simple-oauth2-reddit v0.5.1

Simple OAuth2 Reddit

This library is a wrapper around Simple OAuth2 Library

Specially made for Authorization Code Flow with Reddit.

Requirements

Latest Node 8 LTS or newer versions.

Getting started

npm install --save simple-oauth2 simple-oauth2-reddit

or

yarn add simple-oauth2 simple-oauth2-reddit

Usage

const simpleOAuth2Reddit = require('simple-oauth2-reddit');
const reddit = simpleOAuth2Reddit.create(options);

reddit object exposes 3 keys:

• authorize: Middleware to request user's authorization.
• getToken: Middleware for callback processing and exchange the authorization token for an access_token
• oauth2: The underlying simple-oauth2 instance.

Options

Required options

Other options

Example

Original boilerplate

const oauth2 = require('simple-oauth2').create({
  client: {
    id: process.env.REDDIT_APP_ID,
    secret: process.env.REDDIT_APP_SECRET
  },
  auth: {
    authorizeHost: 'https://www.reddit.com'
    authorizePath: '/api/v1/authorize',

    tokenHost: 'https://www.reddit.com',
    tokenPath: '/api/v1/access_token'
  }
});

router.get('/auth/reddit', (req, res) => {
  const authorizationUri = oauth2.authorizationCode.authorizeURL({
    redirect_uri: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/reddit/callback',
    scope: ['identity'],
    state: 'random-unique-string'
  });

  res.redirect(authorizationUri);
});

router.get('/auth/reddit/callback', async(req, res) => {
  const code = req.query.code;
  const options = {
    code,
    state: 'same-random-unique-string',
    redirect_uri: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/reddit/callback'
  };

  try {
    // The resulting token.
    const result = await oauth2.authorizationCode.getToken(options);

    // Exchange for the access token.
    const token = oauth2.accessToken.create(result);

    return res.status(200).json(token);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Access Token Error', error.message);
    return res.status(500).json('Authentication failed');
  }
});

With SimpleOAuth2Reddit

const simpleOAuth2Reddit = require('simple-oauth2-reddit');

const reddit = simpleOAuth2Reddit.create({
  clientId: process.env.REDDIT_APP_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.REDDIT_APP_SECRET,
  callbackURL: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/reddit/callback',
  state: 'random-unique-string'
});

// Ask the user to authorize.
router.get('/auth/reddit', reddit.authorize);

// Exchange the token for the access token.
router.get('/auth/reddit/callback', reddit.accessToken, (req, res) => {
  return res.status(200).json(req.token);
});