Google-api-javascript-client: Missing profile information from GSuite account.

[phyllisstein]

Hey folks! This is not wildly urgent, but I've been working on implementing authentication through Google and I'm having some trouble grabbing the profile-scope data for a GSuite domain. I'm not sure whether the issue is that GSuite or my application is misconfigured, so I was hoping you could provide some troubleshooting guidance.

The flow in the app is this. On the frontend, I call gapi.auth2.authorize to retrieve an ID token and POST it to my backend:

gapi.auth2.authorize(
  {
    client_id: '...',
    hosted_domain: 'ignota.media',
    response_type: 'id_token',
    scope: 'email profile',
  },
  (response: any) => {
    if (response.error) {
      return
    }

    this.props.onSignInGoogleAccount(response.id_token)
  },
)

On the backend, I pass the ID token to https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/tokeninfo to validate it:

def token_info
  @token_info ||= begin
                    ti = conn.get '/oauth2/v3/tokeninfo', id_token: id_token
                    body = JSON.parse(ti.body).with_indifferent_access
                    raise ArgumentError, 'Invalid hosted domain.' unless body[:hd] == 'ignota.media'
                    body
                  end
end

After walking through the signup flow, I get a valid token back---but according to the tokeninfo endpoint, it only includes email and email_verified alongside the usual JWT claims:

{
 "azp": "...",
 "aud": "...",
 "sub": "108825333075518568948",
 "hd": "ignota.media",
 "email": "[email protected]",
 "email_verified": "true",
 "exp": "1523788138",
 "iss": "accounts.google.com",
 "jti": "1f171bc654823ed4170a624fc867d97e24af88da",
 "iat": "1523784538",
 "alg": "RS256",
 "kid": "3b547886ff85a3428df4f61db73c1c23982a928e"
}

The documentation at https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/backend-auth seems to suggest that GETting the tokeninfo endpoint should include name, picture, and locale as well, but try as I may I can't get them into the JWT payload. My GSuite account should---I believe---have all three configured through the "Users" panel of the admin interface.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[dylanscott]

I was running into this too, and found that I had to add permission to the response_type, and openid to the scope in the authorize call.

[phyllisstein]

@dylanscott That did the trick! Thanks so much for sharing your solution. I'mma leave this open as a nudge to update the docs, but it seems to work great.

[antony]

Found this trying to diagnose an error which occurred as of today, with previously working code.

Because it might be helpful to people who find this issue in the future , as of today, Google's auth response now only includes a picture url if you have explicitly set a profile picture.