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How To Add Google Social Login Button

February 7, 2018 by oauthio Leave a comment

Purpose

Hi there! In this post, we’ll show you how easy it is to add a Google login button to your app or website 🙂

Customers have told us that this is the simplest Javascript step-by-step guide, with full working code (< 15 lines), to create a Social Login Button for Google!

Outcome

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Fully Functional Code

To demonstrate the simplicity of this solution, let us look at the final code we create. You can try out the code instantly here: https://jsfiddle.net/a7Ljj18e/1/

HTML

<a id="google-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-google">
  <i class="fa fa-google"></i> Sign in with Google
</a>

CSS

None

JS

$('#google-button').on('click', function() {
  // Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
  OAuth.initialize('TMRAkcJl9nNercaeP5tFhqPMSLA');
  // Use popup for OAuth
  OAuth.popup('google').then(google => {
    console.log(google);
    // Retrieves user data from oauth provider
    console.log(google.me());
  });
})

External Resources

*OAuth.io: https://oauth.io * jQuery: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js * oauth.io JS: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js * Bootstrap: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css * Font-Aweseome: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css * Bootstrap-social: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css

General Steps

  1. Create Google app
  2. Create OAuth.io account
  3. Link Google app keys to oauth.io account
  4. Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

1. Create Google app

Go to https://console.developers.google.com and sign in or create a new account.

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Click on ‘Create Project’ on top left.

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Name your project and click ‘Create’

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Check that you’re on the project you just created and then click on ‘Credentials’

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Select OAuth consent screen and enter email address and a product name. Click Save.

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Click on the Credentials tab and then click ‘Create credentials’ and select ‘OAuth client ID’ from the dropdown menu.

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Select ‘Web application’ and then enter https://oauth.io and https://oauth.io/auth for ‘Authorized JavaScript origins’ and Authorized redirect URLs, respectively. Click Create.

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You now have your client ID and client secret which you will add to your OAuth.io dashboard.

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2. Create oauth.io Account

Create an account on OAuth.io.

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On the main dashboard, click on ‘Integrated APIs’ on the left menu.

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On the ‘Integration APIs’ dashboard, click ‘Add APIs’.

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Select ‘Google’ as the OAuth provider that you want to add.

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3. Link Google app keys to oauth.io account

Set access_type to ‘online’. From your Google app page, copy the Google ‘Client ID’ and ‘Client Secret’ that you noted earlier into ‘client_id’, and ‘client_secret’ fields, respectively, select your desired scope and then click ‘Save’.

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Click on ‘Try Auth’ to see if you have configured oauth.io to access your Google app correctly.

4. Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

Host the code below on your server. If you have no server yet, you can test the code here: https://jsfiddle.net/a7Ljj18e/1/

<html>
  <header>
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css"></script>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css">
  </header>

  <body>
    <a id="google-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-google">
      <i class="fa fa-google"></i> Sign in with google
    </a>

    <script>
      $('#google-button').on('click', function() {
        // Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
        OAuth.initialize('YOUR_OAUTH_KEY');
        // Use popup for OAuth
        OAuth.popup('google').then(google => {
          console.log(google);
          // Retrieves user data from oauth provider
          console.log(google.me());
        });
      })
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

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