twitter api get user email

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I am curious to know how to authenticate the user with twitter and after successful login, i need the email of the user... how can it be done?

Heard that twitter does not support openid.... any alternate solution ?

Well, finally I have decided to explicitly ask the users for their email, after successful authentication. — shasi kanth, Mar 04 '14 at 14:09
Hi @Shashi : I am also getting the same problem. I got all the data except email. I asked my question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36284336/not-getting-email-after-login-through-twitter-api-yii2 . If you know the solution, please help me. — Nana Partykar, Mar 29 '16 at 14:00

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '15 at 09:44

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Just to update this issue, it is now possible (from April 2015).

You can send a support ticket to Twitter to whitelist your app to make it possible to ask for an email. Then, after an user connects their account, you need to make a GET request to verify credentials with the "include_email" option set to true.

It is explained in more detail in the second link.

answered Nov 23 '15 at 09:44

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Hi, I sent support ticket to twitter and i got email stating "*Request Email Access Granted.*" I followed step given by them. But, even though i am not able to see logged in user's `email`. Each useful data coming except `email`. Do you have any idea regarding this. I asked my question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36284336/not-getting-email-after-login-through-twitter-api-yii2. Please help me. *Thanks* – Nana Partykar Mar 30 '16 at 07:59

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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Check out this article and try this search.

Twitter supports OAuth, and I am myself having trouble with it (I am writing a Python script app). A switch to xAuth is possible.

"Mobile and desktop applications are also given the opportunity to use xAuth, a means to exchange a login & password for an access token. To use xAuth, send a request to api@twitter.com with plenty of details about your application and why xAuth is the best choice for it." - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Jan 05 '11 at 05:58

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Thanks for your reply... it is useful. It seems that it is not possible to fetch the user's email with twitter.... (and hence i think stackoverflow has not included twitter in their login... just kidding). – shasi kanth Jan 05 '11 at 06:18

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Late answer, but I hope it will help someone.

There is no way to obtain the email from the API.

See the doc there : Twitter doc

twitter api get user email

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