Wpcom-browser-auth NPM

wpcom-browser-auth

Browser authentication logic for the WordPress.com REST API

This module provides authentication logic for web browsers to authenticate against the WordPress.com REST API.

You must create a WordPress.com Application, with the "Native" app type. Then you may pass the client_id of your application to the redirect() function.

If your Redirect URL page, you invoke the response() function to get the parsed access token (or error object if the user refused access), with which you can do API calls against the REST API.

Installation

Install wpcom-browser-auth using npm:

$ npm install wpcom-browser-auth

Example

<html>
  <body>
    <script src="wpcom-browser-auth.js"></script>
    <script>
      var auth = wpcomBrowserAuth.response();
      if (auth) {
        // invoked as part of the Redirect URL
        if (auth.error) {
          // user denied WordPress.com access
        } else {
          // user granted access to WordPress.com
          var wpcom = new WPCOM(auth.access_token);
          var site = wpcom.site(auth.site_id);
        }
      } else {
        // no auth token information, redirect to OAuth page
        wpcomBrowserAuth.redirect(client_id);
      }
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

See the example file for a more complete example.

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1.0.0

10 years ago