How to get an email address from users on Twitter4J?

Question

I'm glad that now we can get the email address from users now using "Twitter4J".

But, my problem is that I can’t use a function that brings email from users. My server (based on Spring) used Twitter4J with a "maven dependency". I use the method described on the Twitter4J main page ( http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html ):

<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.twitter4j</groupId> <artifactId>twitter4j-core</artifactId> <version>[4.0,)</version> </dependency> ... </dependencies> 

However, this method cannot bring your latest feature, which brings an email even with SNAPSHOT Build Version '. I think this method cannot bring the latest version of Twitter4J, which was recently uploaded to github.

How can I use the getEmail() function using Twitter4J in my application?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Firstly, you need to get your application in the white list from the documentation :

Requesting users email address requires your application to be included in the white list of Twitter.

If you get permission, you need to configure ConfigurationBuilder wtih setIncludeEmailEnabled(true)

 ConfigurationBuilder builder = new ConfigurationBuilder(); builder.setOAuthConsumerKey(cKey); builder.setOAuthConsumerSecret(cSecret); builder.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken.getToken()); builder.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(accessToken.getTokenSecret()); builder.setIncludeEmailEnabled(true); 

And then you can receive user mail after checking credentials

 User user = twitter.verifyCredentials(); System.out.print(user.getEmail()); 

As Patrick Denny points out, this method works on October 4, 2016 on Twitter4j 4.0.5

So, if you have an older version and need to receive an email, please update