your every call even if you don't need it.
You can use the $parameters array argument to set "include_email" => "true" when you call from_consumer_and_token function
Please someone correct me, if I'm wrong.

[abraham]

v0.1.1 is a very old version of TwitterOAuth. If you are using it you should upgrade to the latest one. It has a lot of bug fixes and improvements. That being said you shouldn't ever need to call methods outside of TwitterOAuth.php directly.

[abuzant]

@abraham I have noticed a comment that says "if you're app is authorized to get the email, you will get it".. I am using the correct verion of the library and the (string) value for TRUE but still the email is noe being sent back and no errors at all. Everything works great but I am not getting the email, so How do I get my app to be authorized?

Example usage of code:
$user = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", ["include_entities" => 'false', "skip_status" => 'true', "include_email" => 'true']);

[abraham]

See Request a User’s Email Address.

[abuzant]

I can't be more shy of myself. I have been on that page since the morning and never saw that line about white-listing an application. I am so sorry and thank you so much. (thumbsup)

[daniel-seitz]

Trying to figure out how to programatically revoke our app's access since some of our users already granted the access before we were white listed for the email address. The user's experience is better if that is done on the back end. Is there a function in your lib?

The Twitter doc says

Your app will need to regenerate the user access tokens for previously authenticated users to access their email address.

Other than oauth2/invalidate_token - which is the wrong one - I can't find how...

[apuestaya]

finally, solved with this:

$TW_user = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials",['include_email' => "true"]);
Thanks @abraham

[vebinua]

I may still be using the old version but changing the parameter values from boolean to string indeed did the trick.

$getParam = array('include_email' => 'true', 'include_entities' => 'false', 'skip_status' => 'true'); $user = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", $getParam);

Thank you @abraham

[johnross7392]

I have confirmed my email address, checked the request email permission option and added the privacy policy and TOS urls... it even shows can request users email address in the app settings page, but still shows cannot view email address in my auth dialog box.. did i miss anything?

[razorsharpshady]

hey @abraham , please make the change in api for 'true'.
and if possible also add trim filter in access token and consumer secret key.

[deepanchakravarthi]

Hi Abraham, I tried it as per your documentation and comments. I didn't get email address. Could you please let me know - how can I get it? Thank you!

For your info, still I'm getting the error -> [code] => 89 [message] => Invalid or expired token

My Code:
use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;
$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $_SESSION['oauth_token'], $_SESSION['oauth_token_secret']);
$access_token = $connection->oauth("oauth/access_token", array("oauth_verifier" => $_REQUEST['oauth_verifier']));
$params = array('include_email' => 'true', 'include_entities' => 0, 'skip_status' => 1);
$data = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", $params);
print_r($data);
Note: I tried, 'include_email' => 'true', 'include_email' => "true", 'include_email' => '1', 'include_email' => "1", 'include_email' => true, 'include_email' => 1 :)

I have regenerated Consumer Key & Consumer Secret.

[razorsharpshady]

in twitter app settings u need to check on "Request email addresses from users" in Additional permision. and use the library like in screenshot

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[deepanchakravarthi]

@razorsharpshady Thank you for your comments

Kindly check my screenshot

[deepanchakravarthi]

@abraham Regarding your comment, If you are getting 'code' => int 89 public 'message' => string 'Invalid or expired token.' then you need to get new credentials for the account.

Yes I'm getting the same. I regenerated key and secret. But there is no change in response, I can get screen name and user_id using the access token. Could not get email address.. Kindly guide me to get it. Thank you!

[deepanchakravarthi]

Oh my god, finally I solved it. I had been struggling for the past 3 hours. :(

My guys, I hope it helps for you if you get the same issues in the near future. :)

My Code:

(Error code)
use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;
$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $_SESSION['oauth_token'], $_SESSION['oauth_token_secret']);
$access_token = $connection->oauth("oauth/access_token", array("oauth_verifier" => $_REQUEST['oauth_verifier']));

I used oauth_token and oauth_token_secret from access_token.
(Successful Code)
$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $access_token['oauth_token'], $access_token['oauth_token_secret']);
$user = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", ['include_email' => 'true', 'include_entities' => 'false', 'skip_status' => 'true']);
var_dump($user);
$params = array('include_email' => 'true', 'include_entities' => 0, 'skip_status' => 1);
$data = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials", $params);
print_r($data);

It's working.

[razorsharpshady]

@deepanchakravarthi what wrong was u doing?

[deepanchakravarthi]

@razorsharpshady I used oauth_token and oauth_token_secret - session values instead of using access token.