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Passport-Facebook

Passport strategy for authenticating with Facebook using the OAuth 2.0 API.

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

Installation

$ npm install passport-facebook

Usage

Configure Strategy

The Facebook authentication strategy authenticates users using a Facebook 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 app ID, app secret, and callback URL.

passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({
    clientID: FACEBOOK_APP_ID,
    clientSecret: FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET,
    callbackURL: "http://localhost:3000/auth/facebook/callback"
  },
  function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
    User.findOrCreate({ facebookId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
      return done(err, user);
    });
  }
));

Authenticate Requests

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

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.get('/auth/facebook',
  passport.authenticate('facebook'),
  function(req, res){
    // The request will be redirected to Facebook for authentication, so
    // this function will not be called.
  });

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

Extended Permissions

If you need extended permissions from the user, the permissions can be requested via the scope option to passport.authenticate().

For example, this authorization requests permission to the user's statuses and checkins:

app.get('/auth/facebook',
  passport.authenticate('facebook', { scope: ['user_status', 'user_checkins'] }),
  function(req, res){
    // The request will be redirected to Facebook for authentication, with
    // extended permissions.
  });

Display Mode

The display mode with which to render the authorization dialog can be set by specifying the display option. Refer to Facebook's OAuth Dialog documentation for more information.

app.get('/auth/facebook',
  passport.authenticate('facebook', { display: 'touch' }),
  function(req, res){
    // ...
  });

Profile Fields

The Facebook 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 (named by Portable Contacts convention) your application needs. For example, to fetch only user's facebook ID, name, and picture, configure strategy like this.

passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({
    // clientID, clientSecret and callbackURL
    profileFields: ['id', 'displayName', 'photos']
  },
  // verify callback
));

The profile object of verify callback will only include listed fields. If profileFields are not specified, strategy will fill the profile object with fields that facebook returns by default.

Examples

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

Issues

Facebook's OAuth 2.0 implementation has a [bug][1] in which the fragment #_=_ is appended to the callback URL. This appears to affect Firefox and Chrome, but not Safari. This fragment can be removed via client-side JavaScript, and @niftylettuce provides a suggested [workaround][2]. Developers are encouraged to direct their complaints to Facebook in an effort to get them to implement a proper fix for this issue. [1]: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/196125357123225 [2]: jaredhanson/passport-facebook#12 (comment)

Tests

$ npm install --dev
$ make test

Build Status

Credits

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Jared Hanson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.