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Überauth GitHub
GitHub OAuth2 strategy for Überauth.
Installation
Setup your application at GitHub Developer.
Add
:ueberauth_github
to your list of dependencies inmix.exs
:def deps do [{:ueberauth_github, "~> 0.7"}] end
Add the strategy to your applications:
def application do [applications: [:ueberauth_github]] end
Add GitHub to your Überauth configuration:
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth, providers: [ github: {Ueberauth.Strategy.Github, []} ]
Update your provider configuration:
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth.Strategy.Github.OAuth, client_id: System.get_env("GITHUB_CLIENT_ID"), client_secret: System.get_env("GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET")
Or, to read the client credentials at runtime:
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth.Strategy.Github.OAuth, client_id: {:system, "GITHUB_CLIENT_ID"}, client_secret: {:system, "GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET"}
Include the Überauth plug in your router:
defmodule MyApp.Router do use MyApp.Web, :router pipeline :browser do plug Ueberauth ... end end
Create the request and callback routes if you haven't already:
scope "/auth", MyApp do pipe_through :browser get "/:provider", AuthController, :request get "/:provider/callback", AuthController, :callback end
Your controller needs to implement callbacks to deal with
Ueberauth.Auth
andUeberauth.Failure
responses.
For an example implementation see the Überauth Example application.
Calling
Depending on the configured url you can initiate the request through:
/auth/github
Or with options:
/auth/github?scope=user,public_repo
By default the requested scope is "user,public_repo". This provides both read and write access to the GitHub user profile details and public repos. For a read-only scope, either use "user:email" or an empty scope "". See more at GitHub's OAuth Documentation. Scope can be configured either explicitly as a scope
query value on the request path or in your configuration:
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth,
providers: [
github: {Ueberauth.Strategy.Github, [default_scope: "user,public_repo,notifications"]}
]
It is also possible to disable the sending of the redirect_uri
to GitHub. This is particularly useful
when your production application sits behind a proxy that handles SSL connections. In this case,
the redirect_uri
sent by Ueberauth
will start with http
instead of https
, and if you configured
your GitHub OAuth application's callback URL to use HTTPS, GitHub will throw an uri_missmatch
error.
To prevent Ueberauth
from sending the redirect_uri
, you should add the following to your configuration:
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth,
providers: [
github: {Ueberauth.Strategy.Github, [send_redirect_uri: false]}
]
Private Emails
Github now allows you to keep your email address private. If you don't mind that you won't know a users email address you can specify allow_private_emails
. This will set the users email as [email protected]
.
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth,
providers: [
github: {Ueberauth.Strategy.Github, [allow_private_emails: true]}
]
License
Please see LICENSE for licensing details.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the ueberauth_github README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.