Passport-Reddit

Passport strategy for authenticating with Reddit using the OAuth 2.0 API.

This module lets you authenticate using Reddit in your Node.js applications. By plugging into Passport, Reddit authentication can be easily and unobtrusively integrated into any application or framework that supports Connect-style middleware, including Express.

Install

$ npm install passport-reddit

Usage

Configure Strategy

The Reddit authentication strategy authenticates users using a Reddit 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 client ID, client secret, and callback URL.

passport.use(new RedditStrategy({
    clientID: REDDIT_CONSUMER_KEY,
    clientSecret: REDDIT_CONSUMER_SECRET,
    callbackURL: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/reddit/callback"
  },
  function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
    User.findOrCreate({ redditId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
      return done(err, user);
    });
  }
));

Authenticate Requests

Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the 'reddit' strategy, to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.get('/auth/reddit', function(req, res, next){
  passport.authenticate('reddit', {
    duration: 'permanent',
  })(req, res, next);
});

app.get('/auth/reddit/callback', function(req, res, next){
  passport.authenticate('reddit', {
    successRedirect: '/',
    failureRedirect: '/login'
  })(req, res, next);
});

duration option on authenticate call

This strategy supportsduration option on authenticate call, to request an indefinite authorization as opposed to 1 hour default.
Possible values: permanent and temporary (1 hour).

Defined in the official Reddit OAuth spec

Examples

For a complete, working example, refer to the login example.

Tests

$ npm install --dev
$ make test

Credits

• Jared Hanson
• Dmytro Soltys
• Brian Partridge

License

The MIT License

Original work Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Jared Hanson <http://jaredhanson.net/>

Modified work Copyright (c) 2013 Dmytro Soltys <http://slotos.net/>

Modified work Copyright (c) 2013 Brian Partridge <http://brianpartridge.com/>