
How To Add Twitter Social Login Button
Purpose
Hi there! In this post, we’ll show you how easy it is to add a Twitter login button to your app or website 🙂
We’ve been told that this is the simplest Javascript step-by-step guide with full working code (< 15 lines) to create a Social Login Button for Twitter!
Outcome
Fully Functional Code
To demonstrate the simplicity of this solution, let us look at the final code we create. You can try out the code instantly here: https://jsfiddle.net/a787Lkq2/1/
HTML
<a id="twitter-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-twitter">
<i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> Sign in with Twitter
</a>
CSS
None
JS
$('#twitter-button').on('click', function() {
// Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
OAuth.initialize('gZeK0rjdjMpH70JACRM_kaKLUIc');
// Use popup for OAuth
OAuth.popup('twitter').then(twitter => {
console.log(twitter);
// Retrieves user data from oauth provider
console.log(twitter.me());
});
})
External Resources
- jQuery: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
- oauth.io JS: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js
- Bootstrap: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css
- Font-Aweseome: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Bootstrap-social: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css
General Steps
- Create Twitter app
- Create OAuth.io account
- Link Twitter app keys to oauth.io account
- Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key
1. Create Twitter app
Goto https://apps.twitter.com/ and click ‘Sign in’ on the top right.
If you are not yet logged in to Twitter, you will be prompted to.
Click on ‘Create App’.
Fill out the form with your details. The website should be https://oauth.io and the Callback URL should be https://oauth.io/auth
Click to agree to the Developer Agreement and then click ‘Create your Twitter application’
You have successfully created your Twitter app. Click on ‘manage keys and access tokens’.
Here you have the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret which you need to add to your OAuth.io dashboard.
2. Create OAuth.io Account
Create an account at https://oauth.io/signup.
On the main dashboard, click on ‘Integrated APIs’ on the left menu.
On the ‘Integration APIs’ dashboard, click ‘Add APIs’.
Select ‘Twitter’ as the OAuth provider that you want to add.
3. Link Twitter app keys to oauth.io account
From your Twitter app page, copy the Twitter ‘Consumer Key’ and ‘Consumer Secret’ that you noted earlier into ‘client_id’, and ‘client_secret’ fields, respectively and then click ‘Save’.
Click on ‘Try Auth’ to see if you have configured oauth.io to access your Twitter app correctly.
4. Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key
Host the code below on your server. If you have no server yet, you can test the code here: https://jsfiddle.net/a787Lkq2/1/
<html>
<header>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css">
</header>
<body>
<a id="twitter-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-twitter">
<i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> Sign in with Twitter
</a>
<script>
$('#twitter-button').on('click', function() {
// Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
OAuth.initialize('YOUR_OAUTH_KEY');
// Use popup for OAuth
OAuth.popup('twitter').then(twitter => {
console.log(twitter);
// Retrieves user data from oauth provider
console.log(twitter.me());
});
})
</script>
</body>
</html>
Should you have any further questions, just ask our team on our live chat.