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Authentication with Google in NodeJS

Uddesh on October 02, 2019

While working on OAuth for a long time. I have finally understood the flow. But a few days back I had no idea how OAuth works and I was very frustr...

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abinhho • Mar 17 '20

I got this error (Mar 2020)

400. That’s an error.

Error: invalid_request
Custom scheme URIs are not allowed for 'WEB' client type.

Request Details
response_type=code
redirect_uri=testauth.com:3000
scope=email profile
client_id=xxx-rm7s51vmr320brk5b5mrhopgma0e65o9.apps.googleusercontent.com

Thomas Jinwoo Min • Dec 18 '19

Thank you for the helpful article.

I found some trivial errors in getting value from OAuth2Data with latest google_key.json.
Below is the fix.

const CLIENT_ID = OAuth2Data.web.client_id;
const CLIENT_SECRET = OAuth2Data.web.client_secret;
const REDIRECT_URL = OAuth2Data.web.redirect_uris;

Uddesh • Dec 19 '19

I glad it helped you. An error could be due to the change in the structure of credentials but I'll take look on it.

Ananay Arora • Dec 21 '19

Thomas, thanks for the fix! This fix is indeed correct and is necessary for the app to function.

Rizwan Alam • Jun 25 '20

thanks uddesh,,it helped me,,,thanks man for this...
best part is that it is in very very simple language.
i am developing an app in flutter and backend with node js,,
now could u plz guide me that how i can integrate this with my app.
it is running fine in terminal and browser,,but how i can connect this functionality with my app

Ritesh Patel • Jan 31 '21

Hiii.... Uddesh ... This is very useful to me.... and it is successfully working for me... But now i want to get my gmail User Name (first name, last name) and email and profile pic...I have used this "gmail.users.getProfile()"...But this gives me only email addeess and other info..But it does not return my gmail account First name, last Name, profile pic url, i don't know how to do it ... do you have any idea ?

Please help me ..

Thank you

vaibh36 • Dec 27 '19

I am able to get the data for the fitness api My problem is that i am hitting the same api using an android phone for an app based on react-native.
I am not able to do res.redirect(url) on the mobile device. Please suggest.

Appreciate your support!