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Integrate with Mealie

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What is Mealie?​

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Easily add recipes by providing the URL and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor.

-- https://mealie.io/

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • mealie.company is the FQDN of the Mealie installation.
  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.
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This documentation lists only the settings that you need to change from their default values. Be aware that any changes other than those explicitly mentioned in this guide could cause issues accessing your application.

authentik configuration​

Redirect URI changes in authentik 2026.5

In authentik versions earlier than 2026.5, all Redirect URIs are automatically treated as Authorization type. If you are using one of these older authentik versions, add only the Authorization URL to your Redirect URIs and do not configure a Post Logout URI.

To support the integration of Mealie with authentik, you need to create an application/provider pair and application entitlements in authentik.

Create an application and provider​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click New Application to open the application wizard.
    • Application: provide a descriptive name, an optional group for the type of application, the policy engine mode, and optional UI settings. Note the Slug because it is required later.
    • Choose a Provider type: select OAuth2/OpenID Connect as the provider type.
    • Configure the Provider: provide a name (or accept the auto-provided name), the authorization flow to use for this provider, and the following required configurations.
      • Note the Client ID and Client Secret because they are required later.
      • Add two Redirect URIs of type Strict Authorization:
        • https://mealie.company/login
        • https://mealie.company/login?direct=1
      • Select any available signing key.
      • Under Advanced protocol settings, add authentik default OAuth Mapping: Application Entitlements to Selected Scopes.
    • Configure Bindings (optional): you can create a binding (policy, group, or user) to manage the listing and access to applications on a user's Application Dashboard page.
  3. Click Submit to save the new application and provider.

Create application entitlements​

Use application entitlements to define the Mealie roles that authentik sends to Mealie.

  1. Open the Mealie application that you created in the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Click the Application entitlements tab.
  3. Create two entitlements, and note their names because they are required later:
    • mealie-users
    • mealie-admins
  4. Expand the mealie-users entitlement, click Bind existing group/user, and bind the users or groups that should access Mealie.
  5. Expand the mealie-admins entitlement, click Bind existing group/user, and bind the users or groups that should become Mealie administrators. Users with this entitlement do not also need the mealie-users entitlement.

Mealie treats these values as identity provider groups, but authentik sends them from application entitlements. This keeps Mealie-specific authorization scoped to the Mealie application.

Mealie configuration​

To enable OIDC login with Mealie, update your environment variables to include the following:

.env
OIDC_AUTH_ENABLED=true
OIDC_PROVIDER_NAME=authentik
OIDC_CONFIGURATION_URL=https://authentik.company/application/o/<application_slug>/.well-known/openid-configuration
OIDC_CLIENT_ID=<Client ID from authentik>
OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=<Client secret from authentik>
OIDC_GROUPS_CLAIM=entitlements
OIDC_USER_GROUP=mealie-users
OIDC_ADMIN_GROUP=mealie-admins

Restart the Mealie service for the changes to take effect.

Configure login behavior (optional)​

To redirect users directly to authentik from the Mealie login page, extend their sessions as if Remember Me was selected, and hide the username and password fields, add these environment variables:

.env
OIDC_AUTO_REDIRECT=true
OIDC_REMEMBER_ME=true
ALLOW_PASSWORD_LOGIN=false

Restart the Mealie service for the changes to take effect.

Configuration verification​

To confirm that authentik is properly configured with Mealie, open Mealie and log in via authentik.

In Mealie, click the user profile icon in the top-left corner. Then click Members, and confirm that users with the mealie-admins entitlement are Admin users in Mealie.

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