Email from Vkontakte social connection

[giovannilaperna]

How to get the email on an user accessing my website using Vkontakte social connection?
I found this and this but still I can get a solution.
Thank you!

[dan.woda]

Hi @giovannilaperna

It looks like the second post you linked shows how to set up a custom social connection which will allow you to request the email.

Enrich profile with Email for Vkontakte

Rules won’t let you intercept the OAuth2 conversation between Auth0 and vK, so you won’t be able to fix the default VK connection behavior using rules. I believe it should be possible to get the email using a custom social connection though, by: Requesting an email scope In the user profile function, use ctx.email to get the email address from the token response. Have you tried the above?

Were you able to try this method?

[giovannilaperna]

Hi,

I tried with the following but didn’t work:

context.accessToken[namespace + 'email'] = context.email;

I have the following scopes:

openid profile email offline_access

context.email does not exist accordingly to your documentation.

Any suggest?

This is crucial for me since 1/3 of my users will be using Vkontakte to login.

[giovannilaperna]

I’m now trying to set up a custom social connection but for some reason it fails.
I contacted vKontakte support for some help because I always get:

error=invalid_request&error_description=Invalid%20user%20id

I don’t know what invalid user id means.

[giovannilaperna]

This is solved.

In case someone needs it, the settings and code for Vkontakte custom social connection to get the user email are:

Authorization URL: https://oauth.vk.com/authorize
Token URL : https://oauth.vk.com/access_token
Scope: email
Fetch User Profile Script:

function fetchUserProfile(accessToken, context, callback){
      const profile = {
        id: context.user_id,
        email: context.email
      };
callback (null, profile);
}

[dan.woda]

Thanks for posting your solution!