Create identityProvider (deprecated)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Caution

This identity provider API is deprecated and will stop returning data after March, 2023. Please use the new identity provider API.

Create a new identityProvider by specifying display name, identityProvider type, client ID, and client secret.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	IdentityProvider.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	IdentityProvider.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. External Identity Provider Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /identityProviders

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON representation of identityProvider object. All the properties listed in the following table are required.

Property	Type	Description
clientId	String	The client ID for the application. This is the client ID obtained when registering the application with the identity provider.
clientSecret	String	The client secret for the application. This is the client secret obtained when registering the application with the identity provider.
name	String	The display name of the identity provider.
type	String	The identity provider type. It must be one of the following values for B2C Scenarios: Microsoft Google Amazon LinkedIn Facebook GitHub Twitter Weibo QQ WeChat For B2B it can only be Google

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and identityProvider object in the response body. If unsuccessful, a 4xx error will be returned with specific details.

Example

The following example creates an identityProvider.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityProviders
Content-type: application/json

{
    "name": "Login with Amazon",
    "type": "Amazon",
    "clientId": "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
    "clientSecret": "000000000000"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new IdentityProvider
{
	Name = "Login with Amazon",
	Type = "Amazon",
	ClientId = "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
	ClientSecret = "000000000000",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityProviders.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc identity-providers create --body '{\
    "name": "Login with Amazon",\
    "type": "Amazon",\
    "clientId": "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",\
    "clientSecret": "000000000000"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewIdentityProvider()
name := "Login with Amazon"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
type := "Amazon"
requestBody.SetType(&type) 
clientId := "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8"
requestBody.SetClientId(&clientId) 
clientSecret := "000000000000"
requestBody.SetClientSecret(&clientSecret) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
identityProviders, err := graphClient.IdentityProviders().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

IdentityProvider identityProvider = new IdentityProvider();
identityProvider.setName("Login with Amazon");
identityProvider.setType("Amazon");
identityProvider.setClientId("56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8");
identityProvider.setClientSecret("000000000000");
IdentityProvider result = graphClient.identityProviders().post(identityProvider);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const identityProvider = {
    name: 'Login with Amazon',
    type: 'Amazon',
    clientId: '56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8',
    clientSecret: '000000000000'
};

await client.api('/identityProviders')
	.post(identityProvider);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityProvider;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new IdentityProvider();
$requestBody->setName('Login with Amazon');
$requestBody->setType('Amazon');
$requestBody->setClientId('56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8');
$requestBody->setClientSecret('000000000000');

$result = $graphServiceClient->identityProviders()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	name = "Login with Amazon"
	type = "Amazon"
	clientId = "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8"
	clientSecret = "000000000000"
}

New-MgIdentityProvider -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.identity_provider import IdentityProvider
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = IdentityProvider(
	name = "Login with Amazon",
	type = "Amazon",
	client_id = "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
	client_secret = "000000000000",
)

result = await graph_client.identity_providers.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "id": "Amazon-OAUTH",
    "name": "Login with Amazon",
    "type": "Amazon",
    "clientId": "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
    "clientSecret": "*****"
}