Last Updated: October 17, 2018

· data_me

Javascript Twitter Social Login Bootstrap Button for OAuth

#javascript

#oauth

#social login bootstrap

Purpose

The simplest Javascript step-by-step guide with full working code (< 15 lines) to create a Social Login Bootstrap Button for Twitter on any webpage using OAuth.io

Outcome

Fully Functional Code

To demonstrate the simplicity of this solution, let us look at the final code we create. You can try out the code instantly here: https://jsfiddle.net/s3egg5h7/43/

HTML

<a id="twitter-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-twitter">
  <i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> Sign in with Twitter
</a>

CSS

None

JS

$('#twitter-button').on('click', function() {
  // Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
  OAuth.initialize('YOUR_OAUTH_KEY');
  // Use popup for OAuth
  OAuth.popup('twitter').then(twitter => {
    console.log('twitter:', twitter);
    // Prompts 'welcome' message with User's email on successful login
    // #me() is a convenient method to retrieve user data without requiring you
    // to know which OAuth provider url to call
    twitter.me().then(data => {
      console.log('data:', data);
      alert('Twitter says your email is:' + data.email + ".\nView browser 'Console Log' for more details");
    });
    // Retrieves user data from OAuth provider by using #get() and
    // OAuth provider url    
    twitter.get('/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json?include_email=true').then(data => {
      console.log('self data:', data);
    })    
  });
})

External Resources

jQuery: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
oauth.io JS: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js
Bootstrap: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css
Font-Aweseome: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
Bootstrap-social: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css

General Steps

CreateTwitter app
Create OAuth.io account
Link Twitter app keys to oauth.io account
Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

1. Create Twitter app

Goto https://apps.twitter.com/ and click 'Sign in' on the top right.

If you are not yet logged in to Twitter, you will be prompted to.

Click on ‘Create App’.

Fill out the form with your details. The website should be https://oauth.io and the Callback URL should be https://oauth.io/auth

Click to agree to the Developer Agreement and then click ‘Create your Twitter application’

You have successfully created your Twitter app. Click on ‘manage keys and access tokens’.

Here you have the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret which you need to add to your OAuth.io dashboard.

2. Create OAuth.io Account

Create an account at https://oauth.io/signup.

On the main dashboard, add the domain name of the webpage where you will the social login button into ‘Domain & URL whitelist’

Click on 'Integrated APIs' on the left menu.

On the 'Integration APIs' dashboard, click 'Add APIs'.

Select 'Twitter' as the OAuth provider that you want to add.

3. Link Twitter app keys to oauth.io account

From your Twitter app page, copy the Twitter ‘Consumer Key’ and 'Consumer Secret' that you noted earlier into 'clientid', and 'clientsecret' fields, respectively and then click 'Save'.

Click on 'Try Auth' to see if you have configured oauth.io to access your Twitter app correctly.

4. Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

Host the code below on your server. If you have no server yet, you can test the code here: https://jsfiddle.net/s3egg5h7/43/