OmniAuth Mendeley

This is the unofficial OmniAuth 1.0 strategy for authenticating to Mendeley via OAuth2. To use it, you'll need to sign up at Mendeley.com, sign in with given credentials at Mendeley Developers Page and then create an OAuth2 app.

Usage

# in Gemfile
gem 'omniauth-mendeley_oauth2'

use OmniAuth::Builder do
  provider :mendeley, ENV['API_KEY'], ENV['API_SECRET']
end

Authentication Hash

Here's an example Auth Hash available in request.env['omniauth.auth']:

{
       "provider" => :mendeley,
            "uid" => "asdvwsas-2382-29cc-552b-442dvd5q235ae",
           "info" => {
              "name" => "Alexander White",
        "first_name" => "Alexander",
         "last_name" => "White",
             "email" => "your_mail@gmail.com",
             "image" => "http://s3.amazonaws.com/mendeley-photos/awaiting.png",
              "urls" => {
            "mendeley" => "http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/alexander-white/"
        }
    },
    "credentials" => {
                "token" => "long_string",
        "refresh_token" => "long_string",
           "expires_at" => 1403397662,
              "expires" => true
    },
          "extra" => {
        "raw_info" => {
                         "id" => "asdvwsas-2382-29cc-552b-442dvd5q235ae",
                 "first_name" => "Alexander",
                  "last_name" => "White",
               "display_name" => "Alexander White",
                      "email" => "your_mail@gmail.com",
                       "link" => "http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/alexander-white/",
            "academic_status" => "Student (Master)",
                 "discipline" => {
                "name" => "Computer and Information Science"
            },
                      "photo" => {
                "standard" => "http://s3.amazonaws.com/mendeley-photos/awaiting.png",
                  "square" => "http://s3.amazonaws.com/mendeley-photos/awaiting_square.png"
            },
                   "verified" => true,
                  "user_type" => "normal",
                    "created" => "2014-06-21T20:46:54.000Z"
        }
    }
}

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Supported Rubies

Tested with the following Ruby versions:

• MRI 2.1.0