Implements a Client-Side flow for login with twitter, similar to one provided by Facebook and Google. To read the Flow of implementing Login with Twitter, Read here
- Clone as a Git repository
git clone https://github.com/mdemblani/twitter-login-client.git
- Install as a node_module
npm i twitter-login-client --save OR npm install twitter-login-client --save
- Install as Bower Component
bower install <package> --save
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To Include the Script, add the following:
<script src="link to twitter-client code"></script>
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The following snippet is used to initalize the twitter-client library
window.twitterInit = = function () { twttr.init({ api_key: 'TWITTER_CLIENT_ID', request_url: 'REQUEST-TOKEN-ENDPOINT' }); };
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api_key: Your twitter consumer id -
request_url: This is an endpoint in your application, that twitter-client.js would call, to receive a request_token that your application generated when communicating with twitter. The twitter-client depends on the response it receives from the application for request_token. This endpoint should implement STEP 1 in Login with Twitter. The response should have the following: -success: [Boolean] : True on Success, False on Failure -oauth_token: [String] : REQUEST_TOKEN received from twitter -message: [String] : If success is False, then contains a error message indicating the error, ignored when success is true.Note: The following tokens are mutually exclusive a.
messageb.oauth_token
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Create a file, that would be retrvied when Twitter would redirect the user to the callback url. In the file, add the following snippet in the head.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript">window.close();</script> <title>Callback Title</title> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> </head> <body></body> </html>
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twttr.init: This function is called to initalize the twitter-client library. Parameters:Options: [Object]api_key: Twitter Consumer Keyrequest_url: Application Endpoint to obtain a request token.
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twttr.connect: This function is used allow the user to login and authorize the application. Parameters:-
Callback: [Function]- The callback function accepts a single parameter, i.e. response as its arguments
The parameter would contain the following keys:
success: [Boolean] : True on Success, False on Failuremessage: [String] : If success is False, then contains a error message indicating the error, ignored when success is true.oauth_token: [String] : Contains the oauth-token, similar to the one obtained by communicating with the request_urloauth_verifier: [String] : Contains the oauth-verifier, This token would be used by your application to obtain a user access token.
Note: The following tokens are mutually exclusive a.
messageb.oauth_token,oauth_verifierEither a or b would be present at a time, not both. - The callback function accepts a single parameter, i.e. response as its arguments
The parameter would contain the following keys:
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