@oauth-everything/passport-patreon

A Passport strategy for authenticating with Patreon using OAuth 2.0 and the Patreon API v2.

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

Install

$ npm install @oauth-everything/passport-patreon

Configure Strategy

The Patreon authentication strategy authenticates users using a Patreon account and OAuth 2.0 tokens. The app ID and secret obtained when creating an application are supplied as options when creating the strategy. The strategy also requires a verify callback, which receives the access token and optional refresh token, as well as profile which contains the authenticated user's Patreon profile. The verify callback must call cb providing a user to complete authentication.

passport.use(new Strategy(
    {
        clientID: PATREON_APP_ID,
        clientSecret: PATREON_APP_SECRET,
        callbackURL: "http://localhost:3000/auth/patreon/callback"
    },
    (accessToken: string, refreshToken: string, profile: Profile, cb: VerifyCallback<User>) => {

        User.findOrCreate({ patreonId: profile.id }, (err: Error, user: User) => {
            return cb(err, user);
        });
    }
));

Authenticate Requests

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

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.get('/auth/patreon',
  passport.authenticate('patreon'));

app.get('/auth/patreon/callback',
  passport.authenticate('patreon', { failureRedirect: '/login' }),
  function(req, res) {
    // Successful authentication, redirect home.
    res.redirect('/');
  });

License

The MPL v2 License