oauth-methods.js

Set of stateless request methods to create, check, reset, refresh, and delete user access tokens for OAuth and GitHub Apps

• Usage
  • OAuth Web Flow
  • OAuth Device Flow
• Methods
  • getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl()
  • exchangeWebFlowCode()
  • createDeviceCode()
  • exchangeDeviceCode()
  • checkToken()
  • refreshToken()
  • scopeToken()
  • resetToken()
  • deleteToken()
  • deleteAuthorization()
• Authentication object
  • OAuth APP authentication
  • GitHub App with non-expiring user authentication
  • GitHub App with expiring user authentication
• Types
• Contributing
• License

The OAuth endpoints related to user access tokens are not all part of GitHub's REST API and they behave slightly different. The methods exported by `@octokit/normalize the differences so you don't have to.

Usage

Browsers

@octokit/oauth-methods is not meant for browser usage.

Some of the methods will work, but others do not have CORS headers enabled and will fail (exchangeWebFlowCode(), createDeviceCode(), exchangeDeviceCode(), refreshToken()). Also the Client Secret should not be exposed to clients as it can be used for a Person-in-the-middle attack.

Node

Install with npm install @octokit/core @octokit/oauth-methods

import {
  exchangeWebFlowCode,
  createDeviceCode,
  exchangeDeviceCode,
  checkToken,
  refreshToken,
  scopeToken,
  resetToken,
  deleteToken,
  deleteAuthorization,
} from "@octokit/oauth-methods";

[!IMPORTANT] As we use conditional exports, you will need to adapt your tsconfig.json by setting "moduleResolution": "node16", "module": "node16".

See the TypeScript docs on package.json "exports". See this helpful guide on transitioning to ESM from @sindresorhus

OAuth Web Flow

After a user granted access to an OAuth App or GitHub App on Step 1 of GitHub's OAuth Web Flow, they get redirected to a URL controlled by your app with a ?code=... query parameter.

You can exchange that code for a user access token as described in Step 2 of GitHub's OAuth Web Flow.

Setting clientType is required because there are slight differences between "oauth-app" and "github-app". Most importantly, GitHub Apps do not support scopes.

const { data, authentication } = await exchangeWebFlowCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  code: "code123",
  scopes: ["repo"],
});

data is the raw response data. authentication is a User Authentication object.

OAuth Device Flow

In step 1 of GitHub's OAuth Device Flow, you need to create a device and user code

const {
  data: { device_code, user_code, verification_uri },
} = await createDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  scopes: ["repo"],
});

In step 2 of GitHub's OAuth Device Flow, the user has to enter user_code on verification_uri (https://github.com/login/device unless you use GitHub Enterprise Server).

Once the user entered the code and granted access, you can exchange the device_code for a user access token in step 3 of GitHub's OAuth Device Flow

const { data, authentication } = await exchangeDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  code: device_code,
});

data is the raw response data. authentication is a User Authentication object.

Methods

getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl()

This is a wrapper around @octokit/oauth-authorization-url that accepts a request option instead of baseUrl for consistency with the other OAuth methods. getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl() is a synchronous method and does not send any request.

const { url } = getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  scopes: ["repo"],
});

Options

Only relevant if clientType is set to "oauth-app".

An array of scope names (or: space-delimited list of scopes). If not provided, scope defaults to an empty list for users that have not authorized any scopes for the application. For users who have authorized scopes for the application, the user won't be shown the OAuth authorization page with the list of scopes. Instead, this step of the flow will automatically complete with the set of scopes the user has authorized for the application. For example, if a user has already performed the web flow twice and has authorized one token with user scope and another token with repo scope, a third web flow that does not provide a scope will receive a token with user and repo scope.

Defaults to [].

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { url } = getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  scopes: ["repo"],
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

The getWebFlowAuthorizationUrl method is synchronous and returns an object with the following properties.

Only set if options.clientType is set to "oauth-app".

Returns an array of strings. Returns options.scopes if it was set and turns the string into an array if a string was passed, otherwise [].

exchangeWebFlowCode()

const { data, authentication } = await exchangeWebFlowCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  code: "code123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await exchangeWebFlowCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  code: "code123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST /login/oauth/access_token (JSON) with an additional authentication key which is the authentication object.

createDeviceCode()

const { data, authentication } = await createDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  scopes: ["repo"],
});

Options

Only permitted if clientType is set to "oauth-app". GitHub Apps do not support scopes.

Array of scope names you want to request for the user access token.

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data } = await createDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  scopes: ["repo"],
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST https://github.com/login/device/code (JSON).

exchangeDeviceCode()

const { data, authentication } = await exchangeDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  code: "code123",
});

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await exchangeDeviceCode({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  code: "code123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

checkToken()

const { data, authentication } = await checkToken({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await checkToken({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST /applications/{client_id}/token with an additional authentication key which is the authentication object. Note that the authentication object will not include the keys for expiring authentication.

refreshToken()

Expiring user access tokens are currently in preview. You can enable them for any of your GitHub apps. OAuth Apps do not support expiring user access tokens

When a user access token expires it can be refreshed using a refresh token. Refreshing a token invalidates the current user access token.

const { data, authentication } = await refreshToken({
  clientType: "github-app",
  clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  refreshToken: "r1.refreshtoken123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await refreshToken({
  clientType: "github-app",
  clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  refreshToken: "r1.refreshtoken123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST /login/oauth/access_token with an additional authentication key which is the GitHub App expiring user authentication.

scopeToken()

const { data, authentication } = await scopeToken({
  clientType: "github-app",
  clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
  target: "octokit",
  repositories: ["oauth-methods.js"],
  permissions: {
    issues: "write",
  },
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await scopeToken({
  clientType: "github-app",
  clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef",
  token: "usertoken123",
  target: "octokit",
  repositories: ["oauth-methods.js"],
  permissions: {
    issues: "write",
  },
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST /applications/{client_id}/token/scoped with an additional authentication key which is the new authentication object.

resetToken()

const { data, authentication } = await resetToken({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await resetToken({
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "secret",
  token: "usertoken123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for POST /applications/{client_id}/token with an additional authentication key which is the new authentication object.

deleteToken()

const { status } = await deleteToken({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await deleteToken({
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "secret",
  token: "usertoken123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for DELETE /applications/{client_id}/token (which is an empty 204 response).

deleteAuthorization()

const { status } = await deleteAuthorization({
  clientType: "oauth-app",
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "1234567890abcdef12347890abcdef12345678",
  token: "usertoken123",
});

Options

import { request } from "@octokit/request";
const { data, authentication } = await deleteAuthorization({
  clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234",
  clientSecret: "secret",
  token: "usertoken123",
  request: request.defaults({
    baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3",
  }),
});

Resolves with an @octokit/request response object for DELETE /applications/{client_id}/grant (which is an empty 204 response).

Authentication object

The authentication object returned by the methods have one of three formats.

1. OAuth APP authentication token
2. GitHub APP non-expiring user authentication token with expiring disabled
3. GitHub APP user authentication token with expiring enabled

The differences are

1. scopes is only present for OAuth Apps
2. refreshToken, expiresAt, refreshTokenExpiresAt are only present for GitHub Apps, and only if token expiration is enabled

Note that the clientSecret may not be set when using exchangeDeviceCode() as clientSecret is not required for the OAuth device flow.

OAuth APP authentication

GitHub App with non-expiring user authentication

GitHub App with expiring user authentication

Types

import {
  OAuthAppAuthentication,
  GitHubAppAuthentication,
  GitHubAppAuthenticationWithExpiration,
  GetWebFlowAuthorizationUrlOAuthAppOptions,
  GetWebFlowAuthorizationUrlGitHubAppOptions,
  GetWebFlowAuthorizationUrlOAuthAppResult,
  GetWebFlowAuthorizationUrlGitHubAppResult,
  CheckTokenOAuthAppOptions,
  CheckTokenGitHubAppOptions,
  CheckTokenOAuthAppResponse,
  CheckTokenGitHubAppResponse,
  ExchangeWebFlowCodeOAuthAppOptions,
  ExchangeWebFlowCodeGitHubAppOptions,
  ExchangeWebFlowCodeOAuthAppResponse,
  ExchangeWebFlowCodeGitHubAppResponse,
  CreateDeviceCodeOAuthAppOptions,
  CreateDeviceCodeGitHubAppOptions,
  CreateDeviceCodeDeviceTokenResponse,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeOAuthAppOptionsWithoutClientSecret,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeOAuthAppOptions,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeGitHubAppOptionsWithoutClientSecret,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeGitHubAppOptions,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeOAuthAppResponse,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeOAuthAppResponseWithoutClientSecret,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeGitHubAppResponse,
  ExchangeDeviceCodeGitHubAppResponseWithoutClientSecret,
  RefreshTokenOptions,
  RefreshTokenResponse,
  ScopeTokenOptions,
  ScopeTokenResponse,
  ResetTokenOAuthAppOptions,
  ResetTokenGitHubAppOptions,
  ResetTokenOAuthAppResponse,
  ResetTokenGitHubAppResponse,
  DeleteTokenOAuthAppOptions,
  DeleteTokenGitHubAppOptions,
  DeleteTokenResponse,
  DeleteAuthorizationOAuthAppOptions,
  DeleteAuthorizationGitHubAppOptions,
  DeleteAuthorizationResponse,
} from "@octokit/oauth-methods";

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

MIT