A python package that helps getting the user info from social apps
Project description
Social User Info
A python package that helps getting the user info from social apps
Installation
Required Python Version >= 3
pip install social-user-info
Supported Social Media
- Github
How it works?
The package has a method APIService.get_user_info(access_token, auth_source)
.
This method accepts the access_token and auth_source and returns the user info corresponding to the given access token
Usage
Get your google access token:
- Navigate to: https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
- In Step 1, select Google OAuth2 API v2 and add
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
andhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
. Click on Authorize APIs - Login/Select the account you want the access token of
- In Step 2, Click on Exchange Authorization Code for Tokens
- Get the
access_token
from the returned JSON
Get you facebook access token
- Read through this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
Get you github access token
- Login to your github account
- Navigate to settings
- Navigate to developer settings at the bottom left
- Navigate to personal access token
- Generate a new Token
- Get the
access_token
by clicking on Generate Token
Obtain user info
from social_user_info.social_user_info import APIService
APIService.get_user_info(access_token={access_token_from_above_step}, auth_source='google')
APIService.get_user_info(access_token={access_token_obtained_from_facebook}, auth_source='facebook')
APIService.get_user_info(access_token={access_token_obtained_from_github}, auth_source='github')
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