Python Oauth2 - login with Google
After a long time, and many hours spent gone to waste, I gave up with OAuth2 since it is difficult to configure, and all I need is to log a user in. The following code should help someone who needs to do something similar, and can be customized. All I did was follow the instructions on forming the urls and such here -> https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login
I made two views (for anyone not using Django - pages) and made a link to the first one:This page I called login/google and made a link to it from the login page.
def google_login(request): token_request_uri = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth" response_type = "code" client_id = XXXXXX-your_client_id redirect_uri = "http://mysite/login/google/auth" scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email" url = "{token_request_uri}?response_type={response_type}&client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri={redirect_uri}&scope={scope}".format( token_request_uri = token_request_uri, response_type = response_type, client_id = client_id, redirect_uri = redirect_uri, scope = scope) return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
The above code redirected to the second page (this page must be defined as a redirect uri in the google app definitions).I called this page login/google/auth:
def google_authenticate(request): parser = Http() login_failed_url = '/' if 'error' in request.GET or 'code' not in request.GET: return HttpResponseRedirect('{loginfailed}'.format(loginfailed = login_failed_url)) access_token_uri = 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token' redirect_uri = "http://mysite/login/google/auth" params = urllib.urlencode({ 'code':request.GET['code'], 'redirect_uri':redirect_uri, 'client_id':XXXXX_your_google_key, 'client_secret':XXXXX_your_google_secret, 'grant_type':'authorization_code' }) headers={'content-type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'} resp, content = parser.request(access_token_uri, method = 'POST', body = params, headers = headers) token_data = jsonDecode(content) resp, content = parser.request("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo?access_token={accessToken}".format(accessToken=token_data['access_token'])) #this gets the google profile!! google_profile = jsonDecode(content) #log the user in--> #HERE YOU LOG THE USER IN, OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT #THEN REDIRECT TO PROTECTED PAGE return HttpResponseRedirect('/dashboard')
I really hope this helps people out there, and saves them the hours I wasted. Comments on the code are more than welcome!