How to get details of current user from Google APIs - google-oauth

I am sure that I am being very blind or stupid somewhere along the way but I have looked for this answer for a while and haven't come up with anything!
I have been working on getting my actionscript app working with Google's Oauth mechanisms which is all working great now but I can't for the life of me work out how to get details on the currently logged in user.
I want to get get the user's name (alias or full name I don't care) and a thumbnail url to display at the top of my app to make it clear who is logged in.
I have looked in general google api docs, drive docs and youTube docs and not found it anywhere...
I'm sure this is a really easy answer for someone to give!
Thanks

Add this to the scope -
https://www.googleapis.com/
auth/userinfo.profile
And after authorization is
done, get the information
from - https://
www.googleapis.com/oauth2/
v1/userinfo?alt=json
It has loads of stuff -
including name, public profile
url, gender, photo etc.
Source :
stackoverflow.com/questions/7130648/get-user-info-via-google-api

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It's my first question, so I hope do it correctly.
I have been looking for in the searcher and google but I didn't find solution about my problem.
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