Retrieving photo from Facebook using passport-facebook

Question

I am able to retrieve basic user information via passport-facebook, following the below code and saving in mongodb:

app.get(\"/auth/facebook\", passport.authenti         


        

Answer 1

In addition to answer of your question - you don't have to do it that way. As you mentioned you can define the required attributes for Facebook profile:

  clientID: "...",
  clientSecret: "...",
  callbackURL: "...",
  profileFields: ['id', 'displayName', 'name', 'gender', ..., 'photos']

What than you can do is just simply grab the value of the given attribute. Let's say you want to make an attribute that will hold this value:

picture: profile.photos ? profile.photos[0].value : '/img/faces/unknown-user-pic.jpg'

This proved to be a better solution since some users or sometimes the value of username may be undefined.

I hope you find this useful too,

Thank you.