Google + API Shutdown on 3/7/2019. Update Your Hybridauth Library

Posted By Luc / March 6, 2019

You may have heard: Google+ is game over.

Officially, this is directly related to a leak of data that potentially impacted 500,000 Google+ accounts.

Businesswise, the attempts of Google to build a social media platform was not successful. If you had a personal account on Google+ and want to download your data before the shutdown, you can download it here.

The shutdown will happen in two phases:

March 7, 2019: Google+ API Shutdown
April 1, 2019: Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts

Your website can be impacted by the shutdown of the Google+ API. This API was used by many providers and libraries to be able to login to a website using Google.

Hybridauth on Drupal 7

If your Drupal site is using Google to log n, it's possible that you are still using the Google+ API. A very popular module in D7 to log in using social media is called Hybridauth (to log in with LinkedIn, and Facebook, as well Google). You need to update that library and your Google key.

Here are the steps to keep your Hybridauth working in D7:

Step 1. Update the Hybridauth library. You want to use the latest stable version, right now it's v2.13.0. For more details about the code change, this version includes the fix for the Google API change in this Pull Request.

Step 2. You need to use OAuth 2.0 client ID. The format of the key should be something like xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com.