Meteor.loginWithFacebook - how to add email to user profile?

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##Situation
I’ve got a basic OAuth login with Facebook.
My click event for this is fairly simple:

Template.account_form_login.events({
	'click .account_login_facebook':function(event){
		Meteor.loginWithFacebook({requestPermissions: [ 'email' ]}, function(err){
			if(!err) {
				Router.go('/');
			}
		});
		event.preventDefault();
	}
});

Problem

The {requestPermissions: [ 'email' ]} works as expected.
But the Users email is never added to the user.profile, so I don’t have access to it later.

Main Question:
How can I attach the email to the profile?

Extra Question:
I’m also a little bit confused by the Guide on the Meteor.users collection.

When I login with either email or facebook my user object looks very different.
In the guide the user object has many more fields.

After Login with facebook:

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Thanks for any kind of help!

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For facebook you can access it in on the server in Account.onCreateUser() as such.

   Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
      var email = user.services.facebook.email
         //add to the user object, I just add it here as such

         user.emails = [{address: email, verified: true}];
       return user
    }

You can add any field you want in this method. it will trigger whenever an account is created, email, facebook or otherwise, so it might be wise to put a check in there to pull the appropriate email from a specific service.

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Uh, thanks, that’s awesome!
Exactly what I needed! :slight_smile: