passport-twitter-token

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Passport strategy for authenticating with Twitter tokens using the OAuth 1.0a API.

This module lets you authenticate using Twitter in your Node.js applications.
By plugging into Passport, Twitter authentication can be easily and unobtrusively integrated into any application or framework that supports Connect-style middleware, including Express.

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#### Using npm

$ npm install passport-twitter-token

#### Using yarn

$ yarn add passport-twitter-token

Usage

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The Twitter authentication strategy authenticates users using a Twitter account and OAuth tokens.
The strategy requires a verify callback, which receives the access token and corresponding secret as arguments, as well as profile which contains the authenticated user's Twitter profile.
The verify callback must call done providing a user to complete authentication.

In order to identify your application to Twitter, specify the consumer key, consumer secret, and callback URL within options.
The consumer key and secret are obtained by creating an application at Twitter's developer site.

Optional fields:
- includeEmail - Boolean
- includeStatus - Boolean
- includeEntities - Boolean
- userProfileURL - Default https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json

``javascript
var TwitterTokenStrategy = require('passport-twitter-token');

passport.use(new TwitterTokenStrategy({
consumerKey: TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
consumerSecret: TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
}, function(token, tokenSecret, profile, done) {
User.findOrCreate({ twitterId: profile.id }, function (error, user) {
return done(error, user);
});
}
));
`

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Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the 'twitter-token' strategy, to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

`javascript
app.post('/auth/twitter/token',
passport.authenticate('twitter-token'),
function (req, res) {
// do something with req.user
res.send(req.user ? 200 : 401);
}
);
`

Or as action in Sails framework:

`javascript
// api/controllers/AuthController.js
module.exports = {
twitter: function(req, res) {
passport.authenticate('twitter-token', function(error, user, info) {
// do your stuff with user
})(req, res);
}
};
`

Execute a request (GET or POST) to created route with the following data:

`
GET /auth/twitter/token?oauth_token=&oauth_token_secret=&user_id=
`

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To remove the need to embed the consumer secret in your client application, you can setup a route to perform step 1 on the server-side.

For example, as route in an Express application using the request module:

`javascript
var request = require('request');

app.post('/auth/twitter/reverse', function(req, res) {
var self = this;

request.post({
url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
oauth: {
consumer_key: app.set('twitter client key'),
consumer_secret: app.set('twitter client secret')
},
form: { x_auth_mode: 'reverse_auth' }
}, function (err, r, body) {
if (err) {
return res.send(500, { message: e.message });
}

if (body.indexOf('OAuth') !== 0) {
return res.send(500, { message: 'Malformed response from Twitter' });
}

res.send({ x_reverse_auth_parameters: body });
});
};
``

Credits

- Nicholas Penree
- Jared Hanson
- Eugene Obrezkov

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Nicholas Penree

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