kmck / tumblr-oauth

Do the three-legged OAuth dance

Tumblr Three-legged OAuth

This is an example of how to get do three-legged OAuth to get user tokens for the Tumblr API.

You can use this as a starting point for when you're trying to build some super cool app using tumblr.js.

Usage

1. Register a Tumblr OAuth app

2. Create a credentials.json file with the consumer_key and consumer_secret for your OAuth app.

3. Run the little express server included to get you started

   npm start

4. Hit the authorize URL on the local server, which is will be http://localhost:3000/authorize by default

5. Log in with your Tumblr account and click "Allow"

6. Voila! You now have user tokens that you can use to make authenticated requests against the Tumblr API.

How does it work?

Take a look at lib/app.js! There are some comments explaining roughly how /authorize and /callback work together to get the credentials you need to make fully authenticated requests to the Tumblr API.