authom is an authentication library for node.js. It unifies authentication APIs for multiple services into a single EventEmitter, and works with both the built-in node.js HTTP module and as an Express/Connect app.
authom was designed to solve one problem and solve it well. It has an intuitive node.js-like API, no required dependencies, and doesn't force any particular persistence, session, or middleware approaches on you.
For the built-in node.js HTTP module:
// Like socket.io, authom will intercept requests
// for you to help keep your routes clean.
var server = require("http").createServer()
, authom = require("authom")
server.on("request", function() {
// your usual server logic
})
// create servers for the services you'll be using
authom.createServer({ /* facebook credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* github credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* google credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* twitter credentials */ })
// ... et cetera
authom.on("auth", function(req, res, data) {
// called when a user is authenticated on any service
})
authom.on("error", function(req, res, data) {
// called when an error occurs during authentication
})
authom.listen(server)
server.listen(8000)
For Express/Connect:
var express = require("express")
, app = express()
, authom = require("authom")
// create servers for the services you'll be using
authom.createServer({ /* facebook credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* github credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* google credentials */ })
authom.createServer({ /* twitter credentials */ })
// ... et cetera
authom.on("auth", function(req, res, data) {
// called when a user is authenticated on any service
})
authom.on("error", function(req, res, data) {
// called when an error occurs during authentication
})
app.get("/auth/:service", authom.app)
app.listen(8000)
37signals (by nodebiscut)
Bitbucket (by aslakhellesoy)
Dropbox (by cartuchogl)
Dwolla (by nodebiscut)
Facebook (by jed)
Fitbit (by pspeter3)
Foodspotting (by kimtaro)
Foursquare (by nodebiscut)
GitHub (by jed)
Google (by jed)
Gowalla (by jed)
LinkedIn (by shinecita)
Meetup (by softprops)
Reddit (by avidw)
SoundCloud (by jed)
Stripe Connect (by recipher)
Trello (by falexandrou)
Twitter (by jed)
Vkontakte (by molforp)
Windows Live (by jed)
Ninja Blocks (by thatguydan)
To install, enter:
$ npm install authom
To see the demo, enter:
$ npm start authom
And then head to http://authom.jedschmidt.com (which resolves to your local machine at 127.0.0.1). sudo is needed to bind to port 80, as many providers do not allow callback URLs with a port or localhost as the host.
See Extending authom below.
authom aims to solve a smaller problem, more agnostically. It trades convenience for simplicity and flexibility. Here are some key differences:
authom was built for node, and can also work with Express, while everyauth is tied to Express and Connect. everyauth aims for a much more ambitious integration, but at the expense of locking you into a particular stack. authom takes a more UNIX approach; since it doesn't handle logins, persistence, sessions, or anything past authentication, it is more of a tool and less of a framework.
authom uses native node.js conventions such as EventEmitters and objects, while everyauth uses promises and a chaining config API. This is of course subjective, but the authom API aims to be closer to the APIs of node.js itself.
Creates an EventEmitter for the given authentication service. The service is specified by the service key of the options object, with all other keys differing based on the service. For example, github would be called like this:
var github = authom.createServer({
service: "github",
id: "7e38d12b740a339b2d31",
secret: "116e41bd4cd160b7fae2fe8cc79c136a884928c3",
scope: ["gist"]
})
An optional name member can also be passed to override that used for authom path matching. So if you had two GitHub apps, you could set them as name: github1 and name: github2, so that they could be accessed as /auth/github1 and /auth/github2.
You can listen for auth and error events by:
authom for all service eventsFor example, use this to listen for events from GitHub, based on the code above:
github.on("auth", function(req, res, gitHubSpecificData){})
github.on("error", function(req, res, gitHubSpecificData){})
Or, use this to listen to events from all provders, since authom already listens and namespaces them for you:
authom.on("auth", function(req, res, data){})
authom.on("error", function(req, res, data){})
Listens for successful authentications across all services. The listener is called with the original request/response objects as well as a service-specific user object, which contains the following keys:
token: the token resulting from authenticationrefresh_token: the refresh_token resulting from authentication, if implemented by auth service, otherwise undefinedid: the ID of the user on the remote servicedata: the original data returned from the service, andservice: the name of the service, given so that you can branch your code:authom.on("auth", function(req, res, data) {
switch(data.service) {
case "github": ...
case "google": ...
.
.
.
}
})
Listens for failed authentications across all services. Like the auth event, the listener is called with the original request/response objects as well as an error object, allowing you to provide your own session scheme.
Listens to an existing HTTP(S) server for request events. Like socket.io's .listen method, authom will intercept any request whose path starts with /auth.
A standard node.js listener. This can be used for more control over the path at which authom is used. For example, the following two are equivalent:
// socket.io-style
var server = require("http").createServer()
, authom = require("authom")
server.on("request", function() {
/* your usual server logic */
})
authom.listen(server)
server.listen(8000)
// route-style
var server = require("http").createServer()
, authom = require("authom")
server.on("request", function(req, res) {
if (req.url.slice(5) == "/auth") authom.listener(req, res)
else {
/* your usual server logic */
}
})
server.listen(8000)
Authom-compliant services can be registered using this method. This is useful for adding custom authentication services not suited to be part of the /lib core services. (For example a business-specific in-house authentication service.) Custom services will override existing services of the same name.
var authom = require("authom")
, EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter
//Custom authentication service
var IpAuth = function(options) {
var server = new EventEmitter
var whiteList = options.whiteList || ["127.0.0.1", "::1"]
server.on("request", function(req, res) {
if (~whiteList.indexOf(req.connection.remoteAddress)) {
server.emit("auth", req, res, {status: "yay"})
}
else {
server.emit("error", req, res, {status: "boo"})
}
})
return server
}
authom.registerService("ip-auth", IpAuth)
auth.createServer({
service: "ip-auth",
whiteList : ["127.0.0.1", "::1", "192.168.0.1"]
})
A regular expression that is run on the pathname of every request. authom will only run if this expression is matched. By default, it is /^\/auth\/([^\/]+)\/?$/.
This is a convenience Express app, which should be mounted at a path containing a :service parameter.
Options:
service: "37signals"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretExample:
var signals = authom.createServer({
service: "37signals",
id: "c2098292571a03070eb12746353997fb8d6f0e00",
secret: "4cb7f46fa83f73ec99d37162b946522b9e7a4d5a"
})
Options:
service: "dropbox"id: the application's App keysecret: the application's App secretinfo: specify true if you want to get the user info (a little slower - one extra request)Example:
var dropbox = authom.createServer({
service: "dropbox",
id: "zuuteb2w7i82mdg",
secret: "rj503lgqodxzvbp"
info: true
})
Options:
service: "dwolla"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretscope: the scope requested.Example:
var dwolla = authom.createServer({
service: "dwolla",
id: "0vNUP/9/GSBXEv69nqKZVfhSZbw8XQdnDiatyXSTM7vW1WzAAU",
secret: "KI2tdLiRZ813aclUxTgUVyDbxysoJQzPBjHTJ111nHMNdAVlcs",
scope: "AccountInfoFull"
})
Options:
service: "facebook"id: the application's App IDsecret: the application's App secretscope (optional): the scopes requested by your applicationfields (optional): the fields passed onto /users/me
Example:var facebook = authom.createServer({
service: "facebook",
id: "256546891060909",
secret: "e002572fb07423fa66fc38c25c9f49ad",
scope: [],
fields: ["name", "picture"]
})
Options:
service: "fitbit"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretExample:
var fitbit = authom.createServer({
service: "fitbit",
id: "45987d27b0e14780bb1a6f1769e679dd",
secret: "3d403aaeb5b84bc49e98ef8b946a19d5"
})
Options:
service: "foodspotting"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretExample:
var foodspotting = authom.createServer({
service: "foodspotting",
id: "<api key>",
secret: "<api secret>"
})
Options:
service: "foursquare"id: the application's CLIENT IDsecret: the application's CLIENT SECRETExample:
var foursquare = authom.createServer({
service: "foursquare",
id: "0DPGLE430Y2LFUCOSFXB0ACG3GGD5DNHH5335FLT4US1QDAZ",
secret: "WLNCAVFHCMQGVYOZTNOLPXW0XL2KN0DRD1APOA45SRGEZSGK"
})
Options:
service: "github"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Secretredirect_uri (optional): Alternative redirect url.scope (optional): the scopes requested by your application, as explained here.state (optional): Unguessable random string.url (optional): URL to github. Specify this to use with GitHub Enterprise.Example:
var github = authom.createServer({
service: "github",
id: "7e38d12b740a339b2d31",
secret: "116e41bd4cd160b7fae2fe8cc79c136a884928c3",
scope: "gist"
})
Make sure that the callback URL used by your application has the same hostname and port as that specified for your application. If they are different, you will get redirect_uri_mismatch errors.
Options:
service: "bitbucket"id: the application's Keysecret: the application's Secretemails: specify true if you want to get the user's emails (a little slower - one extra request)Example:
var bitbucket = authom.createServer({
service: "bitbucket",
id: "Fs7WNJSqgUSL8zBAZD",
secret: "yNTv52kS7DWSztpLgbLWKD2AaNxGq2mB",
emails: true
})
Options:
service: "google"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretscope (optional): the scopes requested by your applicationExample:
var google = authom.createServer({
service: "google",
id: "515913292583.apps.googleusercontent.com",
secret: "UAjUGd_MD9Bkho-kazmJ5Icm",
scope: ""
})
Options:
service: "gowalla"id: the application's API keysecret: the application's Secret keyExample:
var gowalla = authom.createServer({
service: "gowalla",
id: "b8514b75c2674916b77c9a913783b9c2",
secret: "34f713fdd6b4488982328487f443bd6d"
})
Make sure that the callback URL used by your application is identical to that specified for your application. With the default settings, you'll need a redirect URI of http://<your-host>/auth/google.
Options:
service: "instagram"id: the application's CLIENT IDsecret: the application's CLIENT SECRETscope (optional): the scopes requested by your applicationExample:
var instagram = authom.createServer({
service: "instagram",
id: "e55497d0ebc24289aba4e715f1ab7d2a",
secret: "a0e7064bfda64e57a46dcdba48378776"
})
Options:
service: "reddit"id: the application's CLIENT IDsecret: the application's CLIENT SECRETstate: Unguessable random string.scope (optional): the scopes requested by your applicationExample:
var reddit = authom.createServer({
service: "reddit",
id: "hG5c04ZOk0UngQ",
secret: "mdJoGP4ayA9M7NdBiKxZUyewz7M",
state: "unguessable-random-string",
scope: "identity"
})
Options:
service: "soundcloud"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client SecretExample:
var soundcloud = authom.createServer({
service: "soundcloud",
id: "9e5e7b0a891b4a2b13aeae9e5b0c89bb",
secret: "2f4df63c8ff10f466685c305e87eba6f"
})
Options:
service: "trello"id: the application's Consumer keysecret: the application's Consumer secretapp_name: the application's nameexpiration: optional - when the token expires (examples: never, 30days, 1day). Default is 30daysscope: optional - by default the scope is set to read. Example: read,writeExample:
var trello = authom.createServer({
service: "trello",
id: "LwjCfHAugMghuYtHLS9Ugw",
secret: "etam3XHqDSDPceyHti6tRQGoywiISY0vZWfzhQUxGL4",
app_name: "Coolest app in the world",
expiration: "never",
scope: "read,write",
})
Options:
service: "twitter"id: the application's Consumer keysecret: the application's Consumer secretExample:
var twitter = authom.createServer({
service: "twitter",
id: "LwjCfHAugMghuYtHLS9Ugw",
secret: "etam3XHqDSDPceyHti6tRQGoywiISY0vZWfzhQUxGL4"
})
Notes: Since Twitter is still (!) using the old OAuth1.0a protocol, it requires @ciaranj's node-oauth library to be installed.
Options:
service: "vkontakte"id: the application's App IDsecret: the application's App secretscope (optional): the scopes requested by your applicationfields (optional): the fields passed onto /method/users.getExample:
var vkontakte = authom.createServer({
service: "vkontakte",
id: "3793488",
secret: "jZnIeU4nnQfqM5mfjkK0",
scope: [],
fields: ["screen_name", "sex", "photo"]
})
Options:
service: "windowslive"id: the application's Client IDsecret: the application's Client secretscope: the scope requested.Example:
var windowslive = authom.createServer({
service: "windowslive",
id: "000000004C06BA3A",
secret: "2RsIhweMq6PxR8jc5CjTVoCqTvKZmctY",
scope: "wl.basic"
})
Options:
service: "linkedin"id: the application's Api keysecret: the application's Secret keyscopes: Optional. An array with the scopes, fe: ["r_fullprofile", "r_emailaddress"]. Default: r_fullprofilefields: Optional. Comma separated (no spaces) String with the linkedIn fields to include in the query, fe: "first-name,last-name,picture-url,industry,summary,specialties,skills,projects,headline,site-standard-profile-request"format: Optional. Format of the response, default "json".Example:
var linkedin = authom.createServer({
service: "linkedin",
id: "AsjCfHAugMghuYtHLS9Xzy",
secret: "arom3XHqDSDPceyHti6tRQGoywiISY0vZWfzhQUxXZ5"
})
To add an authentication service provider, add a javascript file for the service at the path /lib/services/<service-name>.js. This file should module.exports a constructor that returns an EventEmitter that listens for request events, and emits auth and error events to itself.
var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter
module.exports = function(options) {
var server = new EventEmitter
server.on("request", function(req, res) {
// respond to the request, redirecting the user as needed
if (successful) {
// pass an object containing the service's user data
server.emit("auth", req, res, obj)
}
else {
// pass an object containing an error message
server.emit("error", req, res, obj)
}
})
return server
}
To make sure that your code can recieve subsequent HTTP(S) calls from the service, use the inbound req.url as the callback URL, using the querystring to disambiguate different stages of the authentication process. See /lib/services/github.js for an example implementation.
Once you're done, and have written tests, make sure you open a pull request so that the rest of us can benefit!
Copyright (c) 2012 Jed Schmidt, http://jed.is/
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