Retrieving profile picture from google and facebook in python-social-auth

Question

How can I retrieve profile picture and date of birth from google and facebook using python-social-auth by extending pipeline? I've read that I can make functions to do so and set path to them but I don't know the attribute names that I must retrieve. Please help!

Answer 1

To get avatars from social login, you need create a pipeline.py file in your app and add this lines to settings.py:

SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = (

    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_details',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_uid',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.auth_allowed',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_user',
    'social.pipeline.user.get_username',
    'social.pipeline.user.create_user',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.associate_user',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.load_extra_data',
    'social.pipeline.user.user_details',
    'apps.users.pipeline.get_avatar', # This is the path of your pipeline.py
    #and get_avatar is the function.
)

and later add this content to your pipeline.py file

def get_avatar(backend, strategy, details, response,
        user=None, *args, **kwargs):
    url = None
    if backend.name == 'facebook':
        url = "http://graph.facebook.com/%s/picture?type=large"%response['id']
    if backend.name == 'twitter':
        url = response.get('profile_image_url', '').replace('_normal','')
    if backend.name == 'google-oauth2':
        url = response['image'].get('url')
        ext = url.split('.')[-1]
    if url:
        user.avatar = url
        user.save()