Chrome extension identity.email empty

Question

I am trying to get email and id of user through chrome identity api.

I am doing this

  chrome.identity.getProfileUserInfo(function(userinfo){
    console.log("userinfo",userinfo);
    email=userinfo.email;
    uniqueId=userinfo.id;
  });

I have specified identity permission and have added https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email in scopes.

User is logged in through chrome.identity.getAuthToken and I have access token.

console.log("userinfo",userinfo); returns userinfo Object {email: "", id: ""}

Answer 1

In addition to having the identity.email permission, as posted in the related Chrome issue for this subject, users must have their profile syncing turned on under chrome://settings -> People -> Sync for their ID and email to show up using chrome.identity.getProfileUserInfo.

Answer 2

The getProfileUserInfo documentation says:

• email: Empty if the user is not signed in or the identity.email manifest permission is not specified.
• id: Empty if the user is not signed in or (in M41+) the identity.email manifest permission is not specified.

Edit manifest.json to include both permissions:

"permissions": ["identity", "identity.email"]