Passport-Facebook authentication is not providing email for all Facebook accounts Passport-Facebook authentication is not providing email for all Facebook accounts javascript javascript

Passport-Facebook authentication is not providing email for all Facebook accounts


Make sure these two things are in your code:

  passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({            clientID: 'CLIENT_ID',            clientSecret: 'CLIENT_SECRET',            callbackURL: "http://www.example.com/auth/facebook/callback"            passReqToCallback : true,            profileFields: ['id', 'emails', 'name'] //This        },

and this:

app.get('/connect/facebook', passport.authorize('facebook', { scope : ['email'] }));

This gives you access to the following:

  • profile.id
  • profile.name.givenName
  • profile.name.familyName
  • profile.emails

The last one being an array, so use profile.emails[0].value to get the first email address of the user.

As shamim reza pointed out, you might want to check if profile.emails !== undefined because the property only exists if the user has at least one verified email address.

As Weft pointed out, you might have to use the property email instead of emails.


When you are authenticating use something similar to this. You need to use add 'email' in the scope when you authenticate.

app.get('/auth/facebook',passport.authenticate('facebook', { scope: ['email']}),    function(req, res){});

That has worked for me.

Here were a few links that helped me out.

https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-facebook/issues/11https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-facebook#how-do-i-ask-a-user-for-additional-permissions


I would like to add more information here.

While adding profileFields: ['emails'] while creating FacebookStrategy and passport.authorize('facebook', { scope : ['email'] }) solves issue for most of the users.

There are other possible reasons where you will not get user's email after authentication.

  • No e-mail address on account
  • No confirmed e-mail address on account
  • No verified e-mail address on account
  • User entered a security checkpoint which required them to reconfirmtheir e-mail address and they have not yet done so
  • User's e-mail address is unreachable

​you need to make sure that your user does not have any of the issues listed above. more information can be found https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1802930019968631/