{"id":3997,"date":"2019-02-04T04:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2022-12-29T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:56:54","slug":"get-email-address-google-plus-api-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/get-email-address-google-plus-api-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a Google user&#8217;s email address after the Google+ API shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer using any part of Google&#8217;s API, you&#8217;ve likely received notices informing you that come March 7, 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/+\/api-shutdown\">Google+ API will be shut down<\/a>. There&#8217;s been some confusion in Google&#8217;s notices that makes it unclear exactly what will still be available after the shutdown, so in light of this confusion, I&#8217;ll show you what we at GMass have done to address the issue, and how we&#8217;ll use Google&#8217;s OAuth2 mechanism to still create accounts and retrieve a user&#8217;s email address after a successful OAuth flow.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s the confusing part?<\/h3>\n<p>In Google&#8217;s earlier notices, anyone that had made a call to people.plus.get received a notice that looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3999 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1311\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web.png 1311w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice1-web-1024x608.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1311px) 100vw, 1311px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days later though, Google clarified that only projects that directly use the scope plus.me would be affected, in this notice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1310\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web.png 1310w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gmass.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-Plus-API-Shutdown-Notice2-web-1024x570.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This notice is still confusing because although it says that only projects that call the <strong>plus.me scope directly<\/strong> are affected, it goes onto say that a project making\u00a0&#8220;any Google+ API calls&#8221; should be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Take GMass for example. GMass\u00a0doesn&#8217;t request the plus.me scope directly, but DOES make a call to a Google+ API method.<\/p>\n<h3>How GMass is addressing the issue<\/h3>\n<p>This is the C# code where we make a call to the Google+ API method <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/+\/web\/api\/rest\/latest\/people\/get\">people.get<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">UserCredential<\/span> credential = <span class=\"s2\">new<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">UserCredential<\/span>(flow, <span class=\"s3\">\"me\"<\/span>, token);\r\nvar plusService = new PlusService(new BaseClientService.Initializer\r\n{\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>HttpClientInitializer = credential,\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>ApplicationName = \"Gmass\"\r\n});\r\nvar person = await plusService.People.Get(\"me\").ExecuteAsync();\r\nstring emailAddress = person.Emails.First().Value;<\/pre>\n<p>So is GMass affected? I&#8217;m not sure. In <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/53717693\/with-google-being-shutdown-is-the-oauth-api-gone-too\/53717793\">this Stack Overflow article<\/a>, the respondent mentions that calls to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/+\/web\/api\/rest\/latest\/people\/get\">people.get<\/a> method are likely to work for years to come, but even he&#8217;s not certain. To be safe, we&#8217;ve decided to request the user&#8217;s email address from the Gmail API rather than the Google+ API. In C#, that looks like:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">UserCredential<\/span> credential = <span class=\"s2\">new<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">UserCredential<\/span>(flow, <span class=\"s3\">\"me\"<\/span>, token);\r\nGmailService<span class=\"s1\"> service = <\/span><span class=\"s2\">new<\/span> GmailService<span class=\"s1\">(<\/span><span class=\"s2\">new<\/span> BaseClientService<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span>Initializer\r\n{\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>HttpClientInitializer = credential,\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>ApplicationName = <span class=\"s3\">\"Gmass\"<\/span>\r\n});\r\n<span class=\"s2\">string<\/span> emailAddress = service.Users.GetProfile(<span class=\"s3\">\"me\"<\/span>).Execute().EmailAddress;<\/pre>\n<p>So there you have it. We are now retrieving the user&#8217;s email address using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/gmail\/api\/v1\/reference\/users\/getProfile\">getProfile<\/a> method which is part of the Gmail API. We are able to do this because one of the scopes that GMass requests is the <strong>https:\/\/mail.google.com API scope<\/strong>. If your project is not a Gmail extension, you likely are not requesting this scope, and may need to <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/24442668\/google-oauth-api-to-get-users-email-address\">find another method to retrieve the user&#8217;s email address<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer using any part of Google&#8217;s API, you&#8217;ve likely received notices informing you that come March 7, 2019, the Google+ API will be shut down.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3462,4253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","category-how-to-guides"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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