How to obtain avatar image from providers?

BLKKKBVSIK · April 2, 2021, 12:18pm

Hi !
I’m new to Strapi, and I’ve setup one provider (Discord OAuth2) and whenever I connect with this provider, it create a new user in the Strapi User collection.
Everything perfect so far.
Now, I would like to know how to get the discord avatar of the users who are connecting to the provider and upload them in my Strapi (whether as an Image or as a String)
How to modify the Strapi user collection so it can automatically fetch the profile picture of my users ?

System Information

Strapi Version: v3.5.4
Operating System: Debian 9
Database: sqlite
Node Version: v12.22.0
NPM Version: 6.14.11
Yarn Version: 1.22.10

DMehaffy · April 2, 2021, 6:40pm

I really need to poke our eng team about this as TBH even I’m not sure how to pass files between backend services.

Creating a documentation request for this so we can look into it.

github.com/strapi/documentation

[Request]: Document how to handle file "uploads" from the backend through services

opened 06:40PM - 02 Apr 21 UTC

derrickmehaffy

type: doc request

### Summary We currently have documentation for uploading files from REST/GQL b…ut not internally within the backend. For example automatically fetching provider avatar/gravatars and uploading / attaching the relation to an entry (user model). Likewise other hooks/providers that could potentially fetch external images and automatically attach them automatically. ### Why is it needed? Fundamental documentation for internal APIs within the backend stack ### Suggested solution(s) Work with engineering team to explore existing internal APIs for documentation, suggest feature request/enhancements for future development on any lacking or incomplete APIs ### Related issue(s)/PR(s) https://forum.strapi.io/t/how-to-obtain-avatar-image-from-providers/3887

Stak · April 3, 2021, 5:02pm

Hi, @BLKKKBVSIK Did you found any workaround related to it for the time being? thanks

BLKKKBVSIK · April 3, 2021, 6:21pm

Hi @Stak !
Sadly, I didn’t find any workaround yet… I’m still searching and modifing Strapi and the provided react login and searching how I can maybe reuse the token from my provider, but it’ll be better if I could directly have access from the avatar of my users through Strapi itself.

muhdlaziem · October 18, 2021, 4:09pm

Any updates regarding this

DMehaffy · October 19, 2021, 10:02pm

Related Discord Convo in our strapi-backend channel:

(here is the link I provided: strapi/Providers.js at 077741b03725cc981bc984399d553df8a12d89d0 · strapi/strapi · GitHub)