Authenticate Using Yahoo on Apple Platforms

You can let your users authenticate with Firebase using OAuth providers like Yahoo by integrating generic OAuth Login into your app using the Firebase SDK to carry out the end to end sign-in flow.

Before you begin

To sign in users using Yahoo accounts, you must first enable Yahoo as a sign-in provider for your Firebase project:

  1. Add Firebase to your Apple project.
  2. In the Firebase console, open the Auth section.
  3. On the Sign in method tab, enable the Yahoo provider.
  4. Add the Client ID and Client Secret from that provider's developer console to the provider configuration:
    1. To register a Yahoo OAuth client, follow the Yahoo developer documentation on registering a web application with Yahoo.

      Be sure to select the two OpenID Connect API permissions: profile and email.

    2. When registering apps with these providers, be sure to register the *.firebaseapp.com domain for your project as the redirect domain for your app.
  5. Click Save.

Handle the sign-in flow with the Firebase SDK

To handle the sign-in flow with the Firebase Apple platforms SDK, follow these steps:

  1. Add custom URL schemes to your Xcode project:

    1. Open your project configuration: double-click the project name in the left tree view. Select your app from the TARGETS section, then select the Info tab, and expand the URL Types section.
    2. Click the + button, and add your Encoded App ID as a URL scheme. You can find your Encoded App ID on the General Settings page of the Firebase console, in the section for your iOS app. Leave the other fields blank.

      When completed, your config should look something similar to the following (but with your application-specific values):

      Screenshot of Xcode's custom URL scheme setup interface

  2. Create an instance of an OAuthProvider using the provider ID yahoo.com.

    Swift

    var provider = OAuthProvider(providerID: "yahoo.com")
        

    Objective-C

    FIROAuthProvider *provider = [FIROAuthProvider providerWithProviderID:@"yahoo.com"];
        
  3. Optional: Specify additional custom OAuth parameters that you want to send with the OAuth request.

    Swift

    provider.customParameters = [
    "prompt": "login",
    "language": "fr"
    ]
        

    Objective-C

    [provider setCustomParameters:@{@"prompt": @"login", @"language": @"fr"}];
        

    For the parameters Yahoo supports, see the Yahoo OAuth documentation. Note that you can't pass Firebase-required parameters with setCustomParameters. These parameters are client_id, redirect_uri, response_type, scope and state.

  4. Optional: Specify additional OAuth 2.0 scopes beyond profile and email that you want to request from the authentication provider. If your application requires access to private user data from Yahoo APIs, you'll need to request permissions to Yahoo APIs under API Permissions in the Yahoo developer console. Requested OAuth scopes must be exact matches to the preconfigured ones in the app's API permissions. For example if, read/write access is requested to user contacts and preconfigured in the app's API permissions, sdct-w has to be passed instead of the readonly OAuth scope sdct-r. Otherwise, the flow will fail and an error would be shown to the end user.

    Swift

    // Request access to Yahoo Mail API.
    // Request read/write access to user contacts.
    // This must be preconfigured in the app's API permissions.
    provider.scopes = ["mail-r", "sdct-w"]
        

    Objective-C

    // Request access to Yahoo Mail API.
    // Request read/write access to user contacts.
    // This must be preconfigured in the app's API permissions.
    [provider setScopes:@[@"mail-r", @"sdct-w"]];
        

    To learn more, refer to the Yahoo scopes documentation.

  5. Optional: If you want to customize the way your app presents the SFSafariViewController or UIWebView when displaying the reCAPTCHA to the user, create a custom class that conforms to the AuthUIDelegate protocol, and pass it to credentialWithUIDelegate.

  6. Authenticate with Firebase using the OAuth provider object.

    Swift

    provider.getCredentialWith(nil) { credential, error in
    if error != nil {
    // Handle error.
    }
    if credential != nil {
    Auth().signIn(with: credential) { authResult, error in
      if error != nil {
        // Handle error.
      }
      // User is signed in.
      // IdP data available in authResult.additionalUserInfo.profile.
      // Yahoo OAuth access token can also be retrieved by:
      // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.accessToken
      // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
      // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.idToken
    }
    }
    }
        

    Objective-C

    [provider getCredentialWithUIDelegate:nil
                           completion:^(FIRAuthCredential *_Nullable credential, NSError *_Nullable error) {
    if (error) {
    // Handle error.
    }
    if (credential) {
    [[FIRAuth auth] signInWithCredential:credential
                              completion:^(FIRAuthDataResult *_Nullable authResult, NSError *_Nullable error) {
      if (error) {
        // Handle error.
      }
      // User is signed in.
      // IdP data available in authResult.additionalUserInfo.profile.
      // Yahoo OAuth access token can also be retrieved by:
      // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).accessToken
      // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
      // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).idToken
    }];
    }
    }];
        

    Using the OAuth access token, you can call the Yahoo API.

    For example, to get basic profile information, you can call the REST API, passing the access token in the Authorization header:

    https://social.yahooapis.com/v1/user/YAHOO_USER_UID/profile?format=json

    Where YAHOO_USER_UID is the Yahoo user's ID which can be retrieved from the Auth.auth.currentUser.providerData[0].uid field or from authResult.additionalUserInfo.profile.

  7. While the above examples focus on sign-in flows, you also have the ability to link a Yahoo provider to an existing user using linkWithPopup. For example, you can link multiple providers to the same user allowing them to sign in with either.

    Swift

    Auth().currentUser.link(withCredential: credential) { authResult, error in
    if error != nil {
    // Handle error.
    }
    // Yahoo credential is linked to the current user.
    // IdP data available in authResult.additionalUserInfo.profile.
    // Yahoo OAuth access token can also be retrieved by:
    // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.accessToken
    // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
    // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.idToken
    }
        

    Objective-C

    [[FIRAuth auth].currentUser
    linkWithCredential:credential
            completion:^(FIRAuthDataResult * _Nullable authResult, NSError * _Nullable error) {
    if (error) {
    // Handle error.
    }
    // Yahoo credential is linked to the current user.
    // IdP data available in authResult.additionalUserInfo.profile.
    // Yahoo OAuth access token is can also be retrieved by:
    // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).accessToken
    // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
    // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).idToken
    }];
        
  8. The same pattern can be used with reauthenticateWithPopup/reauthenticateWithRedirect which can be used to retrieve fresh credentials for sensitive operations that require recent login.

    Swift

    Auth().currentUser.reauthenticateWithCredential(withCredential: credential) { authResult, error in
    if error != nil {
    // Handle error.
    }
    // User is re-authenticated with fresh tokens minted and
    // should be able to perform sensitive operations like account
    // deletion and email or password update.
    // IdP data available in result.additionalUserInfo.profile.
    // Additional OAuth access token is can also be retrieved by:
    // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.accessToken
    // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
    // (authResult.credential as? OAuthCredential)?.idToken
    }
        

    Objective-C

    [[FIRAuth auth].currentUser
    reauthenticateWithCredential:credential
                      completion:^(FIRAuthDataResult * _Nullable authResult, NSError * _Nullable error) {
    if (error) {
    // Handle error.
    }
    // User is re-authenticated with fresh tokens minted and
    // should be able to perform sensitive operations like account
    // deletion and email or password update.
    // IdP data available in result.additionalUserInfo.profile.
    // Additional OAuth access token is can also be retrieved by:
    // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).accessToken
    // Yahoo OAuth ID token can be retrieved by calling:
    // ((FIROAuthCredential *)authResult.credential).idToken
    }];
        

Next steps

After a user signs in for the first time, a new user account is created and linked to the credentials—that is, the user name and password, phone number, or auth provider information—the user signed in with. This new account is stored as part of your Firebase project, and can be used to identify a user across every app in your project, regardless of how the user signs in.

  • In your apps, you can get the user's basic profile information from the User object. See Manage Users.

  • In your Firebase Realtime Database and Cloud Storage Security Rules, you can get the signed-in user's unique user ID from the auth variable, and use it to control what data a user can access.

You can allow users to sign in to your app using multiple authentication providers by linking auth provider credentials to an existing user account.

To sign out a user, call signOut:.

Swift

let firebaseAuth = Auth.auth()
do {
  try firebaseAuth.signOut()
} catch let signOutError as NSError {
  print("Error signing out: %@", signOutError)
}

Objective-C

NSError *signOutError;
BOOL status = [[FIRAuth auth] signOut:&signOutError];
if (!status) {
  NSLog(@"Error signing out: %@", signOutError);
  return;
}

You may also want to add error handling code for the full range of authentication errors. See Handle Errors.