Add Twitch as a social connection

How to set up social connection with Twitch

Overview

Adding social connection with Twitch to your app with Clerk is done in a few steps - you only need to set the Client ID, Client Secret and Redirect URI in your instance settings.

To make the development flow as smooth as possible, Clerk uses preconfigured shared OAuth credentials and redirect URIs for development instances - no other configuration is needed.

For production instances, you will need to generate your own Client ID and Client secret using your Twitch account.

Before you start

• You need to create a Clerk Application in your Clerk Dashboard. For more information, check out our Set up your application guide.
• You need to have a Twitch account. To create one, click here.

Configuring Twitch social connection

First, you need to register a new OAuth Twitch app at the Twitch Developers Console.

Set a name and a category for your new application. You also need to add the OAuth Redirect URLs.

Navigate to the Clerk Dashboard. In the top navigation, select Configure. Then in the sidebar, select SSO Connections. Select the Add connection button, and select For all users. In the Choose provider dropdown, select Twitch. Toggle on Use custom credentials and copy Redirect URI. Paste the value into the OAuth Redirect URLs input and click create.

Once all the above are complete, copy the Client ID and Client Secret. Go back to the Clerk Dashboard and paste them into the respective fields.

Finally, select Add connection so that the settings are applied. Congratulations! Social connection with Twitch is now configured for your instance.