Google Auth With Token

Google auth with token helps you to easily create google authentication available for your users with idToken. It uses the official google-auth-library library to execute the actions. You can get it working in seconds in your application. EASY!

Latest version

v5.0.1

released November 15, 2025

npm install strapi-google-auth-with-token

🛡️ Google One Tap Auth in Strapi

Google auth with token helps you to easily create Google authentication for your users using the Sign In With Google button. It uses the official google-auth-library to execute the actions and verify the token. You can get it working in seconds 🫰.

Google makes One Tap authentication for smooth authentication with just one click, no need for redirection URL

Google One Tap Example

Features

Official Google APIs integration
One Tap support using idToken One Tap
Uses Strapi default user-permission collection
JWT Authentication
Sanitized response
Highly secure
Saves user first and last name in Strapi user entity
Saves user Gmail profile picture in Strapi user entity

⚙️ Installation in Strapi app

Install the plugin using npm or yarn

npm install strapi-google-auth-with-token
# or
yarn add strapi-google-auth-with-token

Add the following lines of code in the file: config/plugins.js or config/plugins.ts

module.exports = {
  'strapi-google-auth-with-token': {
    enabled: true,
    fullNameField: 'fullName', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user full name
    firstNameField: 'firstName', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user first name
    lastNameField: 'lastName',  // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user last name
    pictureField: 'profileImage', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user Gmail picture
    pictureFolderName: 'profiles', // (Optional) The name of the folder where user Gmail picture will be stored
    // PS: You can use only some of them or none of them
    // BTW: You need to create these attributes in the Strapi user entity if you provide them in this config
  },
};

// or in typescript for config/plugins.ts
export default () => ({
  "strapi-google-auth-with-token": {
    enabled: true,
    fullNameField: 'fullName', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user full name
    firstNameField: 'firstName', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user first name
    lastNameField: 'lastName',  // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user last name
    pictureField: 'profileImage', // (Optional) This is the attribute name in Strapi user entity where you will save the user Gmail picture
    pictureFolderName: 'profiles', // (Optional) The name of the folder where user Gmail picture will be stored
    // PS: You can use only some of them or none of them
    // BTW: You need to create these attributes in the Strapi user entity if you provide them in this config
  },
});

🔑 Configuration (Get Google Client Id)

Create a Google project from the Google Cloud Console.
Create OAuth Consent Screen (Nav Menu -> APIs & Services -> OAuth consent screen).
Go to Credentials, click create credentials -> OAuth Client ID
Put the CLIENT_ID in the Strapi Content Management page > Google Credential, and save it.

How to add google client id

❓ How to use

Get User JWT token and user data

{
  method: 'POST',
  path: 'STRAPI_BACKEND_URL/strapi-google-auth-with-token/auth', // like: http://localhost:1337/strapi-google-auth-with-token/auth
  data: {
    token: idToken // get the token from the Google sign-in button
  }
}

🐞 Report Bugs/Issues

Any bugs/issues you may face can be submitted as issues in the GitHub repo.