Laravel Socialite
Introduction
In addition to typical, form based authentication, Laravel also provides a simple, convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers using Laravel Socialite. Socialite currently supports authentication with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.
Adapters for other platforms are listed at the community driven Socialite Providers website.
Upgrading Socialite
When upgrading to a new major version of Socialite, it's important that you carefully review the upgrade guide.
Installation
To get started with Socialite, use Composer to add the package to your project's dependencies:
composer require laravel/socialite
Configuration
Before using Socialite, you will also need to add credentials for the OAuth services your application utilizes. These credentials should be placed in your config/services.php
configuration file, and should use the key facebook
, twitter
, linkedin
, google
, github
, gitlab
or bitbucket
, depending on the providers your application requires. For example:
'github' => [
'client_id' => env('GITHUB_CLIENT_ID'),
'client_secret' => env('GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET'),
'redirect' => 'http://your-callback-url',
],
If the redirect
option contains a relative path, it will automatically be resolved to a fully qualified URL.
Routing
Next, you are ready to authenticate users! You will need two routes: one for redirecting the user to the OAuth provider, and another for receiving the callback from the provider after authentication. We will access Socialite using the Socialite
facade:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Socialite;
class LoginController extends Controller
{
/**
* Redirect the user to the GitHub authentication page.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function redirectToProvider()
{
return Socialite::driver('github')->redirect();
}
/**
* Obtain the user information from GitHub.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function handleProviderCallback()
{
$user = Socialite::driver('github')->user();
// $user->token;
}
}
The redirect
method takes care of sending the user to the OAuth provider, while the user
method will read the incoming request and retrieve the user's information from the provider.
You will need to define routes to your controller methods:
Route::get('login/github', 'Auth\LoginController@redirectToProvider');
Route::get('login/github/callback', 'Auth\LoginController@handleProviderCallback');
Optional Parameters
A number of OAuth providers support optional parameters in the redirect request. To include any optional parameters in the request, call the with
method with an associative array:
return Socialite::driver('google')
->with(['hd' => 'example.com'])
->redirect();
When using the with
method, be careful not to pass any reserved keywords such as state
or response_type
.
Access Scopes
Before redirecting the user, you may also add additional "scopes" on the request using the scopes
method. This method will merge all existing scopes with the ones you supply:
return Socialite::driver('github')
->scopes(['read:user', 'public_repo'])
->redirect();
You can overwrite all existing scopes using the setScopes
method:
return Socialite::driver('github')
->setScopes(['read:user', 'public_repo'])
->redirect();
Stateless Authentication
The stateless
method may be used to disable session state verification. This is useful when adding social authentication to an API:
return Socialite::driver('google')->stateless()->user();
Stateless authentication is not available for the Twitter driver, which uses OAuth 1.0 for authentication.
Retrieving User Details
Once you have a user instance, you can grab a few more details about the user:
$user = Socialite::driver('github')->user();
// OAuth Two Providers
$token = $user->token;
$refreshToken = $user->refreshToken; // not always provided
$expiresIn = $user->expiresIn;
// OAuth One Providers
$token = $user->token;
$tokenSecret = $user->tokenSecret;
// All Providers
$user->getId();
$user->getNickname();
$user->getName();
$user->getEmail();
$user->getAvatar();
Retrieving User Details From A Token (OAuth2)
If you already have a valid access token for a user, you can retrieve their details using the userFromToken
method:
$user = Socialite::driver('github')->userFromToken($token);
Retrieving User Details From A Token And Secret (OAuth1)
If you already have a valid pair of token / secret for a user, you can retrieve their details using the userFromTokenAndSecret
method:
$user = Socialite::driver('twitter')->userFromTokenAndSecret($token, $secret);