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Twitter Login

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

Setup

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

git clone https://github.com/dghubble/gologin.git
cd gologin/examples/github

Obtain a Twitter application consumer key/secret from the developer portal.

Example App

main.go shows an example web app that issues a client-side cookie session. Pass the consumer key/secret as arguments or set the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET environment variables.

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

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.