Facebook SDK for Python - Get user email

Question

Prerequisite

• My Facebook application have permissions to get user email
• I've checked that getting user email with Javascript is working fine
• Server has non-expired access token of user

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Goal

• Now, I'd like to do same task on server side with pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk

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Problem

• Succeed to get name and id of user, but email is not included
• I'd like to get email together

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Code

import facebook

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token='CAA...DZD')

graph.get_object(id='me')
# result : {u'name': u'Username', u'id': u'123456789'}

graph.get_object(id='me?fields=email,id,name')
# Error : facebook.GraphAPIError: An active access token must be used to query information about the current user

Answer 1

You can try this code:

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token)
profile = graph.get_object('me')
args = {'fields' : 'id,name,email', }
profile = graph.get_object('me', **args)