google-extract-emails.js

/**
 * Helper function to get the library with access to the google plus api.
 */
function getGooglePlusApi(auth) {
  return google.plus({ version: 'v1', auth });
}

/**
 * Extract the email and id of the google account from the "code" parameter.
 */
function getGoogleAccountFromCode(code) {
  
  // get the auth "tokens" from the request
  const data = await auth.getToken(code);
  const tokens = data.tokens;
  
  // add the tokens to the google api so we have access to the account
  const auth = createConnection();
  auth.setCredentials(tokens);
  
  // connect to google plus - need this to get the user's email
  const plus = getGooglePlusApi(auth);
  const me = await plus.people.get({ userId: 'me' });
  
  // get the google id and email
  const userGoogleId = me.data.id;
  const userGoogleEmail = me.data.emails && me.data.emails.length && me.data.emails[0].value;

  // return so we can login or sign up the user
  return {
    id: userGoogleId,
    email: userGoogleEmail,
    tokens: tokens, // you can save these to the user if you ever want to get their details without making them log in again
  };
}

Hey Jack - When this code executes i get the error "ReferenceError: auth is not defined" - where is auth meant to have been defined?

I'm getting same error as stevan and can't get to find what is going wrong

await is a reserved word

Hey Jack - When this code executes i get the error "ReferenceError: auth is not defined" - where is auth meant to have been defined?

const auth = createConnection();
put this before line number 14

Hi I am getting error on the below line
const data = await auth.getToken(code);

await can not be used... how to fix it?