social-user-info 1.0.2

A python package that helps getting the user info from social apps

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

• Google
• Facebook
• 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 and https://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')