Google Home Authorization Code and Authentication with Google Account

The current way to authenticate a user through their Google account is to use Google Sign-In for Assistant. Once they log in to your Action, you’ll get an id token which you can decode to get their Google ID, which you can use to look up their account in your datastore to get their access/refresh … Read more

How to authenticate user with just a Google account on Actions on Google?

Update, 25 Oct 2018: As of 13 September 2018, there is now a much simpler way to access the user’s account if your project uses Google Sign-In. Google Sign-In for Assistant will give you an ID Token with information about the user, including their Google ID, with their permission. This permission can be granted just … Read more