Retrieving custom user attributes from Google sign in

[paul-i6]

Hi,

I’ve set up some custom attributes on my Google user’s according to these docs. I am now trying to retrieve these attributes with Auth0 when I sign in using my Google account in a web app.

I have tried adding scopes for metadata but I can’t seem to get anything back. Is this possible or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I couldn’t find much documentation on this so if anyone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[jerdog]

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Set scope based on user metadata

At this time you can use rules to implement custom authorization policies where a specific logic check will influence the scopes issued in the access token. For an example of this see this section of the reference documentation. In your particular case, the check would be based on the role contained in user profile metadata. An important thing to note is that you should store this information as part of app_metadata; DO NOT store it as part of user_metadata. The reason is the user_metadata can …

[paul-i6]

Thanks for the reply, that makes things a little clearer.

So is the only solution to create a custom rule that will query the Google user API to retrieve these custom attributes or am I over complicating it?

[jerdog]

As I understand what @jmangelo is saying in that post, that should work for you.