Passport strategy for authenticating with Stack Exchange access tokens using the OAuth 2.0 API.
This module lets you authenticate using Stack Exchange in your Node.js applications. By plugging into Passport, Stack Exchange authentication can be easily and unobtrusively integrated into any application or framework that supports Connect-style middleware, including Express.
npm install passport-stack-exchange-token
The Stack Exchange authentication strategy authenticates users using a Stack Exchange (Stackoverflow)
account and OAuth 2.0 tokens. The strategy requires a verify
callback, which
accepts these credentials and calls done
providing a user, as well as
options
specifying a app ID and app secret.
var StackExchangeTokenStrategy = require('passport-stack-exchange-token').Strategy;
passport.use(new StackExchangeTokenStrategy({
clientID: STACK_EXCHANGE_CLIENT_ID,
clientSecret: STACK_EXCHANGE_CLIENT_SECRET,
stackAppsKey: STACK_EXCHANGE_APPS_KEY,
site: 'stackoverflow'
},
function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
User.findOrCreate({ stackExchangeId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
return done(err, user);
});
}
));
Use passport.authenticate('stack-exchange-token')
to authenticate requests.
router.get('/auth/stack-exchange/token', passport.authenticate('stack-exchange-token'),
function(req, res) {
res.send(req.user);
});
GET request need to have access_token
and optionally the refresh_token
in either the query string or set as a header. If a POST is being preformed they can also be included in the body of the request.
Copyright (c) 2017 Nazar Mozol