Last Updated: September 30, 2022

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Javascript Google Social Login Bootstrap Button for OAuth

#javascript

#oauth

#social login bootstrap

Purpose

The simplest JavaScript step-by-step guide with full working code (< 15 lines) to create a Social Login Bootstrap Button for Google on any webpage with OAuth.io

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://tome.oauth.io/providers/google/get-user-info

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('YOUR_OAUTH_KEY');
 // Use popup for oauth
 OAuth.popup('google').then(google => {
 console.log('google:',google);
 // Retrieves user data from oauth provider
 // Prompts 'welcome' message with User's email on successful login
 // #me() is a convenient method to retrieve user data without requiring you
 // to know which OAuth provider url to call
 google.me().then(data => {
 console.log('me data:', data);
 alert('Google says your email is:' + data.email + ".\nView browser 'Console Log' for more details");
 });
 // Retrieves user data from OAuth provider by using #get() and
 // OAuth provider url
 google.get('/plus/v1/people/me').then(data => {
 console.log('self data:', data);
 })
 });
})

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

Create Google app
Create OAuth.io account
Link Google app keys to oauth.io account
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, add the domain name of the webpage where you will the social login button into ‘Domain & URL whitelist’

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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 accesstype to ‘online’. From your Google app page, copy the Google ‘Client ID’ and 'Client Secret' that you noted earlier into 'clientid', 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/12/