linkSocial with custom OAuth providers
Hey all!!
My goal is to let already logged in users "link" integrations so i can do api calls with their OAuth links such as geting google calendar data etc etc....
I don't necessarily want them to be able to login with them just link their already existing account, i think this is what
linkSocial can be used for?
But the issue im battling is; having an issue with types when using custom providers and calling linkSocial:
any help and guidance would be appreciated!!
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It's not supported yet. But there is already a PR. Should be released soon.
any temp fix i can do or is the functionality just not there?
also any link to the PR?
you can copy the PR implementation but we'll see if it can be released with the next patch release.
great thanks
am i approaching this the right way with better auth
as i just want them to be linked and not really a way to login?
Wait if you're not planing to log them in that's not supported yet. My recommendtion currently is to implement it yourself with some utility libraries.
But it's planned to be added at some point
i tried to have a look for some sort of hook but i must be blind?
Yeah there is no hook. You could still potentially use linking but for example if the user is signed in to their calendar with different email or something it'll log them in to a different account and so on. You should implement it yourself.
can i use better-auth to help me here?
sorry first day using better auth i come from lucia
using lucia i would be creating a route to deal with this after the redirect from the oauth login
Yeah I'm saying there isn't much better auth can do currently. Better Auth assumes all social linking as another way to sign the user in.
But if their account being linked as a way to sign-in isn't a problem for you, you can still use linking. And use the stored Access token to fetch the user data.
hmm ok
ty
i did see
disableIdTokenSignIn:
Disable provider from allowing users to sign in with this provider with an id token sent from the client.
im just not sure how to go about doing the integration part, i mean as you say i guess i could just make my own implementation but seems cumbersome
unless im making it more complex in my head than it really is?let's say if you're using a social provider that's already supported, you can just use linkSocial to link their account. And you should be done with it. To handle incase the user is signed in with different account/email on the provider, you can enable linking with different email.
You're right it's a bit cumbersome not hard tho
thanks for the help!