sauth

Command line social authentication strategies

install

$ npm i sauth -g

about

sauth makes use of strategies for authentication. The goal of a strategy is to authenticate a user with some type of authentication control flow like OAuth. A strategy is devised into asynchronous phases. The end result is usually to output an access token and/or user information in the terminal. Implementing a strategy is fairly trivial and only involves writing a few interface functions. See sauth-instagram for a simple example.

usage

sauth(1) is meant to be used as a command line utility. The basic usage is:

usage: sauth [-hV] <strategy> [-c config] [...args]

where strategy is the name of the strategy to use. It is required internally as sauth-{NAME} and should exists in one of the paths found in module.paths. Arguments are passed to the strategy as an object and are up to the strategy implementor. The argument --client-id=1234 is serialized into an object {'client-id': 1234} and passed to the strategy as the fist argument. The second argument is a callback that should be invoked after the strategy has completed.

The -c or --config argument is a path to a JSON or javascript file that will be the arguments passed to the strategy itself. This makes it convenient for running strategies from the command line.

example:

{
  "client_id": "1234",
  "client_secret": "5678",
  "redirect_uri": "http://localhost:9999/ig/auth",
  "port": 9999
}

$ sauth instagram -c ig-strategy-conf.json

license

MIT