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• Which API are you using? – Google+ API
• Where will you be calling the API from? – Web server (e.g. node.js, Tomcat)
• What data will you be accessing? – User data

https://localhost:6001/signin-google

{
  "Authentication": {
    "Google": {
      "ClientId": "xxxx",
      "ClientSecret": "xxxx"
    }
  }
}

namespace DNT.IDP
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
   // ... 

            services.AddAuthentication()
                .AddGoogle(authenticationScheme: "Google", configureOptions: options =>
                {
                    options.SignInScheme = IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme;
                    options.ClientId = Configuration["Authentication:Google:ClientId"];
                    options.ClientSecret = Configuration["Authentication:Google:ClientSecret"];
                });
        }

 public const string ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme = "idsrv.external";

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.Account
{
    [SecurityHeaders]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    public class ExternalController : Controller
    {
        public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()
        {
            var result = await HttpContext.AuthenticateAsync(IdentityServer4.IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme);
            var returnUrl = result.Properties.Items["returnUrl"] ?? "~/";

            var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);
            if (user == null)
            {
                // user = AutoProvisionUser(provider, providerUserId, claims);
                
                var returnUrlAfterRegistration = Url.Action("Callback", new { returnUrl = returnUrl });
                var continueWithUrl = Url.Action("RegisterUser", "UserRegistration" ,
                    new { returnUrl = returnUrlAfterRegistration, provider = provider, providerUserId = providerUserId });
                return Redirect(continueWithUrl);
            }

var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);  
foreach (var claim in claims)
{
   _logger.LogInformation($"External provider[{provider}] info-> claim:{claim.Type}, value:{claim.Value}");
}

External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name, value:Vahid N.
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname, value:Vahid
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname, value:N.
External provider[Google] info-> claim:urn:google:profile, value:https://plus.google.com/105013528531611201860
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress, value:my.name@gmail.com

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()
        {
            // ...

            var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);
            if (user == null)
            {
                // user wasn't found by provider, but maybe one exists with the same email address?  
                if (provider == "Google")
                {
                    // email claim from Google
                    var email = claims.FirstOrDefault(c =>
                        c.Type == "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress");
                    if (email != null)
                    {
                        var userByEmail = await _usersService.GetUserByEmailAsync(email.Value);
                        if (userByEmail != null)
                        {
                            // add Google as a provider for this user
                            await _usersService.AddUserLoginAsync(userByEmail.SubjectId, provider, providerUserId);

                            // redirect to ExternalLoginCallback
                            var continueWithUrlAfterAddingUserLogin =
                                Url.Action("Callback", new {returnUrl = returnUrl});
                            return Redirect(continueWithUrlAfterAddingUserLogin);
                        }
                    }
                }


                var returnUrlAfterRegistration = Url.Action("Callback", new {returnUrl = returnUrl});
                var continueWithUrl = Url.Action("RegisterUser", "UserRegistration",
                    new {returnUrl = returnUrlAfterRegistration, provider = provider, providerUserId = providerUserId});
                return Redirect(continueWithUrl);
            }

dotnet new web

 dotnet add package IdentityServer4

    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddMvc();

            services.AddIdentityServer()
                .AddDeveloperSigningCredential();
        }

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Security.Claims;
using IdentityServer4.Models;
using IdentityServer4.Test;

namespace DNT.IDP
{
    public static class Config
    {
        // test users
        public static List<TestUser> GetUsers()
        {
            return new List<TestUser>
            {
                new TestUser
                {
                    SubjectId = "d860efca-22d9-47fd-8249-791ba61b07c7",
                    Username = "User 1",
                    Password = "password",

                    Claims = new List<Claim>
                    {
                        new Claim("given_name", "Vahid"),
                        new Claim("family_name", "N"),
                    }
                },
                new TestUser
                {
                    SubjectId = "b7539694-97e7-4dfe-84da-b4256e1ff5c7",
                    Username = "User 2",
                    Password = "password",

                    Claims = new List<Claim>
                    {
                        new Claim("given_name", "User 2"),
                        new Claim("family_name", "Test"),
                    }
                }
            };
        }

        // identity-related resources (scopes)
        public static IEnumerable<IdentityResource> GetIdentityResources()
        {
            return new List<IdentityResource>
            {
                new IdentityResources.OpenId(),
                new IdentityResources.Profile()
            };
        }

        public static IEnumerable<Client> GetClients()
        {
            return new List<Client>();
        }
    }
}

    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddMvc();

            services.AddIdentityServer()
             .AddDeveloperSigningCredential()
             .AddTestUsers(Config.GetUsers())
             .AddInMemoryIdentityResources(Config.GetIdentityResources())
             .AddInMemoryClients(Config.GetClients());
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
            }

            app.UseIdentityServer();
            app.UseStaticFiles();
            app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
        }

 https://localhost:6001/.well-known/openid-configuration

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4.Quickstart.UI/release/get.ps1'))

\curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4.Quickstart.UI/release/get.sh | bash

Last year, Mike Rousos posted a great post about token authentication on the .NET blog and demonstrated how you could leverage ASP.NET Core Identity and OpenIddict to create your own tokens in a completely standard way.