OAuth with Dailymotion

Dailymotion is a video platform where people watch, upload, and share videos. Publishers and creators also use it to distribute videos to their own sites with the Dailymotion Player and to manage their channels through its API.

How does the integration work?

You can use the Dailymotion OAuth adapter in Appwrite Auth to let users sign in with their Dailymotion account. This fits video tools, creator dashboards, and companion apps for Dailymotion channels. The session stores Dailymotion's access token as providerAccessToken, so your server can call the Dailymotion API on the user's behalf.

Appwrite uses Dailymotion's authorization code flow on api.dailymotion.com and requests the userinfo and email scopes. It stores the user's name, email, and avatar, and marks the email as verified only when the profile's verified field is true.

How to implement

To implement the Dailymotion OAuth adapter in Appwrite Auth, there are several steps you must complete:

Step 1: Create a Dailymotion API key

Log in to Dailymotion Studio with an Owner or Admin account and go to Settings > Account > API keys > Create API key.

Choose Public API key. Dailymotion uses public keys when users sign in with their own account, and the api.dailymotion.com endpoints that Appwrite calls require one. Give the key a title and description, and temporarily enter https://temporary-endpoint.com/ as the Callback URL. You'll replace it with the URI from Appwrite in the next step.

Click Create and save the API key and API secret. Dailymotion shows the secret only once.

Step 2: Add Dailymotion OAuth adapter to your Appwrite project

For this step, you must create an account on Appwrite Cloud or self-host Appwrite if you haven't already. In your Appwrite project, head over to the Auth page, open the Settings tab, and click Dailymotion under the OAuth2 Providers section.

Paste the key's credentials into the API Key and API Secret fields, turn the provider on, and click Update.

Copy the Redirect URI shown in the form. On Appwrite Cloud it looks like https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1/account/sessions/oauth2/callback/dailymotion/<PROJECT_ID>, but always copy the exact value from the Console. Update your API key's Callback URL in Dailymotion Studio with it. Dailymotion rejects sign-in requests whose redirect URI doesn't match the key's callback URL.

Step 3: Test the provider

Start a session from your app with the OAuthProvider.Dailymotion value. With the Web SDK:

import { Client, Account, OAuthProvider } from 'appwrite';

const client = new Client()
    .setEndpoint('https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1')
    .setProject('<PROJECT_ID>');

const account = new Account(client);

account.createOAuth2Session({
    provider: OAuthProvider.Dailymotion,
    success: 'https://example.com/success',
    failure: 'https://example.com/failed',
});

Add your app's domain as a web platform in your Appwrite project so Appwrite accepts the success and failure URLs. Follow the OAuth 2 login flow for other platforms and for server-side sign-in.

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