Get user email using Youtube API

Question

How can I get authenticated user email using Youtube API?

I tried using channels.list:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=brandin

Answer 1

To get a user's email address, you'll need to get their permission first during OAuth. Google's OAuth has a scope specifically for this. I'm not familiar with the Node.js youtube-api module, but you'll have to get it to include an additional OAuth scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email. Then the email address will be available in the response from a request to http://googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo.

This post may be helpful: http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2013/06/node-and-google-oauth/