# Cannot get current user's email

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-get-current-users-email/131575>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [April 17, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-get-current-users-email/131575 "2025-04-17T01:36:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![ccerra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@ccerra](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ccerra)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-get-current-users-email/131575/1 "2025-04-17T01:36:19Z")

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**API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)**  
There’s not an entry for this in the Zoom users API page. `v2/users/me`

**Description**  
I need my user-managed, “General App” Zoom app to communicate the current Zoom user’s email address to my backend in a secure way (like, we don’t want it to be easy for someone to spoof someone else’s email address)

To accomplish this, I am trying to do in-client authentication, and following the outline in this Zoom example app: [zoom/zoomapps-advancedsample-react](https://github.com/zoom/zoomapps-advancedsample-react). I expected to be able to use the access token after hitting `https://zoom.us/oauth/token` to get the current user’s email with a request to `https://zoom.us/v2/users/me`.

However, the access token scopes are `user:read:email zoomapp:inmeeting`, and using that token to request the current user’s email returns an error `Invalid access token, does not contain scopes:[user:read:user:admin, user:read:user]`.

**Scopes/Settings Stuff**  
Again, this is a user-managed, general app intended to be used for Zoom Contact Center.

For configuring the app:

- I selected all capabilities in “Zoom App SDK”
- I selected all scopes

On my user account, I went to [App Marketplace](https://marketplace.zoom.us/user/installed) and selected whatever under “Shared Access Permissions” to make it now say `Authorized` (I feel like this is unrelated)

**Error?**

- I’m getting an access token from `https://zoom.us/oauth/token`, and it doesn’t have the right scopes.
  - or, it does have the scope `user:read:email`, but I have no idea how to use that to get the user’s email, if that’s even possible.

- using the access token to try to view the current user’s user (GET to `https://zoom.us/v2/users/me`) the response has the message: `Invalid access token, does not contain scopes:[user:read:user:admin, user:read:user].`

**How To Reproduce**

- Have user-managed, general app intended to be used for Zoom Contact Center.
- select all Zoom SDK APIs and scopes for the app.
- as a normal user, log in to zoom workplace and open the app from the “Apps” tab
- click button that starts authorize() → onAuthorized flow
- on backend, make request:

```auto
Method:POST 
URL:https://zoom.us/oauth/token?code=[zoomAuthCode from onAuthorized's event.code]
    &code_verifier=[code challenge generated for authorize()]
    &grant_type=authorization_code
    &redirect_uri=[our redirect url]

Headers:
  Authorization: "Basic [encoded user-managed app credentials]"
  Content-Type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

```

- get response, which has `scope: user:read:email zoomapp:inmeeting`
- send GET request to `https://zoom.us/v2/users/me` with headers `Content-Type: “application/json”, Authorization: "Bearer [zoom’s access token from the previous post request]
- the response has `message: "Invalid access token, does not contain scopes:[user:read:user:admin, user:read:user]"`

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**Author:** ![expertswho](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/expertswho/32/60945_2.png) [@expertswho](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/expertswho)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-get-current-users-email/131575/2 "2025-04-17T21:26:20Z")

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hi @ccerra  
welcome to the forum

Please don’t just select all scopes. Select the ones you need.

So you need to check the scopes for your app

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/e/b/eb3ddf62ab63b8f81f135749fc0d5b69ac74241d.png)  
add these and then save the app.

You will then need to reconnect and authorise to pick up the permissions.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-get-current-users-email/131575/3 "2025-04-18T21:27:04Z")

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