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Patreon

Follow these steps to add Patreon as a social sign-in provider to your project using the Ory CLI:

  1. Create a Patreon OAuth2 client.

  2. In the client configuration, set the redirect URI to:

    https://{project.slug}.projects.oryapis.com/self-service/methods/oidc/callback/patreon
  3. Create a Jsonnet code snippet to map the desired claims to the Ory Identity schema.

    local claims = std.extVar('claims');
    {
    identity: {
    traits: {
    [if "email" in claims then "email" else null]: claims.email,
    },
    },
    }
    tip

    Ory Identities supports the following Patreon claims: Subject, Email, Name, GivenName, FamilyName, LastName, Picture. To learn more, read Patreon OAuth docs.

    danger

    Don't save secrets such as API keys, credentials, or personal data directly in Jsonnet code snippets. Jsonnet code snippets used for data mapping aren't stored in an encrypted format in Ory Network.

  4. Encode the Jsonnet snippet with Base64 or host it under an URL accessible to Ory Network.

    cat your-data-mapping.jsonnet | base64
  5. Download the Ory Identities config from your project and save it to a file:

    ## List all available projects
    ory list projects

    ## Get config
    ory get identity-config {project-id} --format yaml > identity-config.yaml
  6. Add the social sign-in provider configuration to the downloaded config. Add the Jsonnet snippet with mappings as a Base64 string or provide an URL to the file.

    selfservice:
    methods:
    oidc:
    enabled: true
    config:
    providers:
    - id: patreon # this is `<provider-id>` in the Authorization callback URL. DO NOT CHANGE IT ONCE SET!
    provider: patreon
    client_id: .... # Replace this with the OAuth2 Client ID provided by Patreon
    client_secret: .... # Replace this with the OAuth2 Client Secret provided by Patreon
    mapper_url: "base64://{YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_JSONNET_HERE}"
    # Alternatively, use an URL:
    # mapper_url: https://storage.googleapis.com/abc-cde-prd/9cac9717f007808bf17f22ce7f4295c739604b183f05ac4afb4
    scope:
    - identity
    - identity[email]
    # Visit Patreon documentation for a full list of supported scopes: https://docs.patreon.com/#scopes
  7. Update the Ory Identities configuration using the file you worked with:

    ory update identity-config {project-id} --file identity-config.yaml

Troubleshooting

When you add a social sign-in provider, you can encounter common problems such as:

  • Redirect URI mismatch
  • Redirect loops during registration
  • Domain verification issues

To troubleshoot those issues, read Social sign-in troubleshooting.