Passport-Xing

Passport strategy for authenticating with Xing using the OAuth 1.0a API.

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

Installation

$ npm install passport-xing

Usage

In order to use this strategy please make sure your Xing application has at least the App User Details access rights. This access rights can be set if a production key is generated on the Xing Developer site.

Configure Strategy

The Xing authentication strategy authenticates users using a Xing account and OAuth tokens. The strategy requires a verify callback, which accepts these credentials and calls done providing a user, as well as options specifying a consumer key, consumer secret, and callback URL.

passport.use(new XingStrategy({
    consumerKey: XING_API_KEY,
    consumerSecret: XING_SECRET_KEY,
    callbackURL: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/xing/callback"
  },
  function(token, tokenSecret, profile, done) {
    User.findOrCreate({ xingId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
      return done(err, user);
    });
  }
));

Authenticate Requests

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

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

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

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

Profile Fields

The Xing profile is very rich, and may contain a lot of information. The strategy can be configured with a profileFields parameter which specifies a list of fields your application needs. For example, to fetch the user's ID, name and email address, configure strategy like this.

passport.use(new XingStrategy({
    // clientID, clientSecret and callbackURL
    profileFields: ['id', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'active_email']
  },
  // verify callback
));

by default the following fields will be fetched form Xing: id,first_name,last_name,display_name,active_email,page_name,permalink,gender,photo_urls,birth_date

Examples

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

Tests

$ npm install
$ make test

Credits

• Jared Hanson
• Janett Michaylow
• Pascal Bach

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2011 Jared Hanson
Copyright (c) 2012 Janett Michaylow
Copyright (c) 2013 Pascal Bach

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