Tip: Saving Google OAuth Profile Pictures

[Ali]

Hi all,

This is a comment, not a question.

By default, the scaffold app using Google OAuth stores the user's first name, last name, and email in the auth_user table—but not the profile picture. You can include the profile picture URL with just two lines of code added to common.py:

1. Add the following line here (adds a new field to auth_user):

auth = Auth(session, db, define_tables=False)

auth.extra_auth_user_fields = [Field('profile_picture', 'text',

                                     readable=False, writable=False)]

2. Add the following line here:

    from py4web.utils.auth_plugins.oauth2google import OAuth2Google  # TESTED

    OAuth2Google.maps['profile_picture'] = 'picture'

Once the profile picture URL is stored in auth_user, you can easily use it along with other user information.

-ali

[Massimo]

added to docs

[Ali]

Thank you!

I wonder when the changes will be available on py4web.com.

Also, a minor point. It may not be clear where the word "here" in the sentence "Add the following line here (adds a new field to auth_user):" refers to in the documentation. It might be a good idea to remove this sentence altogether and add a comment in the following code section indicating that the new line adds a new field to auth_user.