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Generic Providers

A Generic Provider allows you to add social sign-in to your app with any provider that's OpenID Connect Certified (such as Ory Hydra!).

If the social sign-in provider you're looking for isn't in our list of preconfigured providers, chances are you can add them as a generic, give an extra 2 fields of configuration.

Would you prefer to see your provider as a standard option? Let us know!

You will need the following values to set up a generic provider, keep them handy:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
  • Issuer URL - This is the OpenID Connect Server URL, the URL the provider issues tokens from.

To create a Generic Provider, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Ory Cloud Console and select Social Sign-in.
  2. At the bottom of the page, click Add A Generic Provider
  3. Copy the Redirect URI to the configuration of your chose Provider.
  4. As a Provider Name, choose whichever label you prefer. This is used for display purposes only.
  5. Add your Client ID, Client Secret and Issuer URL.
  6. Click Save Configuration.
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The Scopes and Data mapping fields are optional - you don't have to configure them to start using the social sign-in provider.

Additional configuration​

When adding a generic social sign-in provider, you can customize the integration by defining the OAuth scopes Ory requests from the provider and by setting up custom data mappings.

Scopes​

The Scopes section allows you to define the OAuth scopes Ory requests from the sign-in provider. Defining scopes allows you to interact with the provider's APIs on behalf of the user, or to access additional user data, which is exposed as claims for data mapping.

Leave this field blank to use the default scopes.

Data Mapping​

The Data Mapping section allows you to map the data returned by the sign-in provider to traits as defined in the identity schema. While optional, we highly recommend you add it. The user experience will be worse if left blank, as a user will have to supply their email address through an additional custom step after completing the OAuth flow.

To define the mapping, create a Jsonnet code snippet. Read the OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Credentials documentation for more details.