Strategy to authenticate with Google via OAuth2 in OmniAuth.
Get your API key at: https://code.google.com/apis/console/ Note the Client ID and the Client Secret.
For more details, read the Google docs: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2
Add to your Gemfile
:
gem 'omniauth-google-oauth2'
Then bundle install
.
Here's an example for adding the middleware to a Rails app in config/initializers/omniauth.rb
:
Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :google_oauth2, ENV['GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID'], ENV['GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET']
end
OmniAuth.config.allowed_request_methods = %i[get]
You can now access the OmniAuth Google OAuth2 URL: /auth/google_oauth2
For more examples please check out examples/omni_auth.rb
Using Devise? Skip the above and jump down to the Devise section! After setting up the provider via Devise, you can reference the configurations below.
NOTE: While developing your application, if you change the scope in the initializer you will need to restart your app server. Remember that either the 'email' or 'profile' scope is required!
You can configure several options, which you pass in to the provider
method via a hash:
scope
: A comma-separated list of permissions you want to request from the user. See the Google OAuth 2.0 Playground for a full list of available permissions. Caveats:
email
and profile
scopes are used by default. By defining your own scope
, you override these defaults, but Google requires at least one of email
or profile
, so make sure to add at least one of them to your scope!https://www.googleapis.com/auth/
do not need that prefix specified. So while you can use the smaller scope books
since that permission starts with the mentioned prefix, you should use the full scope URL https://docs.google.com/feeds/
to access a user's docs, for example.redirect_uri
: Override the redirect_uri used by the gem.
prompt
: A space-delimited list of string values that determines whether the user is re-prompted for authentication and/or consent. Possible values are:
none
: No authentication or consent pages will be displayed; it will return an error if the user is not already authenticated and has not pre-configured consent for the requested scopes. This can be used as a method to check for existing authentication and/or consent.consent
: The user will always be prompted for consent, even if they have previously allowed access a given set of scopes.select_account
: The user will always be prompted to select a user account. This allows a user who has multiple current account sessions to select one amongst them.If no value is specified, the user only sees the authentication page if they are not logged in and only sees the consent page the first time they authorize a given set of scopes.
image_aspect_ratio
: The shape of the user's profile picture. Possible values are:
original
: Picture maintains its original aspect ratio.square
: Picture presents equal width and height.Defaults to original
.
image_size
: The size of the user's profile picture. The image returned will have width equal to the given value and variable height, according to the image_aspect_ratio
chosen. Additionally, a picture with specific width and height can be requested by setting this option to a hash with width
and height
as keys. If only width
or height
is specified, a picture whose width or height is closest to the requested size and requested aspect ratio will be returned. Defaults to the original width and height of the picture.
name
: The name of the strategy. The default name is google_oauth2
but it can be changed to any value, for example google
. The OmniAuth URL will thus change to /auth/google
and the provider
key in the auth hash will then return google
.
access_type
: Defaults to offline
, so a refresh token is sent to be used when the user is not present at the browser. Can be set to online
. More about offline access
hd
: (Optional) Limit sign-in to a particular Google Apps hosted domain. This can be simply string 'domain.com'
or an array %w(domain.com domain.co)
. More information at: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenIDConnect#hd-param
jwt_leeway
: Number of seconds passed to the JWT library as leeway. Defaults to 60 seconds. Note this only works if you use jwt 2.1, as the leeway option was removed in later versions.
skip_jwt
: Skip JWT processing. This is for users who are seeing JWT decoding errors with the iat
field. Always try adjusting the leeway before disabling JWT processing.
login_hint
: When your app knows which user it is trying to authenticate, it can provide this parameter as a hint to the authentication server. Passing this hint suppresses the account chooser and either pre-fill the email box on the sign-in form, or select the proper session (if the user is using multiple sign-in), which can help you avoid problems that occur if your app logs in the wrong user account. The value can be either an email address or the sub string, which is equivalent to the user's Google+ ID.
include_granted_scopes
: If this is provided with the value true, and the authorization request is granted, the authorization will include any previous authorizations granted to this user/application combination for other scopes. See Google's Incremental Authorization for additional details.
enable_granular_consent
: If this is provided with the value true, users can choose to only grant access to specific data. See Google's How to handle granular permissions guide for additional details.
openid_realm
: Set the OpenID realm value, to allow upgrading from OpenID based authentication to OAuth 2 based authentication. When this is set correctly an openid_id
value will be set in ['extra']['id_info']
in the authentication hash with the value of the user's OpenID ID URL.
provider_ignores_state
: You will need to set this to true
when using the One-time Code Flow
below. In this flow there is no server side redirect that would set the state.
overridable_authorize_options
: By default, all authorize_options
can be overridden with request parameters. You can restrict the behavior by using this option.
Here's an example of a possible configuration where the strategy name is changed, the user is asked for extra permissions, the user is always prompted to select their account when logging in and the user's profile picture is returned as a thumbnail:
Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :google_oauth2, ENV['GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID'], ENV['GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET'],
{
scope: 'email, profile, http://gdata.youtube.com',
prompt: 'select_account',
image_aspect_ratio: 'square',
image_size: 50
}
end
Here's an example of an authentication hash available in the callback by accessing request.env['omniauth.auth']
:
{
"provider" => "google_oauth2",
"uid" => "100000000000000000000",
"info" => {
"name" => "John Smith",
"email" => "john@example.com",
"first_name" => "John",
"last_name" => "Smith",
"image" => "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/photo.jpg",
"urls" => {
"google" => "https://plus.google.com/+JohnSmith"
}
},
"credentials" => {
"token" => "TOKEN",
"refresh_token" => "REFRESH_TOKEN",
"expires_at" => 1496120719,
"expires" => true
},
"extra" => {
"id_token" => "ID_TOKEN",
"id_info" => {
"azp" => "APP_ID",
"aud" => "APP_ID",
"sub" => "100000000000000000000",
"email" => "john@example.com",
"email_verified" => true,
"at_hash" => "HK6E_P6Dh8Y93mRNtsDB1Q",
"iss" => "accounts.google.com",
"iat" => 1496117119,
"exp" => 1496120719
},
"raw_info" => {
"sub" => "100000000000000000000",
"name" => "John Smith",
"given_name" => "John",
"family_name" => "Smith",
"profile" => "https://plus.google.com/+JohnSmith",
"picture" => "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"email" => "john@example.com",
"email_verified" => "true",
"locale" => "en",
"hd" => "company.com"
}
}
}
First define your application id and secret in config/initializers/devise.rb
. Do not use the snippet mentioned in the Usage section.
Configuration options can be passed as the last parameter here as key/value pairs.
config.omniauth :google_oauth2, 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID', 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET', {}
NOTE: If you are using this gem with devise with above snippet in config/initializers/devise.rb
then do not create config/initializers/omniauth.rb
which will conflict with devise configurations.
Then add the following to 'config/routes.rb' so the callback routes are defined.
devise_for :users, controllers: { omniauth_callbacks: 'users/omniauth_callbacks' }
Make sure your model is omniauthable. Generally this is "/app/models/user.rb"
devise :omniauthable, omniauth_providers: [:google_oauth2]
Then make sure your callbacks controller is setup.
# app/controllers/users/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb:
class Users::OmniauthCallbacksController < Devise::OmniauthCallbacksController
def google_oauth2
# You need to implement the method below in your model (e.g. app/models/user.rb)
@user = User.from_omniauth(request.env['omniauth.auth'])
if @user.persisted?
flash[:notice] = I18n.t 'devise.omniauth_callbacks.success', kind: 'Google'
sign_in_and_redirect @user, event: :authentication
else
session['devise.google_data'] = request.env['omniauth.auth'].except('extra') # Removing extra as it can overflow some session stores
redirect_to new_user_registration_url, alert: @user.errors.full_messages.join("\n")
end
end
end
and bind to or create the user
# app/models/user.rb
def self.from_omniauth(access_token)
data = access_token.info
user = User.where(email: data['email']).first
# Uncomment the section below if you want users to be created if they don't exist
# unless user
# user = User.create(name: data['name'],
# email: data['email'],
# password: Devise.friendly_token[0,20]
# )
# end
user
end
For your views you can login using:
<%# omniauth-google-oauth2 1.0.x uses OmniAuth 2 and requires using HTTP Post to initiate authentication: %>
<%= link_to "Sign in with Google", user_google_oauth2_omniauth_authorize_path, method: :post %>
<%# omniauth-google-oauth2 prior 1.0.0: %>
<%= link_to "Sign in with Google", user_google_oauth2_omniauth_authorize_path %>
<%# Devise prior 4.1.0: %>
<%= link_to "Sign in with Google", user_omniauth_authorize_path(:google_oauth2) %>
An overview is available at https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/wiki/OmniAuth:-Overview
Google describes the One-time Code Flow here. This hybrid authentication flow has significant functional and security advantages over a pure server-side or pure client-side flow. The following steps occur in this flow:
This flow is immune to replay attacks, and conveys no useful information to a man in the middle.
The omniauth-google-oauth2 gem supports this mode of operation when provider_ignores_state
is set to true
. Implementors simply need to add the appropriate JavaScript to their web page, and they can take advantage of this flow. An example JavaScript snippet follows.
// Basic hybrid auth example following the pattern at:
// https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/reference
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js?onload=init" async defer></script>
...
function init() {
gapi.load('auth2', function() {
// Ready.
$('.google-login-button').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
gapi.auth2.authorize({
client_id: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
cookie_policy: 'single_host_origin',
scope: 'email profile',
response_type: 'code'
}, function(response) {
if (response && !response.error) {
// google authentication succeed, now post data to server.
jQuery.ajax({type: 'POST', url: '/auth/google_oauth2/callback', data: response,
success: function(data) {
// response from server
}
});
} else {
// google authentication failed
}
});
});
});
};
The documentation at https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/ios/offline-access specifies the _REDIRECTURI to be either a set value or an EMPTY string for mobile logins to work. Else, you will run into _redirect_urimismatch errors.
In that case, ensure to send an additional parameter redirect_uri=
(empty string) to the /auth/google_oauth2/callback
URL from your mobile device.
If you're making POST requests to /auth/google_oauth2/callback
from another domain, then you need to make sure 'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'
header is included with your request, otherwise your server might respond with OAuth2::Error, : Invalid Value
error.
redirect_uri_mismatch
error (See Issue #365)If you are struggling with a persistent redirect_uri_mismatch
, you can instead pass the access_token
from getAuthResponse
directly to the auth/google_oauth2/callback
endpoint, like so:
// Initialize the GoogleAuth object
let googleAuth;
gapi.load('client:auth2', async () => {
await gapi.client.init({ scope: '...', client_id: '...' });
googleAuth = gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance();
});
// Call this when the Google Sign In button is clicked
async function signInGoogle() {
const googleUser = await googleAuth.signIn(); // wait for the user to authorize through the modal
const { access_token } = googleUser.getAuthResponse();
const data = new FormData();
data.append('access_token', access_token);
const response = await api.post('/auth/google_oauth2/callback', data)
console.log(response);
}
If you're making a GET resquests from another domain using access_token
.
axios
.get(
'url(path to your callback}',
{ params: { access_token: 'token' } },
headers....
)
If you're making a POST resquests from another domain using access_token
.
axios
.post(
'url(path to your callback}',
{ access_token: 'token' },
headers....
)
--OR--
axios
.post(
'url(path to your callback}',
null,
{
params: {
access_token: 'token'
},
headers....
}
)
redirect_uri
in RailsJust set the full_host
in OmniAuth based on the Rails.env.
# config/initializers/omniauth.rb
OmniAuth.config.full_host = Rails.env.production? ? 'https://domain.com' : 'http://localhost:3000'
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