zephiransas / twitter-oauth-tunnel

OAuth2 tunnel server for twitter oauth

Alexa Twitter OAuth account linking example

This repo contains a simple web app for account linking a twitter user with an alexa skill. live at: https://alexa-twitter-airport-info.herokuapp.com/

Skill Configuration

1. Upload the skill code contained in the skill directory to a new AWS Lambda instance. For instructions on how to set up a Lambda instance, refer to : https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/developing-alexa-skills-locally-with-nodejs-deploying-your-skill-to-staging/
2. Set up a new skill instance for the skill at https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skills/list called 'Tweeter'. Refer to the Readme in the /skill directory for details.
3. On the configuration page, select "Yes" for Account Linking.
4. Enter https://localhost:3000/oauth/request_token for Authorization URL.
5. Take note of the vendorId value under "Redirect URL". Copy this value, and update the VENDOR_ID attribute in the .env.example file

Server Setup

1. Register a new application with Twitter. You will need to register a twitter developer account to do this.
2. Copy the consumer key and consumer secret values, and update the respective values in .env.example.
3. Copy .env.example to .env
4. The example uses ruby 2.3.0 and bundler. Install ruby 2.3.0 and ensure bundler is installed. If it is not, run gem install bundler.
5. Within the server directory, run bundle
6. within the server directory, run thin start --ssl -p 3000