Passport-Reddit-commonJS

This is a rework of the original package to use commonJS modules instead of ES6. All credits to them for making this strategy possible! This fork is not activly maintained, but will recieve an update when I need to make changes for my own projects aswell.

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-commonjs

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.

const RedditStrategy = require("passport-reddit-commonjs").Strategy

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

Credits

• Original repo
• 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/>