Twitter Login

Login with Twitter allows users to login to any web app or mobile app with their Twitter account.

Web

Package gologin provides Go handlers for Twitter which perform the OAuth1 Authorization flow and obtain the Twitter User struct.

Getting Started

go get github.com/dghubble/gologin/twitter
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/dghubble/gologin/examples/twitter
go get .

Example App

main.go shows an example web app which uses gologin for Twitter to issue a client-side cookie session. For simplicity, no data is persisted.

Get your Twitter application's consumer key/secret from the fabric.io dashboard or the old dashboard.

Compile and run main.go from examples/twitter. Pass the key/secret as arguments to the executable

go run main.go -consumer-key=xx -consumer-secret=yy
2015/09/25 23:09:13 Starting Server listening on localhost:8080

or set the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET environment variables.

Here's what the flow looks like.

Authorization Flow

1. Clicking the "Login with Twitter" link to the login handler redirects the user to the Twitter OAuth1 Authorization page to obtain a permission grant.
2. The callback handler receives the OAuth1 callback and obtains an access token.
3. The success http.Handler is called with a Context which contains the Twitter access token and verified Twitter User struct.
4. In this example, that User is read and used to issue a signed cookie session.