Meteor Acccounts Twitch

Twitch account login for meteor

This is a login package using twitch for meteor. It lets users on your website login with their twitch account by adding a single button (provided by the packlage).

Install

cd <your-meteor-project>

meteor add service-configuration

meteor add alexbeauchemin:accounts-twitch

Setup and Usage

1. Register your app with Twitch Developer Site at following url- http://www.twitch.tv/kraken/oauth2/clients/new

2. Fill out the given form but make sure that redirect url as shown as follows-

OAuth redirect_uri:<your-server-domain>:<port>/_oauth/twitch?close

For e.g.redirect url for localhost : http://localhost:3000/_oauth/twitch?close

3. After registration, note down the client id and client secret.

4. In your app, create the accounts.js, put following code inside <your-app-directory>/server/accounts.js with your client id and client secret

   ServiceConfiguration.configurations.remove({
     service: "twitch"
   });
   ServiceConfiguration.configurations.insert({
     service: "twitch",
     clientId: "<your-client-id>",
     redirectUri: Meteor.absoluteUrl() + '_oauth/twitch?close',
     secret: "<your-client-secret>"
   });
   

5. Add the default twitch login button by adding this in your page

    {{>twitchLoginButton}}

or add this code on the click event of your custom button

      Meteor.loginWithTwitch(function (err) {
          if (err) console.log('login failed: ' + err)
      });

if you want specific permissions, add the scope as an option

      var scope = ['user_read', 'user_blocks_read', 'user_subscriptions'];

      Meteor.loginWithTwitch({requestPermissions: scope}, function (err) {
          if (err) console.log('login failed: ' + err)
      });

Now you should be able to create and account and login with Twitch