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Facebook Graph API, how to get users email?

I am playing with Facebook API and trying to get available information from it.

$facebook = new Facebook(array('appId'  => 'id', 'secret' => 'key'));  
print_r($facebook->api('/my_username_or_id'));

which prints out:

Array ( [id] => my_id [name] => whole_name [first_name] => first_name [last_name] => last_name [link] => url_to_profile [username] => username [gender] => gener [locale] => es_LA )

But not email.
When I go to Facebook developer test site and set up my username or ID, I get something like this:

{
  "id": "id", 
  "name": "name", 
  "first_name": "first_name", 
  "last_name": "last_name", 
  "link": "link", 
  "username": "username", 
  "gender": "male", 
  "timezone": 2, 
  "locale": "en_US", 
  "verified": true, 
  "updated_time": "2012-07-16T13:00:04+0000"
}

Pretty similar information like in the first case.

But again – I cannot get the email address. I’ve tried also

print_r($facebook->api('/my_username_or_id?fields=email'));

and the same also on FB developer site, but again without success…

Is there any way to get email address from ID/username?

Answer 1

To get an email address for a user, you need to have a user access token or have them authenticated in an app with the email permission granted.

This gives you the email for that user only. You can’t get a user’s friend’s email address this way.

This prevents spammers from harvesting emails from Facebook.