python-social-auth not getting correct Google OAuth2 details

Question

I want to login a user using the python-social-auth functionality for Google Plus signin in Django. When logging in from my website, everything works fine and the c

Answer 1

I finally figured it out myself. According to this article in the Android's Google Plus documentation, I also need to request the plus.profile.emails.read scope when making the request in the Android app. Once I added this, the python-social-auth code managed to store the email properly in the uid fields. This allows it to recognize the same user whether logging in from the website or the app, which is what I needed. Here's the scopes string I use:

String scopes = "oauth2:" + Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN + " https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.profile.emails.read";

However, the extra_data field still contains the values I mentioned above. I believe this is due to needing to request offline access as well, which would allow Google Plus to pass the missing fields back to python-django-auth. More details can be found here.