# Cannot get email from api request using access token

**URL:** <https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280>\
**Category:** Friendly Help\
**Created:** [March 23, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280 "2026-03-23T14:57:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreadmaps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@dreadmaps](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/dreadmaps)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280/1 "2026-03-23T14:57:05Z")

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Using access token, it is retrieving all other values needed except the email addresses for each member.

$url = “$BaseUrl/campaigns/$CampaignId/members?page[count]=100&include=currently\_entitled\_tiers,user&fields[member]=full\_name,patron\_status&fields[user]=email,full\_name,like\_count&fields[tier]=title,amount\_cents,discord\_role\_ids”

$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Headers $Headers  
$response.included output only has the full\_name and the like\_count

What gives? Seems like the API is broken in this regard.

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**Author:** ![noertap](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/noertap/32/2868_2.png) [@noertap](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/noertap)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280/2 "2026-03-23T22:28:11Z")

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I’m guessing that you might be user a creator token (one from [Patreon Platform](http://patreon.com/portal) ) with your request. This access token does not have permissions to retrieve `user.email` (see docs [API Reference](https://docs.patreon.com/#user-v2) ). Instead fetch the email via `member.email`.

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**Author:** ![dreadmaps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@dreadmaps](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/dreadmaps)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280/3 "2026-03-24T13:12:42Z")

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That was it - i figured it out yesterday - pretty sure somewhere in the API doc it says to use the user scope - but could be wrong. Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/patreondevelopers/original/2X/0/020dbd06c721b4079bf506660d56ca9bbea79b7a.png) [@system](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/cannot-get-email-from-api-request-using-access-token/11280/4 "2026-09-20T13:13:02Z")

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