hydra-newmedia / passport-headerapikey

Api key authentication strategy for Passport, which only handles headers (not body fields).
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Passport-HeaderAPIKey

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Passport strategy for authenticating with a apikey.

This module lets you authenticate using a apikey in your Node.js applications which is used to build rest apis. By plugging into Passport, apikey authentication can be easily and unobtrusively integrated into any application or framework that supports Connect-style middleware, including Express.

Installation

$ npm install passport-headerapikey

Usage

Configure Strategy

The api key authentication strategy authenticates users using a apikey. The strategy requires a verify callback, which accepts these credentials and calls done providing a user.

    const HeaderAPIKeyStrategy = require('passport-headerapikey').HeaderAPIKeyStrategy

    passport.use(new HeaderAPIKeyStrategy(
      { header: 'Authorization', prefix: 'Api-Key ' },
      false,
      function(apikey, done) {
        User.findOne({ apikey: apikey }, function (err, user) {
          if (err) { return done(err); }
          if (!user) { return done(null, false); }
          return done(null, user);
        });
      }
    ));

Authenticate Requests

Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the 'headerapikey' strategy, to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.post('/api/authenticate', 
  passport.authenticate('headerapikey', { session: false, failureRedirect: '/api/unauthorized' }),
  function(req, res) {
    res.json({ message: "Authenticated" })
  });

API

Constructor
new HeaderAPIKeyStrategy(header, passReqToCallback, verify);

Arguments:

Examples

curl -v --header "Authorization: Api-Key asdasjsdgfjkjhg" http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/authenticate

Contributing

Clone the repo, then

npm install

and here we go. Develop your new features or fixes, test it using npm test and create a pull request.

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