vk-auth

Authorization in Vkontakte social network as standalone/mobile application. Allows you to get vk token with the help of PhantomJS headless browser.

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Example

Using vk-auth is easy enough; it accepts two parameters in it’s constructor (applicationId and required permissions) and provides single method for authorization:

var vkAuth = require('vk-auth')(123456, 'audio');
vkAuth.authorize('johndoe@example.com', 'password', function(err, tokenParams) {
    //do something with access token
});

Changelog

v1.0.6

• Issue with markup change on permissions page fixed
• Dependencies are updated

v1.0.5

• PhantomJS was updated to version 2

v1.0.4

• Issue with form submit fixed

v1.0.3

• Updates in VK URLs (thanks to Dmitriy)
• Error messages do not contain new line symbol

v1.0.1-1.0.2

• Fixes in readme

v1.0.0

• First release
• Small code improvements
• Tests for node.js part of module
• Daily build to check that module is still working

v0.0.6

• ‘error’ event is not emited when no listeners attached and callback is present

v0.0.5

• Should work again after VK urls updates
• Error for wrong credentials is now displayed again

v0.0.4

• PhantomJS is now started by ‘execFile’ command instead of ‘exec’

v0.0.3

• Events added

v0.0.2

• Result format changed to look the same way as vk response
• All errors including VK and wrong credentials errors are now passed through ‘err’ callback parameters

v0.0.1

• Initial module version

Constructor parameters

require(‘vk-auth’)(applicationId, permissions);

To get applicationId you need to create vk app here.

You can pass app permissions as a string or array e.g.

var permissions = 'friends,video,offline';
var anotherPermissons = [
    'wall',
    'friends'
];

To get more information about available permissions visit Application Access Permissions page

Method parameters

vkAuth.authorize(login, password, callback)

Login - user’s email or phone number

Password - user’s password

Callback(err, tokenParams) - accepts two parameters - error and token parameters

Events

You can subscribe to events emitted by authorization module instead of passing callback.
There are two events available:

“auth” - Authorization succeed

“error” - Error happened during authorization

Example:

var vkAuth = require('vk-auth')(123456, 'audio');
vkAuth.authorize('johndoe@example.com', 'password');
vkAuth.on('error', function(err) {
    console.log(err);
});
vkAuth.on('auth', function(tokenParams) {
    //do something with token parameters
})

Token

Here is an example of received token parameters:

{
    access_token: 801edadc2f0d1898676e2804ec50b9990801dcd3fd5e9bc197898c19b9d796596d79c03278489f3e88
    expires_in: 86400
    user_id: 49923862
}

To read more about this parameters go to Client Application Authorization page.

Сontribution

Feel free to ask questions and post ideas, as well as send pull requests.
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License: MIT