Login with Twitter

What You'll Need

Backbench account - Sign Up, the personal account will always remain free to use.
Twitter Developer account- Apply for a Developer account.

Prerequisites for the app

Sign In to backbench, and create or use a bench.
Start by creating a new app on twitter, enter a valid callback url in below format, https://USERID-BENCHID.backbench.io/cb ( found in Endpoints section of Backbench. )
Select Enable Sign In with Twitter at Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter and hit save.
Keep a note of following parameter's from twitter app's dashboard.
```
consumer_key, consumer_secret, callback_url
```

Demo

https://mybench-bbsamples.backbench.io/twitter.html

Frontend

Create a html for Twitter's login in File manager section. (note: Do not forget to enable File manager from endpoint's section)

twitter.html


<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <h1> login using Google</h1><br><br>
  <a href="/login">Login with witter</a>
</body>
</html>

Backend

Create a module login.js for Node, login for BBLANG. Replace consumer_key, consumer_secret, and callback_url.

var request = require("request");

exports.endpoint = function(req, cb){
    var ckey = "************************"; 
    request({
        url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
        oauth: {
            callback: "https://mybench-samples.backbench.io/cb",
            consumer_key: ckey,
            consumer_secret: "*************************************************"
        }
    }, function(err, resp, body){
        var temp = body.split("&")
        var oauth_token = temp[0].split("=")[1]
        var oauth_token_secret = temp[1].split("=")[1]
        bb.memSet(ckey, oauth_token_secret, function(err2, res2){
            if (oauth_token) {
                let redirect_uri = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token="+oauth_token
                cb(undefined, {"Location": redirect_uri })
            } else {
                cb(undefined, {"msg": 'Permission denied'})
            }
        })
    })
}

twitter:login(req)->{
    res = bb:http:post({
        url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
        oauth: {
            callback: "https://mybench-bbsamples.backbench.io/cb",
            consumer_key: "I5urvH55D1bTWqWzOXfnhVcTk",
            consumer_secret: "miVOFYODoZ4xxtKQTWuE7VpSA8IWRAkZ6zf1HCwZrdH3swYWva"
        }
    })
    oauth_token = std:split(std:split(res.body, "&")[0], "=")[1]
    oauth_token_secret = std:split(std:split(res.body, "&")[1], "=")[1]
    bb:log(oauth_token, oauth_token_secret)
    bb:mem:set(oauth_token_secret, oauth_token_secret)
    if oauth_token {
        bb:http:get({
            url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate',
            qs: {
                oauth_token: oauth_token
            },
            followAllRedirects: true
        })
    } else {
        'Permission denied'
    }
}

For Node, map login.js module to /login and for BBLANG, map twitter:login to /login in Endpoints section.

Now we'll create a function which responds after twitter redirects to /cb. Make cb.js for node and cb for bblang (twitter:callback) and map it to /cb.

cb.js

var request = require("request");

exports.endpoint = function(req, cb){
    var ckey = "*********************";
    bb.memGet(ckey, function(err, token_secret){
        request({
            method: "post",
            url: "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
            oauth: {
                consumer_key: ckey,
                consumer_secret: "********************************************",
                token: req.query.oauth_token,
                token_secret: token_secret, 
                verifier: req.query.oauth_verifier
            }
        }, function(err, resp, body){
            if (err){
                cb(err)
            }
            cb(null, {data: body})
        })
    })
}

twitter:callback(req)->{
    res = bb:http:post({
        url: "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
        oauth: {
            consumer_key: "*********************************",
            consumer_secret: "********************************************************************************************",
            token: req.query.oauth_token,
            token_secret: bb:mem:get(oauth_token_secret), 
            verifier: req.query.oauth_verifier
        }
    })
    body = std:split(res.body, "&")
    res = bb:http:get({
        url : 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=peeyu5h&count=2',
        qs : {
            screen_name: std:split(body[3], "=")[1],
            user_id: std:split(body[2], "=")[1] 
        },
        oauth : {
            consumer_key: "***************",
            consumer_secret: "**************************",
            token: std:split(body[0], "=")[1] ,
            token_secret: std:split(body[1], "=")[1] 
        },
        json : true
    })
    "<h1>My Latest Tweet</h1>"+res.body[0].text
}

For Node.js App:

Select +, in the upper right corner to create a Module. For example, say "package.json" and select CREATE or hit Enter.
Copy and paste the code module from below.

{
    "dependencies": { 
        "request": "^2.88.0"
    }
}

A package.json file lists the packages that your project depends on. allows you to specify the versions of a package that your project can use using semantic versioning rules.

Logging in

Obtaining a request token by sending a POST request to /oauth/request_token with following as headers. (if you are using nodejs request library then you can send these params in oauth param of request)

Authorization:
        OAuth oauth_callback="https://USERNAME-BENCHID.backbench.io/cb",
              oauth_consumer_key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
              oauth_consumer_secret="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

Redirect to Twitter

You'll get oauth_token in response of above. Next step is to redirect to Twitter's authentication.

https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Exchange request_token with access_token

Convert your request_token to token, by sending a POST request to /oauth/access_token, with following headers:

Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
					 oauth_consumer_secret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
                     oauth_token="NPcudxy0yU5T3tBzho7iCotZ3cnetKwcTIRlX0iwRl0",
                     oauth_token_secret="NPcudxy0yU5T3tBzho7iCotZ3cnetKwcTIRlX0iwRl0",
					 oauth_verifier="uw7NjWHT6OJ1MpJOXsHfNxoAhPKpgI8BlYDhxEjIBY"

where oauth_token and oauth_verifier you'll get as query parameter. (after twitter's redirection)

For a comprehensive guide, refer official doc https://dev.twitter.com/web/sign-in/implementing.

User Permission:

Can be changed on Twitter's app setting page.

Confirming Identity:

Once you've obtained an Token, you can start making authenticated API requests on behalf of the user by sending request.

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=peeyu5h&count=2

with header containing consumer_key, consumer_secret, token and token_secret.

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