Library for interacting with OAuth 1.0, 1.0A, 2 and Echo. Provides simplified client access and allows for construction of more complex apis and OAuth providers.
The 'oauth' npm package is a library that allows developers to implement OAuth authentication in their Node.js applications. OAuth is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used to grant websites or applications access to user information on other websites without giving them the passwords. This package supports both OAuth 1.0A and OAuth 2.0 protocols.
Creating an OAuth 1.0A client
This code sample demonstrates how to create an OAuth 1.0A client for interacting with a service like Twitter. It initializes the OAuth client with the necessary endpoints and credentials.
const OAuth = require('oauth').OAuth;
let oauth = new OAuth(
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token',
'your_consumer_key',
'your_consumer_secret',
'1.0A',
null,
'HMAC-SHA1'
);Signing OAuth 1.0A requests
This code sample shows how to sign OAuth 1.0A requests to access protected resources, such as a user's account information on Twitter. It uses the 'get' method of the OAuth client.
oauth.get(
'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json',
'your_access_token', // user token
'your_token_secret', // user secret
function (e, data, res) {
if (e) console.error(e);
console.log(require('util').inspect(data));
}
);Creating an OAuth 2.0 client
This code sample demonstrates how to create an OAuth 2.0 client for interacting with a service like Google. It initializes the OAuth2 client with the necessary endpoints and credentials.
const OAuth2 = require('oauth').OAuth2;
let oauth2 = new OAuth2(
'your_client_id',
'your_client_secret',
'',
'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth',
'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
null
);Getting OAuth 2.0 access token
This code sample shows how to get an OAuth 2.0 access token using the client credentials grant type. The access token can then be used to authenticate API requests.
oauth2.getOAuthAccessToken(
'',
{'grant_type':'client_credentials'},
function (e, access_token, refresh_token, results){
console.log('bearer: ',access_token);
}
);Passport is a popular authentication middleware for Node.js. Unlike 'oauth', which is specifically focused on OAuth protocols, Passport supports a wide range of authentication strategies, including OAuth, OpenID, and others. It is designed to be plugged into any Express-based web application.
Simple OAuth2 is a simplified, modular library for interacting with OAuth2 providers. It abstracts away some of the complexities of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It's a higher-level library compared to 'oauth' and provides a more straightforward API for handling tokens and making authenticated requests.
Grant is a middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi that is designed to help you add OAuth integration to your application. It supports more than 180 providers out of the box and has a simpler configuration compared to 'oauth'. It's a good choice for those who want to support multiple OAuth providers with minimal setup.
A simple oauth API for node.js . This API allows users to authenticate against OAUTH providers, and thus act as OAuth consumers. It also has support for OAuth Echo, which is used for communicating with 3rd party media providers such as TwitPic and yFrog.
Tested against Twitter (http://twitter.com), term.ie (http://term.ie/oauth/example/), TwitPic, and Yahoo!
Also provides rudimentary OAuth2 support, tested against facebook, github, foursquare, google and Janrain. For more complete usage examples please take a look at connect-auth (http://github.com/ciaranj/connect-auth)
$ npm install oauth
FAQs
Library for interacting with OAuth 1.0, 1.0A, 2 and Echo. Provides simplified client access and allows for construction of more complex apis and OAuth providers.
The npm package oauth receives a total of 1,558,379 weekly downloads. As such, oauth popularity was classified as popular.
We found that oauth demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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