oAuth - how to get user's ExternalEmail

Question

A customer of ours has asked us to build an oAuth Login option into our product from their Brightspace platform.

We have the oAuth wired up, and I can use the oAuth code to call /users/whoami but this only gives me the user's Brightspace id (Identifier) - I need to get the user's ExternalEmail which I don't appear to be able to get anywhere except for /users/{userId}, and while I have the userId, this user does't have permission to call /users/{userId}.

Is there something like /users/whoami that gives the exteranalEmail or way for users to get their own /users/{userId}?

Connor.D.131 · Answer

Hi @Alex.V.58 , I'm interested in this too. The only way around things that I've found is to enable permissions for the "Manage Users" tool (in order to call /users/{userId}). Has there been any progress made toward allowing a user to access their own external email address via the API, without needing to enable the ability to see all user email addresses?

Thanks!

Alex.V.58 · Answer

I will send you a DM!

Retrieve.D.984 · Answer

@Alex.V.58 can you connect me with support please? I don't have a solution to this problem yet. I am hoping there is a setting that opens up api permission to call /users/{userId} for one's self.