Twitter-auth-await

Twitter auth library for async/await users

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Installation

NPM:

npm install -S twitter-auth-await

Yarn:

yarn add twitter-auth-await

Requirements

This library is made to run on Node >= 8.x.

Auth workflow supported

Currently the library only supports Twitter's OAuth 1.0a workflow as I didn't need the others. If you'd like to have other workflow supported by this library, please feel free to file an issue for it.

API

const client = new TwitterOAuth(options)

Creates a new client to start the auth workflow where:

• options - an object with the following keys:
  • consumerKey - the consumer key provided by Twitter for your app. required
  • consumerSecret - the consumer secret provided by Twitter for your app. required
  • callback - the optional URL that Twitter should call after the user has gone through Twitter authorization successfully.
• returns an instance of the library.

async getRedirectAuthURI()

This method is the first one to be called when starting the auth workflow where:

• returns the URI where you should redirect your client to i.e https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=requestToken.

getAccessToken(oAuthToken, oAuthTokenVerifier)

Process the token retrieved from the previous step to obtain the access token where:

• oAuthToken - the token sent back to your callback (if submitted) when the authorization workflow is successful. required
• oAuthTokenVerifier - the token verifier sent along the oAuthToken. required
• returns a promise resolving an object with the following properties:
  • accessToken - the access token needed to access the user's protected Twitter resources.
  • accessTokenSecret - the access token secret.
  • userId - Twitter's user id.
  • xAuthExpires - times after which the token will expire.

How it works

There are 3 steps required for you to start using this library:

1. Create a new client using the constructor:

import { TwitterOAuth } from 'twitter-auth-await';
 
const twitterClient = new TwitterOAuth({
  consumerKey: 'myConsumerKey',
  consumerSecret: 'myConsumerSecret',
  callback: 'http://127.0.0.1/auth-callback',
});

When using the Twitter's auth in your app you should have created your app credentials prior using this lib. Follow this link to do so: https://apps.twitter.com/. Once done, you'll have your consumer key and consumer secret. If you don't provide a callback URL you'll end up with a PIN on the client side that your client would need to submit to your server for you to complete the auth workflow.

1. Get the redirect auth URI:

const redirectUri = await twitterClient.getRedirectAuthURI();
 
response.redirect(redirectUri);

1. Get the access token:

const { oauth_token: oauthToken, oauth_verifier: oauthVerifier } = request.query;
 
const { accessToken } = await twitterClient.getAccessToken(oauthToken, oauthVerifier);

The sections above don't assume any particular node framework that's why there isn't any boilerplate surrounding the snippets.

Examples

WIP