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My web application uses google user-id for authentication. How do I fetch the currently signed-in user's profile picture/badge in javascript?

Note: I only have the access to the user's email address and id. I don't have the profile id.

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Sounds like you're using the Users API, which doesn't offer access to profile info: Access to user's name and profile picture in the AppEngine's app.

Depending on which kind of users your app is dealing with (any gmail user, Google Apps users, Google+ users, etc) using other APIs could be attempted instead: Google+ API, Directory API, etc.

Another possibility would be switching to some other authentication method offering access to profile info. See What is the difference between Google identity toolkit, Google OAauth and Google+ sign in

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