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Example • Discord • GitHub • NPM

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An updated passport authentication strategy for Discord.

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

Installation

# Using npm
> npm install passport-discord-auth
# Using yarn or pnpm
> yarn/pnpm add passport-discord-auth

Usage

Importing

This library supports both typescript and javascript, with ES6 modules and CommonJS.

// ES6 modules
import { Strategy } from 'passport-discord-auth';
// CommonJS
const { Strategy } = require('passport-discord-auth');

passport.serializeUser((user, done) => {
  done(null, user);
});

passport.deserializeUser((user, done) => {
  done(null, user);
});

passport.use(
  new Strategy(
    {
      clientId: 'CLIENT_ID',
      clientSecret: 'CLIENT_SECRET',
      callbackUrl: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/discord/callback',
      scope: ['identify', 'guilds'],
    },
    // Do something with the profile
    (accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) => {
      done(null, profile);
    }
  )
);

app.get('/auth/discord', passport.authenticate('discord'));
app.get(
  '/auth/discord/callback',
  passport.authenticate('discord', {
    failureRedirect: '/auth/discord',
  }),
  (req, res) => {
    res.redirect('/');
  }
);

Example endpoint that returns the authenticated user:

app.get('/user', (req, res) => {
  if (req.isAuthenticated()) {
    res.json(req.user);
  } else {
    res.status(401).json({ message: 'Unauthorized' });
  }
});

Scope

You can choose to import the Scope enum and use it to specify the scopes you want to request from the user or you can use the string literals.

Example:

import { Scope } from 'passport-discord-auth';

// ...

passport.use(
  new Strategy(
    {
      // ...
      scope: [Scope.Identify, Scope.Guilds, Scope.Email],
    }
    // ...
  )
);

Available scopes:

• Scope.ActivitiesRead or activities.read - Allows your app to fetch data from a user's "Now Playing/Recently Played" list — not currently available for apps.
• Scope.ActivitiesWrite or activities.write - Allows your app to update a user's activity - not currently available for apps (NOT REQUIRED FOR GAMESDK ACTIVITY MANAGER).
• Scope.ApplicationBuildsRead or applications.builds.read - Allows your app to read build data for a user's applications.
• Scope.ApplicationBuildsUpload or applications.builds.upload - Allows your app to upload/update builds for a user's applications - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.ApplicationsCommands or applications.commands - Allows your app to use commands in a guild.
• Scope.ApplicationsCommandsUpdate or applications.commands.update - Allows your app to update its commands using a Bearer token - client credentials grant only.
• Scope.ApplicationsCommandsPermissionsUpdate or applications.commands.permissions.update - Allows your app to update permissions for its commands in a guild a user has permissions to.
• Scope.ApplicationsEntitlements or applications.entitlements - Allows your app to read entitlements for a user's applications.
• Scope.ApplicationsStoreUpdate or applications.store.update - Allows your app to read and update store data (SKUs, store listings, achievements, etc.) for a user's applications.
• Scope.Bot or bot - For oauth2 bots, this puts the bot in the user's selected guild by default.
• Scope.Connections or connections - Allows /users/@me/connections to return linked third-party accounts.
• Scope.DmRead or dm_channels.read - Allows your app to see information about the user's DMs and group DMs - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.Email or email - Enables /users/@me to return an email.
• Scope.GdmJoin or gdm.join - Allows your app to join users to a group dm.
• Scope.Guilds or guilds - Allows /users/@me/guilds to return basic information about all of a user's guilds.
• Scope.GuildsJoin or guilds.join - Allows /guilds/{guild.id}/members/{user.id} to be used for joining users to a guild.
• Scope.GuildMembersRead or guilds.members.read - Allows /users/@me/guilds/{guild.id}/member to return a user's member information in a guild.
• Scope.Identify or identify - Allows /users/@me without email.
• Scope.MessagesRead or messages.read - For local rpc server api access, this allows you to read messages from all client channels (otherwise restricted to channels/guilds your app creates).
• Scope.RelationshipsRead or relationships.read - Allows your app to know a user's friends and implicit relationships - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.RoleConnectionsWrite or role_connections.write - Allows your app to update a user's connection and metadata for the app.
• Scope.Rpc or rpc - For local rpc server access, this allows you to control a user's local Discord client - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.RpcActivitiesUpdate or rpc.activities.update - For local rpc server access, this allows you to update a user's activity - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.RpcNotificationsRead or rpc.notifications.read - For local rpc server access, this allows you to receive notifications pushed out to the user - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.RpcVoiceRead or rpc.voice.read - For local rpc server access, this allows you to read a user's voice settings and listen for voice events - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.RpcVoiceWrite or rpc.voice.write - For local rpc server access, this allows you to update a user's voice settings - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.Voice or voice - Allows your app to connect to voice on user's behalf and see all the voice members - requires Discord approval.
• Scope.WebhookIncoming or webhook.incoming - This generates a webhook that is returned in the oauth token response for authorization code grants.