# Need help connecting to a simple OpenID Provider

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/need-help-connecting-to-a-simple-openid-provider/10017>\
**Category:** APIs\
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/need-help-connecting-to-a-simple-openid-provider/10017 "2017-01-30T03:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![mishav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/mishav/32/6420_2.png) [@mishav](https://forum.bubble.io/u/mishav)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/need-help-connecting-to-a-simple-openid-provider/10017/5 "2017-02-01T03:14:50Z")

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It looks like the request is returning a generic response, and needs more parameters to do anything useful.

Some ideas to get traction …

- Provide a link to Steam’s API docs
- Ask @emmanuel if this method (OpenId over xml) is supported using the API connector, with Oauth2?

Other threads that might be useful …

> [@How to integrate Paypal with Bubble using Oauth2](http://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-integrate-paypal-with-bubble-using-oauth2/6803):
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> Hi All, I just wanted to share with everyone how I was able to integrate Oauth2 for Paypal since Emmanuel spent a good deal of time with me over email to fix the issues I was having. Keep in mind that this pertains only to Paypal, however some of the notes I make below could carry over to other applications. The initial issue I was having was that Bubble was not recognizing the access token from Paypal because Paypal uses Basic Auth in order to request the token. This functionality was missing…

> [@\[New Feature - Beta\] API Connector and OAuth2 APIs](http://forum.bubble.io/t/new-feature-beta-api-connector-and-oauth2-apis/6294):
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> This one has been awaited for a long time, and we’re happy to release it today. We’re calling it beta as we expect a few cases we don’t handle yet (each API comes with different situations). You can now add your own APIs for authentication, provided they follow the standard OAuth2 protocol. This will let you let your users authenticate with services we don’t have yet (let say, Spotify) get data and post data to these services as the logged in user. In short, it’ll be very much like what you …

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