Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

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To enable Google authentication in your application, follow these steps:

1. As always, start with the configuration part in my_app/__init__.py, as follows:

app.config["GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID"] = "my google OAuth client ID"app.config["GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET"] = "my google OAuth client secret"app.config["OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE"] = Truefrom my_app.auth.views import google_blueprintapp.register_blueprint(google_blueprint)

In the preceding code snippet, we registered the Google blueprint provided by Flask-Dance with our application for authentication. This blueprint will be created in the views file, which we will take a look at next. Note the additional configuration option, OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE. This is suggested ...