Get google people profile API does not return birthday and gender key values

Question

GPPSignIn *signIn;

In my iOS app I am setting scope as:

signIn.scopes = @[@"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login",
                  @"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me",
                  @"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.profile.emails.read", 
                  @"email",
                  @"profile",
                  @"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.birthday.read"];

Also,

signIn.shouldFetchGoogleUserEmail = YES;
signIn.shouldFetchGooglePlusUser = YES;

And trying to get access_token from Google. which I get and send to server.

Now, my server is doing this:

client = OAuth2::Client.new('app_id', 'app_secret')
access_token = OAuth2::AccessToken.new(client, access_token)
profile_api_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me'
response = access_token.get(profile_api_url)
google_profile_res_body = JSON.parse(response.body)

Here, google_profile_res_body is having many properties but not birthday and gender.

Anyone have any idea? Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

Cheers, Rahul

Answer 1

Likely the problem is that the birthday and gender is only returned if the fields have been set to have a public visibility. Private visibility fields won't be returned.

If you use the Google People API which is different than the G+ People API, you should be able to get the private birthday with https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.birthday.read scope. Unfortunately there is no private scope for gender.

See documentation of Google People API at https://developers.google.com/people/ for more info.