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Add GitHub Identity Provider​

Add GitHub Identity Provider

Request Body required
    name GitHub will be used as default, if no name is provided

    GitHub will be used as default, if no name is provided

    clientId string

    Client id generated by GitHub

    clientSecret string

    Client secret generated by the GitHub

    scopes string[]

    The scopes requested by ZITADEL during the request to GitHub

    providerOptions object
    isLinkingAllowed boolean

    Enable if users should be able to link an existing ZITADEL user with an external account.

    isCreationAllowed boolean

    Enable if users should be able to create a new account in ZITADEL when using an external account.

    isAutoCreation boolean

    Enable if a new account in ZITADEL should be created automatically when login with an external account.

    isAutoUpdate boolean

    Enable if a the ZITADEL account fields should be updated automatically on each login.

Responses

A successful response.

Schema
    details object
    sequence uint64

    on read: the sequence of the last event reduced by the projection

    on manipulation: the timestamp of the event(s) added by the manipulation

    creationDate date-time

    on read: the timestamp of the first event of the object

    on create: the timestamp of the event(s) added by the manipulation

    changeDate date-time

    on read: the timestamp of the last event reduced by the projection

    on manipulation: the

    resourceOwner resource_owner is the organization an object belongs to
    id string
POST /idps/github

Authorization

name: OAuth2type: oauth2scopes: openid,urn:zitadel:iam:org:project:id:zitadel:audflows: {
  "authorizationCode": {
    "authorizationUrl": "$CUSTOM-DOMAIN/oauth/v2/authorize",
    "tokenUrl": "$CUSTOM-DOMAIN/oauth/v2/token",
    "scopes": {
      "openid": "openid",
      "urn:zitadel:iam:org:project:id:zitadel:aud": "urn:zitadel:iam:org:project:id:zitadel:aud"
    }
  }
}

Request

Base URL
https://$CUSTOM-DOMAIN/admin/v1
Bearer Token
Content-Type
Body required
{

  "name": "GitHub",

  "clientId": "client-id",

  "clientSecret": "secret",

  "scopes": [

    "openid",

    "profile",

    "email"

  ],

  "providerOptions": {

    "isLinkingAllowed": true,

    "isCreationAllowed": true,

    "isAutoCreation": true,

    "isAutoUpdate": true

  }

}
Accept
curl / cURL
curl -L -X POST 'https://$CUSTOM-DOMAIN/admin/v1/idps/github' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>' \
--data-raw '{
  "name": "GitHub",
  "clientId": "client-id",
  "clientSecret": "secret",
  "scopes": [
    "openid",
    "profile",
    "email"
  ],
  "providerOptions": {
    "isLinkingAllowed": true,
    "isCreationAllowed": true,
    "isAutoCreation": true,
    "isAutoUpdate": true
  }
}'