Get Twitter Full Name and Email

[Albert Stephan]

Meteor accounts gets the full name and email of the user when they log in with Facebook, but it only gets the screen name when the user logs in with Twitter. Is there a way to get the full information or do I have to manually request it with a separate API?

Thanks,

Albert

[David Burles]

Hi Albert, 

From memory twitter does not provide any way to get the users email address

Dave

[Chanpory Rith]

David is correct, you can't get email addresses from Twitter API.

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[Albert Stephan]

But how about full name? I've logged into sites with Twitter and they got my full name. Does Meteor accounts not pull that info?

[Chanpory Rith]

I believe when you sign in with Twitter in Meteor, the full name get's automatically added to the profile property of the user object. Is this not happening?

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Albert Stephan <alst...@gmail.com> wrote:

But how about full name? I've logged into sites with Twitter and they got my full name. Does Meteor accounts not pull that info?

[Chanpory Rith]

Also, make sure you are using the accounts-twitter package.

[Albert Stephan]

It does indeed, thanks for your help. I was overriding that behavior by running a custom Accounts.onCreateUser function.

From the documentation http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_oncreateuser

The default create user function simply copies options.profile into the new user document. Calling onCreateUser overrides the default hook. This can only be called once.

Albert